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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
4545 Mathieu Lefèbvre
Ferdinand M. Vieider
Marie Claire Villeval
Incentive Effects on Risk Attitude in Small Probability Prospects
Most studies on the role of incentives on risk attitude report data obtained from within-subject experimental investigations. This may however raise an issue of sequentiality of effects as later ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 109 (2), 115-120)
C91, D81, D89
4544 Erkki Koskela
Impacts of Labor Taxation with Perfectly and Imperfectly Competitive Domestic Labor Markets under Flexible Outsourcing
What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep the relative tax burden per low-skilled and high-skilled workers constant in the case of heterogenous domestic labor ...
(published in: Thomas J. Sargent and Jouko Vilmunen (eds.): Macroeconomics at the Service of Public Policy, Oxford University Press, 2012, 186-214)
E24, H22, J21, J31, J51
4543 Govert Bijwaard
Geert Ridder
A Simple GMM Estimator for the Semi-Parametric Mixed Proportional Hazard Model
Ridder and Woutersen (2003) have shown that under a weak condition on the baseline hazard there exist root-N consistent estimators of the parameters in a semiparametric Mixed Proportional Hazard ...
(published in: Journal of Econometric Methods, 2013, 2, 1-23 [PDF])
C41, C14
4541 Jackline Wahba
Yves Zenou
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Migration, Entrepreneurship and Social Capital
The aim of this paper is to investigate whether return migrants are more likely to become entrepreneurs than non-migrants. We develop a theoretical search model that puts forward the trade off faced ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2012, 42 (5), 890–903)
L26, O12, O15
4540 Armin Falk
James J. Heckman
Lab Experiments Are a Major Source of Knowledge in the Social Sciences
Laboratory experiments are a widely used methodology for advancing causal knowledge in the physical and life sciences. With the exception of psychology, the adoption of laboratory experiments has ...
(final version published in: Science, 2009, 326 (5952), 535-538)
C90, C91, C92, C93, D00
4539 Magnus Lofstrom
Does Self-Employment Increase the Economic Well-Being of Low-Skilled Workers?
Low-skilled workers do not fare well in today's skill intensive economy and their opportunities continue to diminish. Given that individuals in this challenging skill segment of the workforce are ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2013, 40 (4), 933-952)
J15, J16, J31, L26
4538 Peder J. Pedersen
Torben Dall Schmidt
Happiness in Europe: Cross-Country Differences in the Determinants of Subjective Well-Being
The purpose in the present paper is to use individual panel data in the European Community Household Panel to analyse the impact on self-reported satisfaction from a number of economic and ...
(published as 'Happiness in Europe: Cross-country differences in the determinants of satisfaction with main activity' in: Journal of Socio Economics, 2011, 40 (5), 480 - 489)
C23, D31, I31, J28
4537 Hadi Salehi Esfahani
Kamiar Mohaddes
M. Hashem Pesaran
Oil Exports and the Iranian Economy
This paper develops a long run growth model for a major oil exporting economy and derives conditions under which oil revenues are likely to have a lasting impact. This approach contrasts with the ...
(published in: Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2013, 53 (3), 221-237)
C32, C53, E17, F43, F47, Q32
4536 David Gill
Victoria L. Prowse
A Structural Analysis of Disappointment Aversion in a Real Effort Competition
We develop a novel computerized real effort task, based on moving sliders across a screen, to test experimentally whether agents are disappointment averse when they compete in a real effort ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (1), 469-503)
C91, D03
4535 Thomas K. Bauer
Stefan Bender
Alfredo R. Paloyo
Christoph M. Schmidt
Evaluating the Labor-Market Effects of Compulsory Military Service
We identify the causal effect of compulsory military service on conscripts’ subsequent labor-market outcomes by exploiting the regression-discontinuity design of the military draft in Germany during ...
(published in European Economic Review 56(4):814–829)
J31
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