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Employment in Poland 2005
Bukowski, Maciej; Lewandowski, Piotr; Magda, Iga; … - EconWPA - 2005
present a comprehensive statistical and econometric analysis of employment, unemployment and participation in Poland in the … employment and participation rates. We begin with a detailed analysis of the reasons of the rapid decrease of employment and … on structural mismatch between labour demand and labour supply in Poland. We find that the employment gap between Poland …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556757
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Is Variation in Hours of Work Driven by Supply or Demand? Evidence from Finnish Manufacturing Industries
Böckerman, Petri; Jäntti, Markus - EconWPA - 2005
This paper uses panel data from 1989 to 1995 on blue-collar workers in Finnish manufacturing industries and their establishments to assess the extent to which hours of work are affected by individual or establishment characteristics - observed as well as unobserved. We argue that recent research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125720
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Effects of Business Cycles on Labour Market Assimilation of Immigrants
Aydemir, Abdurrahman - EconWPA - 2003
along with employment outcomes are explored. The study uses 19 annual cross-sections of the Survey of Consumer Finances … conditions at the time of labour market entry have adverse impacts on both labour force participation and employment. With the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408346
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Effects of Business Cycles on Labour Market Assimilation of Immigrants
Aydemir, Abdurrahman - EconWPA - 2003
along with employment outcomes are explored. The study uses 19 annual cross-sections of the Survey of Consumer Finances … conditions at the time of labour market entry have adverse impacts on both labour force participation and employment. With the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408360
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What sustains social norms and how they evolve? The case of tipping
Azar, Ofer H. - EconWPA - 2003
The paper presents a model of the evolution of social norms. When a norm is costly to follow and people do not derive benefits from following it except for avoiding social disapproval, the norm erodes over time. Tip percentages, however, increased over the years, suggesting that people derive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556145
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Skriptum: Europäisches und internationales Sozialrecht. Europäische und internationale Sozialpoltik
TAUSCH, Arno - EconWPA - 2005
LISTE EINIGER WICHTIGER ABKÜRZUNGEN 4 ZUM GELEIT 6 EINFÜHRUNG UND PROBLEMAUFRISS - INTERNATIONALE SOZIALPOLITIK BEDEUTET FÖRDERUNG DER KONVERGENZ DER LEBENSBEDINGUNGEN 7 TEIL A: SOZIALRECHT UND SOZIALPOLITIK DER EU 14 1) ENTWICKLUNGSLINIEN UND GRUNDPRINZIPIEN DER EUROPÄISCHEN SOZIALPOLITIK...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556821
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The History of Tipping - From Sixteenth-Century England to United States in the 1910s
Azar, Ofer H. - EconWPA - 2003
Tipping is a multi-billion-dollar phenomenon that challenges the traditional assumption of selfish economic agents who have no feelings and do not care about social norms. This article reviews the early history of tipping and offers an economic analysis of different aspects of tipping. Using the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556865
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Detrimental effects of sanctions on human altruism
Fehr, Ernst; Rockenbach, Bettina - EconWPA - 2003
The existence of cooperation and social order among genetically unrelated individuals is a fundamental problem in the behavioural sciences. The prevailing approaches in biology and economics view cooperation exclusively as self-interested behaviour— unrelated individuals cooperate only if they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134962
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In Search of Homo Economicus: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small- Scale Societies,
Fehr, Ernst; Henrich, Joseph; Boyd, Robert - EconWPA - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134977
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The implications of tipping for economics and management
Azar, Ofer H. - EconWPA - 2003
Tipping is a phenomenon that illustrates the importance of social norms and psychological reasons in motivating economic behavior. People tip because this is the social norm and disobeying norms results in psychological disutility. Tipping is also economically important: in the United States...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407760