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How Does Socio-Economic Status Shape a Child's Personality?
Thomas, Deckers; Armin, Falk; Fabian, Kosse; Hannah, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
children from families with higher SES are more patient, tend to be more altruistic and less likely to be risk seeking, and … and quality of time parents spend with their children, the mother's IQ and economic preferences, a child's initial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252547
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Performance Pay and Multidimensional Sorting - Productivity, Preferences and Gender
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. Subjects face the choice between a fixed and a variable payment scheme. Depending on the treatment, the variable payment is a piece rate, a tournament or a revenue-sharing scheme. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009004024
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Cluster Performance reconsidered: Structure, Linkages and Paths in the German Biotechnology Industry, 1996-2003
Häussler, Carolin; Zademach, Hans-Martin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper addresses the evolution of biotechnology clusters in Germany between 1996 and 2003, paying particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005785915