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Rosholm, Michael; Toomet, Ott - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Discouragement is a process occurring during an unemployment spell. As the spell prolongs, an individual gradually realises that the returns to search can no longer outweigh search costs, and hence she may eventually leave the labour force. This is analysed theoretically in a framework of...

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The Dilemma of Delegating Search: Budgeting in Public Employment Services

Addison, John T.; Altemeyer-Bartscher, Martin; Kuhn, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

The poor performance often attributed to many public employment services may be explained in part by a delegation problem between the central office and local job centers. In markets characterized by frictions, job centers function as match-makers, linking job seekers with relevant vacancies....

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Effects of Stress on Economic Decision-Making: Evidence from Laboratory Experiments

Delaney, Liam; Fink, Günther; Harmon, Colm P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

The ways in which preferences respond to the varying stress of economic environments is a key question for behavioral economics and public policy. We conducted a laboratory experiment to investigate the effects of stress on financial decision making among individuals aged 50 and older. Using the...

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Economic Development, Novelty Consumption, and Body Weight: Evidence from the East German Transition to Capitalism

Dragone, Davide; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This paper develops a conceptual framework that can explain why economic development goes along with increases in body weight and obesity rates. We first introduce the concept of novelty consumption, which refers to an increase in food availability due to trade or innovation. Then we study how...

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IC Technology and Learning: An Impact Evaluation of Cl@ssi2.0

Checchi, Daniele; Rettore, Enrico; Girardi, Silvia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

In this paper we present a counterfactual evaluation of the effect of ICT resources at school on student achievements conducted in Italy. In 2009 156 classes at 6th grade were endowed with additional resources earmarked for purchasing ICT equipments only. By selecting an equivalent number of...

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Child Labor and Learning

Emerson, Patrick M.; Ponczek, Vladimir; Portela Souza, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper investigates the impact of working while in school on learning outcomes through the use of a unique micro … learning outcomes is addressed through the use of a difference-in-difference estimator and it is shown that the results are … robust. A negative and significant effect of working on learning outcomes in both math and Portuguese is found. The effects …

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Cognitive Ability, Character Skills, and Learning to Play Equilibrium: A Level-k Analysis

Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

understand better how subjects with different cognitive abilities learn differently, we estimate a structural model of learning … ability to that of character skills, and find that both cognition and personality affect behavior and learning. More agreeable …

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The Empirics of Agglomeration Economies

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Gobillon, Laurent - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We propose an integrated framework to discuss the empirical literature on the local determinants of agglomeration effects. We start by presenting the theoretical mechanisms that ground individual and aggregate empirical specifications. We gradually introduce static effects, dynamic effects, and...

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Inequality of Learning in Industrialised Countries

Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

investigate where inequality is greatest, the association between inequality in learning and average levels of learning, the …

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Dynamic Incentive Contracts under Parameter Uncertainty

Prat, Julien; Jovanovic, Boyan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We analyze a long-term contracting problem involving common uncertainty about a parameter capturing the productivity of the relationship, and featuring a hidden action for the agent. We develop an approach that works for any utility function when the parameter and noise are normally distributed...

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