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Aging and Attitudes Towards Strategic Uncertainty and Competition: An Artefactual Field Experiment in a Swiss Bank

Madies, Thierry; Villeval, Marie Claire; Wasmer, Malgorzata - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We study the attitudes of junior and senior employees towards strategic uncertainty and competition, by means of a market entry game inspired by Camerer and Lovallo (1999). Seniors exhibit higher entry rates compared to juniors, especially when earnings depend on relative performance. This...

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Education, Redistributive Taxation and Confidence

Konrad, Kai A.; Spadaro, Amedeo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We consider redistributional taxation between people with and without human capital if education is endogenous and if individuals differ in their perceptions about own ability. Those who see their ability as low like redistributive taxation because of the transfers it generates. Those who see...

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Fading Hope in the US

Ritzen, Jo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

A substantial literature claims that the strong increase in inequality over the last decade in countries such as the US would lead to a collapse of society. Fading hopes in the population seem to confirm this. The paper rejects this interpretation since the decline in hopes cannot be traced back...

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Do Women Prefer a Co-operative Work Environment?

Kuhn, Peter J.; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap: (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less pessimistic about …

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Trust in Public Institutions over the Business Cycle

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial … sector. Finally, analysis of several repeated cross-sections of confidence within U.S. states yields similar qualitative …

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Reputations, Relationships and the Enforcement of Incomplete Contracts

MacLeod, W. Bentley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper discusses the literature on the enforcement of incomplete contracts. It compares legal enforcement to enforcement via relationships and reputations. A number of mechanisms, such as the repeat purchase mechanism (Klein and Leffler (1981)) and efficiency wages (Shapiro and Stiglitz...

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Economic Integration of Intermarried Labour Migrants, Refugees and Family Migrants to Sweden: Premium or Selection?

Irastorza, Nahikari; Bevelander, Pieter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

immigrants who intramarry other immigrants in Sweden. We conduct the same analyses on three subsamples: labour migrants, refugees … Sweden. They also fully support the selection hypothesis for labour and family migrants but only partially for refugees …

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Receiving Countries' Perspectives: The Case of Sweden

Gerdes, Christer; Wadensjö, Eskil - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Sweden has made its labour market more open for labour immigration since the mid1990s: becoming member of the common … rather stable in the years after the crisis in 2008. The main explanation is most likely that the recession in Sweden was … were employed. If the present EMU crisis is spreading to Sweden the result may of course be different. …

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Gender Differences in the Effect of Residential Segregation on Workplace Segregation among Newly Arrived Immigrants

Tammaru, Tiit; Strömgren, Magnus; van Ham, Maarten; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

unique longitudinal register data from Sweden, we show that the role of residential segregation in workplace segregation …

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Immigrant Child Poverty in Scandinavia: A Panel Data Study

Galloway, Taryn Ann; Gustafsson, Björn; Pedersen, Peder J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Immigrant and native child poverty in Denmark, Norway and Sweden 1993 to 2001 is investigated using large sets of panel … Norway have an immigrant origin, and that corresponding proportion is as high as about a half in Denmark as well as in Sweden …

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