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Pension Reform, Retirement and Life-Cycle Unemployment

Jaag, Christian; Keuschnigg, Christian; Keuschnigg, Mirela - 2021

demonstrate the economic and welfare impact of recent pension reform in Austria …

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Discrimination at Young Age : Experimental Evidence from Preschool Children

Bindra, Parampreet Christopher - 2019

Discrimination is an ubiquitous phenomenon in many societies, but little is known about its origins in childhood. In a framed field experiment, we let 142 three to six-year old preschool children allocate a fixed endowment between an in-group and an out-group receiver in two domains (gender and...

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Redistribution and occupational choice in a Schumpeterian growth model

Garcίa-Peñalosa, Cecilia; Wen, Jean-François - 2004

We consider an R&D-driven endogenous growth model in which innovation is risky and agents are risk averse. Growth is determined by the occupational choice of agents who can either work in production for a wage or become entrepreneurs. In this context, we examine the impact of redistributive...

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Identity and entrepreneurship

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lüdemann, Elke - 2009

We incorporate the concept of social identity into a stylized model of occupational choice and analyze whether an individual's identity affects his or her decision to become an entrepreneur. We argue that an entrepreneurial identity results from an individual's socialization. This could be...

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A General Equilibrium Theory of Occupational Choice Under Optimistic Beliefs About Entrepreneurial Ability

Dell'Era, Michele - 2019

This paper studies the impact of optimism on occupational choice using a general equilibrium framework. The model shows that optimism has four main qualitative effects: it leads to a misallocation of talent, drives up input prices, raises the number of entrepreneurs, and makes entrepreneurs...

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Gender Differences in Persistence in a Field of Study

Kaganovič, Michail I.; Taylor, Morgan; Xiao, Ruli - 2021

Weaker retention of women in quantitatively oriented fields, particularly STEM* is widely seen in US higher education. This persistence gap is often explained by less generous grading in these fields and the conjectured tendency of female students to generally exhibit stronger “sensitivity”...

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The Effects of Professor Gender on the Post-Graduation Outcomes of Female Students

Mansour, Hani; Rees, Daniel I.; Rintala, Bryson M.; … - 2022

Although women earn approximately 50 percent of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) bachelor’s degrees, more than 70 percent of scientists and engineers are men. We explore a potential determinant of this STEM gender gap using newly collected data on the career trajectories of...

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High-Ability Influencers? The Heterogeneous Effects of Gifted Classmates

Balestra, Simone; Sallin, Aurélien; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2021

This paper examines how exposure to students identified as gifted (IQ ≥ 130) affects achievement in secondary school, enrollment in post-compulsory education, and occupational choices. By using student-level administrative data on achievement combined with psychological examination records, we...

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Morality, Altruism, and Occupation Choice : Theory and Evidence

Dhami, Sanjit S.; Wei, Mengxing; Mamidi, Pavan - 2022

We consider a private sector job that offers high-powered incentives and two public sector jobs that produce an identical public good, but only one of them offers opportunities for corruption. Our theoretical predictions relate occupation and effort choices, in these three jobs, to preferences...

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National Minimum Wage and Employment of Young Workers in the UK

Fidrmuc, Jan; Tena, J. D. - 2013

We analyze the impact of the UK national minimum wage (NMW) on the employment of young workers. The previous literature …, we find a significant and negative employment effect for male workers at 21, which we believe to be an anticipation … effect on employment of young workers, with this effect possibly occurring already well in advance of reaching the threshold …

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