This paper examines how skill-biased growth can generate economic fragmentation (income disparities) that give rise to …-nationalist policies (which destroy productivity, compress the income distribution and promote the benefits of social affiliation). …

possible outcome reporting bias using gender differences in risk attitudes. There is a strong consensus view in the … outcome reporting bias in the risk and gender literature. We find no evidence that the likelihood of reporting about gender …

demonstrate that machine learning (ML) can automatically satisfy these conditions due to its inherent inductive bias toward …-state multiplicity. Additionally, the inductive bias provides a foundation for modeling forward-looking behavioural agents with self …

firms cannot offer long-term contracts, we find that individuals who are naive about their present bias will actually be … inefficiencies caused by their present bias. …

We analyze how agents' present bias affects optimal contracting in an infinite-horizon employment setting. The …

income in East Germany. The bias difference in labor market expectations explains part of the East-West German wage gap. …We measure individual bias in labor market expectations in German survey data and find that workers on average … pessimistic than West Germans. We find a significantly negative relationship between the pessimistic bias in job separation …

We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades …. Combining personal income tax and social security data allows us - for the first time - to offer a complete picture of the … German labor market and increasing labor supply. In the second part of the paper, we study the distribution of total income …

emphasizing apprenticeship programs. Results are robust to accounting for ability patterns and to propensity-score matching …