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Imperfect Monitoring of Job Search : Structural Estimation and Policy Design

Cockx, Bart - 2017

We build and estimate a non-stationary structural job search model that incorporates the main stylized features of a typical job search monitoring scheme in unemployment insurance (UI) and acknowledges that search effort and requirements are measured imperfectly. Based on Belgian data,...

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Worker Identity, Employment Fluctuations and Stabilization Policy

Snower, Dennis J. - 2013

This paper provides a model of "social hysteresis" whereby long, deep recessions demotivate workers and thereby lead them to change their work ethic. In switching from a pro-work to an anti-work identity, their incentives to seek and retain work fall and consequently their employment chances...

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Behavioral Economics and the Value of a Statistical Life

Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2019

There are many possible connections between VSL and behavioral economics. A list of topics includes endowment effects, risk salience, ambiguity aversion, present bias, reference groups, reference points, and experienced versus decision utilities. There are also nudges that connect to estimating...

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The Life Satisfaction Approach to Environmental Valuation

Frey, Bruno S. - 2014

In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improve environmental quality and thus individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction Approach (LSA) representing a new non-market valuation...

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Monitoring, Sanctions and Front-Loading of Job Search in a Non-Stationary Model

Cockx, Bart - 2011

We develop and estimate a non-stationary job search model to evaluate a scheme that monitors job search effort and sanctions insured unemployed whose effort is deemed insufficient. The model reveals that such schemes provide incentives to the unemployed to front-load search effort prior to...

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When to Release the Lockdown? A Wellbeing Framework for Analysing Costs and Benefits

Layard, Richard - 2020

It is politicians who have to decide when to release the lockdown, and in what way. In doing so, they have to balance many considerations (as with any decision). Often the different considerations appear incommensurable so that only the roughest of judgements can be made. For example, in the...

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The Subjective Costs of Health Losses Due to Chronic Diseases : An Alternative Model Appraisal

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2023

This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in...

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Knocking on Heaven's Door? Protestantism and Suicide

Becker, Sascha O. - 2011

We model the effect of Protestant vs. Catholic denomination in an economic theory of suicide, accounting for …. We test the theory using a unique micro-regional dataset of 452 counties in 19th-century Prussia, when religiousness was … still pervasive. Our instrumental-variable model exploits the concentric dispersion of Protestantism around Wittenberg to …

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Protestantism and Education : Reading (the Bible) and Other Skills

Boppart, Timo - 2011

During industrialization, Protestants were more literate than Catholics. This paper investigates whether this fact may be led back to the intrinsic motivation of Protestants to read the bible and whether other education motives were involved as well. We employ a historical data set from...

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The Implications of Cultural Background on Labour Market Choices : The Case of Religion and Entrepreneurship

Nunziata, L. - 2011

religious denomination on labour market outcomes, by estimating the differential impact of Protestantism versus Catholicism on … cultural background has a significant effect on the individual propensity to become an entrepreneur, with Protestantism …

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