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Buying online : sequential decision making by shopbot visitors

Dulleck, Uwe; Hackl, Franz; Weiss, Bernhard; … - 2008 - This Version August 2008

In this article we propose a two stage procedure to model demand decisions by customers who are balancing several dimensions of a product. We then test our procedure by analyzing the behavior of buyers from an Austrian price comparison site. Although in such a market a consumer will typically...

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Tuning an online shop : consumer reactions to e-tailers' service quality

Hackl, Franz; Weiss, Bernhard; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2009 - This Version June 2009

This paper investigates the impact of service quality in e-tailing on site visits and consumer demand (approximated by the last-click- through concept). We use a large representative data set obtained from a price-comparison site which covers most of the national (Austrian) market on e-tailing....

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Does schooling improve cognitive functioning at older ages?

Schneeweis, Nicole; Skirbekk, Vegard; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2012

We study the relationship between education and cognitive functioning at older ages by exploiting compulsory schooling … of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), we assess the causal effect of education on old-age memory, fluency …, numeracy, orientation and dementia. We find a positive impact of schooling on memory. One year of education increases the …

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Reducing start-up costs for new firms : the double dividend on the labor market

Dulleck, Uwe; Frijters, Paul; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003

insurance against unemployment caused by labor market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show within … a matching model that reducing the start-up costs for new firms results in higher take-up rates of education. It also …

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Who is on the rise in Austria : wage mobility and mobility risk

Raferzeder, Thomas; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2004

In this paper we investigate earnings mobility in Austria from the angle of individual persons: earnings mobility over time has two aspects: positional changes and the volatility of earnings over time. Whereas the further is a positive outcome, more volatility as such can be seen as negative. We...

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