This study is a collection of essays in empirical labor economics with a focus on labor supply. The topics chosen are from different fields of research that are not on the top of economists' agenda and therefore are underresearched. First, it is examined whether religion affects individuals'...

Die Evaluierung der Investitionen in Ausbildung undihrer Wirkungen auf den Arbeitsmarkt ist in modernen Gesellschaften von zentralemInteresse. Gewöhnlich ist die Meinung gegenüber der ökonomischen und gesellschaftlichenRendite der Ausbildung positiv: ein Mehr an Ausbildung zieht eine...

Recent psychological research has investigated how people assess the probability of an indicative conditional. Most people give the conditional probability of q given p as the probability of if p then q. Asking about the probability of an indicative conditional, one is in effect asking about its...

Background: An important issue in prediction modeling of multivariate data is the measure of dependence structure. The use of Pearson's correlation as a dependence measure has several pitfalls and hence application of regression prediction models based on this correlation may not be an...

OBJECTIVE: To examine trends in socio-economic differentials in all-cause mortality in Sydney over a 25-year period (1970-94). METHODS: Five measures of single indicators (two for occupation, two for education and one for income) and a composite measure of socio-economic disadvantage based on...

Process models are used by information professionals to convey semantics about the business operations in a real world domain intended to be supported by an information system. The understandability of these models is vital to them being used for information systems development. In this paper,...

Klassische Geldbewertung unterstellt einen Zusammenhang zwischen Geld (x) und empfundener Geldbewertung über eine Funktion v(x) für x=0.In dieser Arbeit wird die "Fenstertheorie der emotionalen Wahrnehmung" von Albers als neuer Ansatz der Geldbewertung vorgestellt. Dieser unterstellt keine...

Van Boening and Wilcox ran experiments finding that the ordinarily robust DoubleAuction produced inefficient results in an environment characterized by a small numberof sellers with non-convex cost structures (i.e. large avoidable fixed costs, zeroincremental costs, and production quantity...