Ultimatum Game, called the Dictator Game, the responder has no power to control the outcome of the bargain. The Dictator Game is thus used to evaluate the proposer only, demonstrating that even without responder
Job returners differ in their education, occupational background, pre-interruption attachment to the labor market and family situation. All these factors are observable to the caseworker and play a role in the decision to assign a training voucher. Table 3 summarizes the potential confounders, their...
Feelings of care, such as attachment, affection, nurture, as well as curiosity and being passionate about the species, were dominant motivations for pet keepers. Respondents were willing to support the conservation of species in the wild. Our findings highlight that relational dimensions are among ...
These evaluations are called bonding evaluations (i.e., “a specialized type of assessment whose goal is to determine the nature of the child’s attachment to birth parents and foster parents, especially to address the question of who occupies the position of greatest centrality in the child’s...
This framework accords a special role to the hourly rate of pay, which is designed to measure the incentive to work or, equivalently, the price of not working. There are a number of different routes through which hourly earnings affect work levels, and the goal of research has been to ...
Early studies in this literature used cross-section data sets to trace out the age-earnings profiles of immigrants and natives (Chiswick 1978). A cross-section survey allows us to compare the current earnings of newly arrived immigrants (measured as of the time of the survey) with the current...
SMP is payable for 39 weeks and is paid at 90% of the employee’s average weekly earnings for the first 6 weeks. The subsequent 33 weeks of SMP are payable at a rate of either £128.73 or 90% of the employee’s average weekly earnings, depending on which of these is lower. If ...
(Rego and Wilson, 2012). Because tournament incentives promote greater risk-taking, CFOs might pursue more aggressive tax policies, because such actions have the desirable outcome of reporting more earnings and retaining more cash: two strong performance indicators pertinent to promotion.Kubick and ...
Economists have devoted considerable attention to the challenge of estimating the returns to schooling taking account of these other factors. Analysis of such returns generally reveals a consistent positive relationship between investment in education and increased earnings for individuals, with an estimate ...
While the trajectories of interrupted lifetime earnings were quite similar to the British in West Germany, the Swedish scenario showed a much smaller dip in lifetime earnings. Swedish institutions permit mothers to maintain labor force attachment through parental leave when their children are infants ...