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Two pension reforms in Austria increased the early retirement age from 60 to 62 for men and from 55 to 58.25 for women. The reforms reduced early retirement by 18.9 percentage points among affected men aged 60-62 and by 22.3 percentage points among affected women aged 55-58.25. The associated increase in employment was merely 6.8 percentage points among men and 10.1 percentage points...

We show that professional soccer players exhibit reference-dependent behavior during matches. Controlling for the state of the match and for unobserved heterogeneity, we show on a minute-by-minute basis that a player breaches the rules of the game, measured by the referee’s assignment of cards, with a significantly higher probability if his team is behind the expected match outcome,...

A key aspect of generating new ideas is drawing from different elements of preexisting knowledge and combining them into a new idea. In such a process, the diversity of ideas plays a central role. This paper examines the empirical question of how the internet affected the diversity of new research by making the existing literature accessible online. The internet marks a technological...

This paper examines the evolution of female labor market outcomes from 1987 to 2008 by assessing the role of changing labor demand requirements in four developing countries: Brazil, Mexico, India and Thailand. The results highlight the importance of structural change in reducing gender disparities by decreasing the labor demand for physical attributes. The results show that India,...

Der Artikel präsentiert eine zusammenfassende Auswertung einer Unternehmensbefragung vom September 2011 in der MEM-Industrie der Schweiz. Dabei ging es darum, in 11 ausgewählten Technologiegebieten im Energiebereich mit Schwergewicht von den Anbietern zu erfahren, wie diese die Marktpotenziale für diese Technologien in der Schweiz und auf dem Weltmarkt einschätzen, wie gross ihre...

This paper provides evidence that scores on simple, low-stakes tests are associated with future economic success because the scores also reflect test takers' personality traits associated with their level of intrinsic motivation. To establish this, I use the coding speed test that was administered without incentives to participants in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (...

Seit einiger Zeit wird in Deutschland eine intensive Diskussion über die ermäßigten Umsatzsteuersätze geführt. Der vorliegende Beitrag blickt rechtsvergleichend über die Grenzen der EU hinaus: Neuseeland sieht einen einheitlichen Steuersatz vor. Auch die Schweiz erwägt die Einführung eines Einheitssatzes. Die Erfahrungen und Überlegungen in diesen Ländern lassen sich für den...