infonet-economy

This paper offers the first instrumental variables estimates of the wage returns to volunteer experience. The returns are substantial and differ considerably by gender. The results imply that the unequal valuation of volunteer experience by gender is more important in explaining the gender earnings gap than is the unequal valuation of part-time paid work experience. The results also...

Entrepreneurs and Investors found ventures for transferring technology and bringing it closer to the market.
Focusing on a situation in which the investor exercises hold-up at the disadvantage of the entrepreneur, this paper works on three points: We identify (1) conditions which make hold-up possible, and discuss (2) measures which help entrepreneurs to protect themselves...

Der Beitrag entwickelt auf der Basis einer Fallstudie zu universitärer Gleichstellungsarbeit ein Modell für das Verständnis von Organisationsveränderung als Übersetzungsprozess. Unter Rückgriff auf Konzepte aus dem skandinavischen Institutionalismus und der Diskurspsychologie wird organisationaler Wandel als das Prozessieren verschiedener Übersetzungszyklen gefasst, deren Reichweite...

Russia’s new Concept of the State Migration Policy until 2025 (the CSMP) was approved on 13 June 2012. As the first comprehensive, nationwide document on migration policy in the modern history of Russia, it marks the beginning of a decisive reform of the country’s migration policy by departing from the existing focus on temporary foreign workers. The emphasis of the CSMP is on...

This dissertation including three distinct papers investigates what roles personal characteristics and abilities of chief executive officers (CEOs) play in the exploration, exploitation, and performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The dissertation thereby focuses on one aspect of CEOs’ characteristics, namely, their regulatory focus (promotion focus and prevention...

Insurance contracts may fail to perform, leading to a total or partial default on valid claims. We extend models of such probabilistic insurance to allow for ambiguity in contract nonperformance risk, and derive formally that mean-preserving ambiguity reduces demand. The results of a field lab experiment are consistent with this logic. In particular, we find that a 10 percent...

Les membres de l’AMG interrogent fréquemment leur as- sociation quant au tarif ambulatoire applicable aux patients étrangers de passage voire séjournant temporairement en Suisse. Il s’agit en particulier de déterminer si le principe de la protection tarifaire – qui impose aux médecins d’appliquer le système de tarification TARMED pour leurs prestations ambulatoires – est applicable...

This article argues that the notion of affective atmosphere provides a privileged access to the study of organizational affect as it relates to a spatial ontology of ‘being-together-in-a-sphere’. Drawing on the study of affective atmospheres in philosophy and cultural geography, we develop a conceptual positioning from which to analyze a musical intervention in the streets and...

The disclosure of the VW emission manipulation scandal caused a quasi-experimental market shock in the observable quality of VW diesel vehicles. We consider a classical model for adverse selection and sorting to derive an empirically testable hypothesis about the impact of observable quality on the supply of used cars. We test the hypothesis with data collected from an online car...