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Attracting attentive academics : paper, person or place? ; conference paper

Günther, Isabel; Grosse, Melanie; Klasen, Stephan - 2014 - First draft

We examine the determinants of the number of attendees and questions and comments in parallel sessions at a large economics conference. We use the annual meeting of the German economics association in 2012 in G ttingen as an empirical case study. We find that the place (close to the coffee and...

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Dissatisfied with life or with being interviewed? : happiness and motivation to participate in a survey ; conference paper

Chadi, Adrian - 2014

Information on the number of interviewer contacts allows insights into how people's responses to questions on happiness are connected to the difficulty of reaching potential participants. Using the paradata of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), this paper continues such research by...

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Economic effects of the French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars

Aerts, Erik (contributor); Crouzet, François (contributor) - 1990

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Firing costs : eurosclerosis or eurosuccesses? : paper presented at the HWWA Workshop, August 26-27, 1999, on "Uncertainty and Factor Demands", organized by Michael Funke (Universi...

Chen, Yu-Fu; Snower, Dennis J.; Gylfi Zoega; Funke, Michael - HWWA Workshop on Uncertainty and Factor Demands <1999, …; … - 1999

In this paper we analyse the employment implications of firing restrictions. We find that when a recession is expected and the trend rate of productivity growth is small, a rise in firing costs affects mainly the hiring decision. Thus there is a negative effect on average employment. When, on...

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Progress in the competitive agenda in the postal and delivery sector

Crew, Michael A. (contributor); … - 2009

liberalized environment / François Boldron ... [et al.] -- 6. Postal costing beyond ABC : estimating the economic cost of mails … George Houpis -- 8. Calculating the cost of the universal service obligation : the need for a global approach. / Christian … Jaag, Martin Koller and Urs Trinkner -- 9. Cost analysis and pricing of innovative postal products / Louis F. O'Brien, Leon …

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The cost of migrating to a culturally different location : conference paper

Falck, Oliver; Lameli, Alfred; Ruhose, Jens - 2014 - This version: February 2014

Ever since Sjaastad (1962), researchers have struggled to quantify the psychic cost of migration. We monetize psychic … cost as the wage premium for moving to a culturally different location. We combine administrative social security panel …

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