Previous work has shown that preferences are not always stable across time, but surprisingly little is known about the reasons for this instability. I examine whether variation in people’s emotions over time predicts changes in preferences. Using a large panel data set, I find that within-person changes in happiness, anger, and fear have substantial effects on risk attitudes and patience. Robustness ...
Smartphone anschaffen und fertig? So leicht lässt sich mobiles Arbeiten leider nicht in der Öffentlichen Verwaltung einführen. Johannes Meisel von T-Systems stellt in diesem Gastbeitrag sieben Fehler vor, die Behörden unbedingt vermeiden sollten.
This paper measures and decomposes the differences in earnings distributions between public sector and private sector employees in Germany for the years 1984-2001. Oaxaca decomposition results suggest that conditional wages are higher in the public sector for women but lower for men. Using the quantile regression decomposition technique proposed by Machado and Mata (2004), we find that the conditional ...