Abstract: This study tests hypotheses regarding the importance of employee preferences in explaining Sticky Floors, the pattern that women are, compared to men, less likely to start to climb the job ladder. To this end we conduct a vignette study in which participants had to score the likeliness with which they would accept job offers with different promotion characteristics. In addition, they...
Many developed countries choose tourism development as opportunity to sustain employment and economic growth. Thus, policies aimed at attracting more and more tourists are put in place. However, increasing tourists’ flows affect local economies and lives of local residents in a number of ways not excluding negative effects. Careful consideration of benefits and pitfalls of tourism...
This document is an overview of the state-of-the-art in the economics of Privacy and Cyber-security (PACS). It is the Deliverable D4.1 under the FP7-financed project “Innovation Framework for Privacy and Cyber-security Market Opportunities.” This is the most comprehensive overview on the economics of PACS to date. This document is intended for a diverse readership. Policymakers may use it in order ...
Deliverable 4.2 (“Horizontal and Vertical Analysis of Privacy and Cyber-Security Markets”) provides an in-depth discussion of economic incentives, stakeholder engagement and market opportunities in privacy and cyber-security. This report first introduces the reader to the horizontal market analysis, which covers firms active at the same stage of the production chain in the privacy and cyber-security ...
This document is an IPACSO service document for the European Commission. It’s main purpose is to outline the contribution and integration of work package 4 into the IPACSO framework. Moreover, it explains stakeholder engagement and the economic incentivization techniques for enabling the adoption of the IPACSO framework. Due to the fact that such incentivization is not directly related to a market ...
Future plans to expand the German electricity transmission grid will be based on scenarios which specifically include the federal government’s climate targets for the electricity sector. These are the findings of Christian von Hirschhausen and Claudia Kemfert, energy experts at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), one of the leading economic research institutions in Germany, ...
