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The (d)evolution of the cyberwoman?
(2006)
In this text, we examine Donna Haraway’s idea of a liberating potential of cyborgization first in the subsequent versions of Stepford Wives (the novel, the 1975 movie, and the 2004 movie), and second in the evolution of ...
Tax Toleration and Tax Compliance: How Government Affects the Propensity of Firms to Enter the Unofficial Economy
(2006)
How do government-supplied institutional benefits and the taxation and regulation of produc- ers affect the propensity of private firms to enter the unofficial economy and evade taxation? We propose a model in which the ...
Gender, Risk and Stereotypes
(2006)
This paper reports results from an economic experiment where respondents are asked to make choices between risky outcomes for themselves and others. In addition, we elicit information about the respondents’ perception of ...
Putting decomposition of energy use and pollution on a firm footing - clarifications on the residual, zero and negative values and strategies to assess the performance of decomposition methods
(2006)
I show how the problems with zero and negative values in decomposition
can in principle be resolved by avoiding ill-defined mathematical
operations used to derive the decomposition formulae (division by zero and
taking ...
Would The Right Social Preference Model Please Stand Up!
(2006)
A number of competing social preference models have been developed inspired by the evidence from economic experiments. We test the relative performance of some of these models using an experimental design that is aimed at ...
Essays on Unemployment Duration and Programme Evaluation
(2006)
The process of labour market transformation in the 1990s attracted a lot of attention from economists and policy makers. Unprecedented changes, like rapid reforms in Central and Eastern Europe and later the expansion of ...
Emotions, Morality and Public Goods: The WTA-WTP Disparity Revisited
(2006)
Empirical evidence suggests that people’s maximum willingness to pay for having a good is often substantially lower than their minimum willingness to accept not having it, and that this discrepancy tends to be especially ...
Second Order Approximation for the Average Marginal Effect of Heckman's Two Step Procedure
(2006)
In this paper we discuss the differences between the average marginal effect and the marginal effect of the average individual in sample selection models, estimated by Heckman's two step procedure. We show that the bias ...
Essays on Labor Supply and Poverty: A microeconometric application
(2006)
This thesis consists of four papers in applied micro econometrics. The first paper evaluates the discrete choice labor supply Model by Monte Carlo experiment. The 2nd paper investigates the relationships between participation ...
Internal Migration of Natives and Immigrants Following Job Displacement
(2006)
In this paper discrete-time duration analysis is used to identify differences in the internal migration of immigrants and natives following job displacement. Human capital theory presents us with two hypotheses. One is ...