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    <title>Size matters: When it comes to lies</title>
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    <description>Title: Size matters: When it comes to lies
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Eisenkopf, Gerald; Gurtoviy, Ruslan; Utikal, Verena
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: A small lie appears trivial but it obviously violates moral commandments. We analyze whether the preference for others' truth telling is absolute or depends on the size of a lie. In a laboratory experiment we compare punishment for different sizes of lies controlling for the resulting economic harm. We find that people are sensitive to the size of a lie and that this behavioral pattern is driven by honest people. People who lie themselves punish softly in any context.</description>
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    <title>Der Traum vom Mindestlohn: Ein Ländervergleich</title>
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    <description>Title: Der Traum vom Mindestlohn: Ein Ländervergleich
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Tiltag, Andreas
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: Ein gesetzlicher Mindestlohn erzeugt Träume. Positiv sieht er so aus: jede arbeitende Person verdient genug, um aus eigener Kraft einen angemessenen Lebensstandard zu erreichen. Negativ so: Arbeitskräfte, deren Produktivität unterhalb des Mindestlohnes liegt, werden arbeitslos. Die zentrale Frage des Papiers ist die Schlüssigkeit folgenden Arguments: Großbritannien hat einen Mindestlohn und keine hohe Arbeitslosigkeit. Unberücksichtigt in dieser Aussage bleibt der Einfluss anderer Arbeitsmarktinstitutionen auf die Arbeitslosigkeit. Es sollen daher Muster, die hoher und niedriger Arbeitslosigkeit zu Grunde liegen, aufgedeckt werden. Die empirische Grundlage bildet ein Ländervergleich unter Verwendung von Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). Es zeigt sich, dass ein Mindestlohn nur im Zusammenhang mit anderen Regelungen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt zutreffend beurteilt werden kann.</description>
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    <title>Human capital externalities in Western Germany</title>
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    <description>Title: Human capital externalities in Western Germany
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Heuermann, Daniel F.
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: The paper sheds light on the impact of spatial agglomeration of human capital on individual wages in Western Germany. Using panel data it shows that regional wage differentials are to a large extent attributable to localized human capital externalities arising from the regional share of highly qualified workers. Employing the regional number of public schools and of students as instrumental variables the paper shows that human capital externalities are underestimated in ordinary panel regressions for wages of highly qualified and non-highly qualified workers alike due to supply shifts of highly qualified workers. An analysis by sector reveals that human capital externalities are more pronounced in manufacturing than in the service sector. We find indication that highly qualified workers benefit from intra-industry knowledge spillovers, while non-highly qualified workers profit from pecuniary externalities between industries. Our findings are stable among a variety of indicators of regional human capital and robust to the inclusion of other sources of increasing returns, as well as wage curve, price level, and amenity effects.</description>
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    <title>Job turnover, risk sharing, and regional wages in Western Germany</title>
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    <description>Title: Job turnover, risk sharing, and regional wages in Western Germany
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Heuermann, Daniel F.
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: We test Krugman's (1991) notion of risk sharing in pooled labor markets as one of the micro-foundations of agglomeration economies, i.e. we examine whether firms share risks from idiosyncratic and sector specific shocks through labor pooling. Estimating wage functions we find that job turnover depresses wages at the regional and the firm level, indicating that firms incur significant adjustment costs when experiencing productivity shocks. On the regional level, industrial specialization and diversification mitigate wage depressing effects of different types of employment shocks. On the firm level, shock intensive firms are found to be more productive when being located in spatial proximity to firms with large but opposite employment shocks. Both findings provide evidence that labor pooling matters as a source of agglomeration economies by allowing firms to share employment risks. However, we find only weak evidence for shock intensive industries to be more concentrated, suggesting that agglomeration costs exceed the benefits from risk sharing.</description>
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