Title:Psychological Factors and Labour Market Outcomes: The Case of Immigrants and their Children in Germany
Author(s):THUM, Anna-ElisabethDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Chapter I:
Europe is facing the challenge of integrating a growing number of immigrants and their offspring. On the one hand immigration can be a necessity to overcome problems arising from demographic changes but on the ...
Title:Risk Attitudes and Measures of Value for Risky Lotteries
Author(s):LEWANDOWSKI, MichalDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The topic of this thesis is decision-making under risk. I focus my analysis on expected utility theory by von Neumann and Morgenstern. I am especially interested in modeling risk attitudes represented by Bernoulli utility ...