Causal Misperceptions of the Part-Time Pay Gap

The Gender Pay Gap

Addressing Insulin Misperceptions (AIM) - Part 1.

Insulin misperceptions are specific, widespread, incorrect beliefs about the purpose, utility, and limitations of insulin. This article, the first of a series, attempts to define and classify insulin misperceptions, while providing an overview of their sources. It lists the target audience in whom misperceptions must be addressed, and differentiates between insulin-naïve and insulin-experienced...

Understanding the public sector pay gap

*Correspondence: [email protected] 4Bank of Spain, Calle Alcalá 48, 28014 Madrid, Spain Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Abstract We uncover the shortand long-run structural determinants of the existing cross-country heterogeneity in public-private pay differentials for a broad set of OECD countries. We explore micro data (EU-SILC, 2004–2012) and macro dat...

Can Agents with Causal Misperceptions be Systematically Fooled?∗

Can a policy maker lead an agent to form systematically biased economic forecasts? This possibility is ruled out by the conventional rational-expectations postulate. I revisit this question and assume that the agent misperceives causal relations among economic variables, which may lead to non-rational expectations. The agent forms forecasts of economic variables after observing the policy maker...

The German part - time wage gap : Bad news for men ?

Despite the increasing incidence of part-time employment in Germany, the effects on wage rates are studied rarely. I therefore use SOEP panel data from 1984 to 2010 and apply different econometric approaches and definitions of part-time work to measure the socalled part-time wage gap of both, men and women in East and West Germany. A very robust finding is that part-time working men are subject...