Stephen V Burks
Biographic Data
| ID | 10325210 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen V Burks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen V |
| FAMILY NAME | Burks |
| SIGNATURE | BURKS S V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4524-2954 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cognitive skills affect economic preferences, strategic behavior, and job attachment
Economic analysis has so far said little about how an individual's cognitive skills (CS) are related to the individual's economic preferences in different choice domains, such as risk taking or saving, and how preferences in different domains are related to each other. Using a sample of 1,000 trainee truckers we report three findings. First, there is a strong and significant relationship between an individual's CS and preferences. Individuals wit…
Fairness and Freight-Handlers
The authors draw on an internal attitude survey conducted yearly from 1996 to 2000 in the freight-handling terminals of a unionized trucking firm to investigate the effect of local labor market conditions on employee wage-fairness perceptions. Their research design exploits the fact that local managers had no discretion to vary wage rates in response to local labor market conditions; local economic shocks thus generated exogenous variation in the…
Fairness and Freight-Handlers
The authors draw on an internal attitude survey conducted yearly from 1996 to 2000 in the freight-handling terminals of a unionized trucking firm to investigate the effect of local labor market conditions on employee wage-fairness perceptions. Their research design exploits the fact that local managers had no discretion to vary wage rates in response to local labor market conditions; local economic shocks thus generated exogenous variation in the…
Fairness and Freight-Handlers
The authors draw on an internal attitude survey conducted yearly from 1996 to 2000 in the freight-handling terminals of a unionized trucking firm to investigate the effect of local labor market conditions on employee wage-fairness perceptions. Their research design exploits the fact that local managers had no discretion to vary wage rates in response to local labor market conditions; local economic shocks thus generated exogenous variation in the…
Cognitive skills affect economic preferences, strategic behavior, and job attachment
Economic analysis has so far said little about how an individual's cognitive skills (CS) are related to the individual's economic preferences in different choice domains, such as risk taking or saving, and how preferences in different domains are related to each other. Using a sample of 1,000 trainee truckers we report three findings. First, there is a strong and significant relationship between an individual's CS and preferences. Individuals wit…
Economics (2 works) · Affect (linguistics) (1 work) · Attractiveness (1 work) · Business (1 work) · Cognition (1 work) · Compensating differential (1 work) · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (1 work) · Dilemma (1 work) · Discretion (1 work) · Economic theories and models (1 work)