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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
2293 Dirk Sliwka
Trust as a Signal of a Social Norm and the Hidden Costs of Incentive Schemes
An explanation for motivation crowding-out phenomena is developed in a social preferences framework. Besides selfish and fair or altruistic types a third type of agents is introduced: These ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2007, 97 (3), 999-1012)
M52, J33, D23
2292 Alexandre Mas
Enrico Moretti
Peers at Work
We investigate how and why the productivity of a worker varies as a function of the productivity of her co-workers in a group production process. In theory, the introduction of a high productivity ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2009, 99 (1), 112-145)
J01
2288 Michael Kosfeld
Akira Okada
Arno Riedl
Institution Formation in Public Goods Games
Centralized sanctioning institutions are of utmost importance for overcoming free-riding tendencies and enforcing outcomes that maximize group welfare in social dilemma situations. However, little is ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2009, 99 (4), 1335-1355)
C72, C92, D72
2287 Nil Demet Güngör
Aysit Tansel
Brain Drain from Turkey: An Investigation of Students' Return Intentions
The emigration of skilled individuals from Turkey attracted greater media attention and the interest of policymakers in Turkey, particularly after the experience of recurrent economic crises that ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 40 (23), 2008, 3069 - 3087)
F20, F22
2286 Björn Brügemann
Does Employment Protection Create Its Own Political Support?
This paper investigates the ability of employment protection to generate its own political support. A version of the Mortensen-Pissarides model is used for this purpose. Under the standard assumption ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2012, 10 (2), 369 - 416)
E24, J41, J65
2285 Daniela Del Boca
Robert M. Sauer
Life Cycle Employment and Fertility Across Institutional Environments
In this paper, we formulate a dynamic utility maximization model of female labor force participation and fertility choices and estimate approximate decision rules using data on married women in ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2009, 53(3), 274-292)
J2, J6, C3, D1
2284 Jean-Yves Duclos
Equity and Equality
Is horizontal equity (HE) the "most widely accepted principle of equity"? Or does it stand in "opposition to the advancement of human welfare"? This paper argues that the case for the HE principle is ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'économique, 2006, 39 (4), 1073-1104)
D31, D60, D63, I30
2283 Nikolaj Malchow-Møller
Jakob R. Munch
Sanne Schroll
Jan Rose Skaksen
Attitudes Towards Immigration: Does Economic Self-Interest Matter?
In this paper, we re-examine the role of economic self-interest in shaping people’s attitudes towards immigration, using data from the European Social Survey 2002/2003. Compared to the existing ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 100 (2), 254-257)
F1, F22, J61
2282 Sami H. Miaari
Robert M. Sauer
The Labor Market Costs of Conflict: Closures, Foreign Workers, and Palestinian Employment and Earnings
In this paper, we measure the implications of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for Palestinian employment and earnings. We quantify the conflict by the frequency of temporary closures of the West ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (1), 129-148)
J21, J31, J40, J61, F22, C23
2281 Magnus Carlsson
Dan-Olof Rooth
Evidence of Ethnic Discrimination in the Swedish Labor Market Using Experimental Data
We present experimental evidence for recruitment discrimination against men with an Arabic sounding name. Our results show that every fourth employer discriminates against the minority. However, ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (4), 716-729)
J64, J71
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