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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
1203 Armin Falk
Michael Kosfeld
Distrust – The Hidden Cost of Control
We show experimentally that a principal’s distrust in the voluntary performance of an agent has a negative impact on the agent’s motivation to perform well. Before the agent chooses his ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (5), 1611 - 1630)
C7, C9, M5
1202 Rafael Lalive
Alois Stutzer
Approval of Equal Rights and Gender Differences in Well-Being
Women earn less than men but are not less satisfied with life. This paper argues that norms on the appropriate pay for women compared to men explain these findings. We take citizens’ approval of an ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (3), 933-962)
I31, J16, J31, J70, Z13
1199 Peter J. Sloane
Nigel C. O'Leary
The Return to a University Education in Great Britain
In this paper, we estimate the rate of return to first degrees, masters degrees and PhDs in Britain using data from the Labour Force Survey. We estimate returns to broad subject groups and more ...
(published in: National Institute Economic Review, 2005, 193 (1), 75-89)
I2, J0, J3
1198 John S. Earle
Klara Sabirianova Peter
Contract Violations, Neighborhood Effects, and Wage Arrears in Russia
We present a model of neighborhood effects in wage payment delays. Positive feedback arises because each employer’s arrears affect the late payment costs faced by other firms in the same local ...
(revised version published as' Complementarity and Custom in Wage Contract Violation' in: Review of Economicss and Statistics, 2009, 91(4), 832 - 849)
A12, B52, J30, K42, L14, O17, P31, P37
1197 Filipe Almeida-Santos
Karen A. Mumford
Employee Training and Wage Compression in Britain
We use linked data for 1,460 workplaces and 19,853 employees from the Workplace Employee Relations Survey 1998 to analyse the incidence and duration of employee training in Britain. We find ...
(revised version published in: Manchester School, 2005, 73 (3), 321-342)
J24, J31, J41
1196 M. Hashem Pesaran
Davide Pettenuzzo
Allan Timmermann
Forecasting Time Series Subject to Multiple Structural Breaks
This paper provides a novel approach to forecasting time series subject to discrete structural breaks. We propose a Bayesian estimation and prediction procedure that allows for the possibility of ...
(published in Review of Economic Studies, 2006, 73 (4), 1057-1084)
C11, C15, C53
1195 Panu Poutvaara
Tuomas Takalo
Candidate Quality
We analyze the topical question of how the compensation of elected politicians affects the set of citizens choosing to run. To this end, we develop a sparse and tractable citizen-candidate model of ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2007, 14 (1), 7-27)
D70, D72, D79, J24, J4
1193 Steffen Huck
Andrew Seltzer
Brian Wallace
Deferred Compensation and Gift Exchange: An Experimental Investigation into Multi-Period Labor Markets
This paper examines the relationship between firms’ wage offers and workers’ supply of effort using a three-period experiment. In equilibrium, firms will offer deferred compensation: first period ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (2), 819-843)
C91, J31, J41, M51, M52
1192 Yann Algan
Pierre Cahuc
Job Protection: The Macho Hypothesis
This paper shows that employment protection is influenced by the male breadwinner conception which is itself shaped by religions. First, by using international individual surveys, we document that ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2006, 22 (3), 390-410)
J16, J20, J71
1191 Tor Eriksson
Marie Claire Villeval
Other-Regarding Preferences and Performance Pay – An Experiment on Incentives and Sorting
Variable pay not only creates a link between pay and performance but may also help firms in attracting the more productive employees (Lazear 1986, 2000). However, due to lack of natural data, ...
(revised version published as 'Performance-pay, sorting and social motivation ' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008, 68 (2), 412-421.)
M52, J33, J31, C81, C91
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