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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9868 Johannes F. Schmieder
Simon Trenkle
Disincentive Effects of Unemployment Benefits and the Role of Caseworkers
A large literature has documented that the unemployment duration of unemployed individuals increases with the generosity of the unemployment insurance (UI) system, which has been interpreted as the ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 182, 104096)
J65
9867 Stefan Pichler
Nicolas R. Ziebarth
Labor Market Effects of US Sick Pay Mandates
This paper exploits temporal and spatial variation in the implementation of US sick pay mandates to assess their labor market consequences. We use the Synthetic Control Group Method (SCGM) and the ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2020, 55 (2), 611-659)
I12, I13, I18, J22, J28, J32
9863 Werner Eichhorst
Paul Marx
Caroline Wehner
Labor Market Reforms in Europe: Towards More Flexicure Labor Markets?
Labor market segmentation refers to a salient divide between secure and insecure jobs and is related to problems in important areas, including macro-economic efficiency, workers' wellbeing and ...
(published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2017, 51 (3), 1-17.)
J42, J48, J68
9861 Fabian Kosse
Thomas Deckers
Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
Armin Falk
The Formation of Prosociality: Causal Evidence on the Role of Social Environment
This study presents descriptive and causal evidence on the role of social environment for the formation of prosociality. In a first step, we show that socio-economic status (SES) as well as the ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128 (2), 434 - 467)
D64, C90
9860 Bradley Ruffle
Yossef Tobol
Clever Enough to Tell the Truth
We conduct a field experiment on 427 Israeli soldiers who each rolled a six-sided die in private and reported the outcome. For every point reported, the soldier received an additional half-hour early ...
(published in: Experimental Economics, 2017, 20, 130-155)
C93, M51
9859 Ritwik Banerjee
Corruption, Norm Violation and Decay in Social Capital
The paper studies the link between corruption and social capital (measured as trust), using data from a lab experiment. Subjects play either a harassment bribery game or a strategically identical but ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2016, 137, 14–27)
C91, C92, D03
9858 Gadi Barlevy
Derek Neal
Allocating Effort and Talent in Professional Labor Markets
In many professional service firms, new associates work long hours while competing in up-or-out promotion contests. Our model explores why these firms require young professionals to take on heavy ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 37 (1), 187–246)
J44, J22, M51
9857 David Freeman
Paola Manzini
Marco Mariotti
Luigi Mittone
Procedures for Eliciting Time Preferences
We study three procedures to elicit attitudes towards delayed payments: the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak procedure; the second price auction; and the multiple price list. The payment mechanisms associated ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, 2016, 126 (Part A), 235–242)
C91, D9
9855 Dirk Sliwka
Peter Werner
How Do Agents React to Dynamic Wage Increases? An Experimental Study
We investigate how workers' performance is affected by the timing of wages in a real-effort experiment. In all treatments agents earn the same wage sum but wage increases are distributed differently ...
(revised version published as 'Wage Increases and the Dynamics of Reciprocity' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35 (2), 299-344)
M12, C91
9854 Maria De Paola
Francesca Gioia
Vincenzo Scoppa
The Adverse Consequences of Tournaments: Evidence from a Field Experiment
We run a field experiment to investigate whether competing in rank-order tournaments with different prize spreads affects individual performance. Our experiment involved students from an Italian ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 151, 1-18)
J33, J31, J24, D81, D82, C93
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