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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
4843 Martin Halla
The Link between the Intrinsic Motivation to Comply and Compliance Behavior: A Critical Appraisal of Existing Evidence
Recent economic literature emphasizes the importance of moral considerations to explain compliance behavior with respect to underground activities such as tax evasion. A considerable amount of ...
(published in: Friedrich Schneider (ed.), The Handbook on the Shadow Economy, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011, 375-408)
O17, H26, A13, Z13, C81
4842 Dirk Antonczyk
Thomas DeLeire
Bernd Fitzenberger
Polarization and Rising Wage Inequality: Comparing the U.S. and Germany
This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz (1995) to separate age, time, and cohort effects. Between 1979 and 2004, wage ...
(published in: Econometrics, 2018, 6 (2), 1-33)
J30, J31
4841 Sergio Firpo
Identification and Estimation of Distributional Impacts of Interventions Using Changes in Inequality Measures
This paper presents semiparametric estimators of distributional impacts of interventions (treatment) when selection to the program is based on observable characteristics. Distributional impacts of a ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2016, 31(3), 457-486)
C1, C3
4840 Stephen V. Burks
Jeffrey P. Carpenter
Lorenz Götte
Aldo Rustichini
Overconfidence is a Social Signaling Bias
Evidence from psychology and economics indicates that many individuals overestimate their ability, both absolutely and relatively. We test three different theories about observed relative ...
(revised version published as 'Overconfidence and Social Signalling' in: Review of Economic Studies, 2013, 80 (3), 949-983)
D03, D83, C93
4839 Alberto Bayo-Moriones
Jose Enrique Galdon-Sanchez
Sara Martinez-de-Morentin
The Diffusion of Pay for Performance across Occupations
In this paper the differences in the incidence of pay for performance plans between occupations in a sample of Spanish manufacturing establishments are analyzed. Our results show that there are ...
(published in: Industrial & Labor Relations Review, 2013, 66 (5), 1115-1148)
M52
4838 Arnaud Dupuy
An Economic Model of the Evolution of the Gender Performance Ratio in Individual Sports
This paper shows that the gender world record ratio in four disciplines, i.e. marathon, triple jump, pole vault and 800 meters, follows an S-shape over time. It is argued that this pattern is ...
(published in: International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport, 2012, 12 (1), 222-245)
J16, J7, N32
4837 Laurence Jacquet
Etienne Lehmann
Bruno Van der Linden
Optimal Redistributive Taxation with Both Extensive and Intensive Responses
This paper characterizes optimal income taxation when individuals respond along both the intensive and extensive margins. Individuals are heterogeneous across two dimensions: specifically, their ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2013, 148 (5), 1770-1805)
H21, H23
4834 Fabrizio Coricelli
Nigel Driffield
Sarmistha Pal
Isabelle Roland
Excess Leverage and Productivity Growth in Emerging Economies: Is There A Threshold Effect?
The paper examines the relationship between leverage and growth in a group of emerging central and eastern European countries, who are at different levels of financial market development. We ...
(revised version published as 'When does leverage hurt productivity growth? A firm-level analysis' in: Journal of International Money and Finance, 2012, 31 (6), 1674-1694)
G32, O16
4832 Mathias Hungerbühler
Etienne Lehmann
Alexis Parmentier
Bruno Van der Linden
A Simple Theory of Optimal Redistributive Taxation with Equilibrium Unemployment
We propose a canonical model of optimal nonlinear redistributive taxation with matching unemployment. In our model, agents are endowed with different skill levels and labor markets are perfectly ...
(published in: Economie Publique/Public Economics, 2012, 22-23 (1-2), 203-218)
H21 H23, J64
4831 Pieter Serneels
Jose G. Montalvo
Gunilla Pettersson
Tomas Lievens
Jean Damascene Butera
Aklilu Kidanu
Who Wants to Work in a Rural Health Post? The Role of Intrinsic Motivation, Rural Background and Faith-Based Institutions in Rwanda and Ethiopia
Most developing countries face shortages of health workers in rural areas. This has profound consequences for health service delivery, and ultimately for health outcomes. To design policies that ...
(published in: Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2010, 88, 342-349)
J22, I11
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