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What Drives Taxi Drivers? A Field Experiment on Fraud in a Market for Credence Goods
Balafoutas, Loukas; Beck, Adrian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
behavior by sellers. This paper presents the results of a natural field experiment on taxi rides in Athens, Greece, set up to … measure different types of fraud and to examine the influence of passengers' presumed information and income on the extent of … fraud. Results reveal that taxi drivers cheat passengers in systematic ways: Passengers with inferior information about …
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Withering academia?
Frey, Bruno S. - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2010
, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of “university …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008672224
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The Meaning of Failed Replications: A Review and Proposal
Clemens, Michael A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
The welcome rise of replication tests in economics has not been accompanied by a single, clear definition of replication. A discrepant replication, in current usage of the term, can signal anything from an unremarkable disagreement over methods to scientific incompetence or misconduct. This...
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Corporate Governance for Crooks? The Case for Corporate Virtue
Osterloh, Margit; Frey, Bruno S. - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …
Corporate scandals are reflected in excessive top management compensation and fraudulent accounts. These scandals cause an enormous amount of damage, not only to the companies affected, but also to the market economy as a whole. As a solution, conventional wisdom suggests more monitoring and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005760916
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An Empirical Analysis of the Time Allocation of Italian Couples: Are Italian Men Irresponsive?
Bloemen, Hans; Pasqua, Silvia; Stancanelli, Elena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature suggests that Italian husbands contribute the least to unpaid household work, relative to other European countries, while Italian women have the lowest market employment rates....
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Modelling the Employment and Wage Outcomes of Spouses: Is She Outearning Him?
Bloemen, Hans; Stancanelli, Elena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper is focused on couple households where the wife is the main earner. The economic literature on this subject is particularly scant. According to our estimates, the wife was the main earner in one of every six couple households in France in 2002, including wife-sole-earner households....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762193
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How Do Parents Allocate Time? The Effects of Wages and Income
Bloemen, Hans; Stancanelli, Elena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper focuses on the time allocation of spouses and the impact of economic variables. We present a stylized model of the time allocation of spouses to illustrate the expected impact of wages and non-labour income. The empirical model simultaneously specifies three time-use choices – paid...
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Choosing to Compete: How Different Are Girls and Boys?
Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from …
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Risk-Taking Tournaments: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Nieken, Petra; Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
experiment. First, a model is analyzed in which two agents simultaneously decide between a risky and a safe strategy and we allow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822136
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TIPping the Scales towards Greater Employment Chances? Evaluation of a Trial Introduction Program (TIP) for Newly-Arrived Immigrants Based on Random Program Assignment
Andersson Joona, Pernilla; Nekby, Lena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
A Trial Introduction Program (TIP) for newly-arrived immigrants to Sweden was implemented from October 2006 to June 2008 in order to meet the main criticisms directed at existing introduction programs. Two primary innovations were introduced, flexible language instruction parallel with other...
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