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Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - CESifo - 2014

We consider a bargaining model in which husband and wife decide on the allocation of time and disposable income. Since her bargaining power would go down otherwise more strongly, the wife agrees to have a child only if the husband also leaves the labor market for a while. The daddy months...

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Corporate Philanthropy and Productivity: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - CESifo - 2014

Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and non-profit sector as well as in firms that engage in Corporate Philanthropy or other Corporate Social Responsibility policies. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives - that take the form...

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On the Optimality of Joint Taxation for Non-Cooperative Couples

Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - CESifo - 2010

We present a non-cooperative model of a family’s time allocation between work and a home-produced public good, and … adjustment of intra-family transfers compensates the secondary earner for the increased tax load. …

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Beyond Ramsey: Gender-Based Taxation with Non-Cooperative Couples

Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - CESifo - 2012

This paper explores the implications of gender-based income taxation in a non- cooperative model of a couple’s time … by gender is solely determined by spouses’ relative marginal rates of substitution between the public household good and … sharp contrast to previous models of gender-based taxation in which households select Pareto efficient allocations …

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Disentangling the Sources of Pro-social Behavior in the Workplace: A Field Experiment

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - CESifo - 2009

impact due to output-oriented altruism. We also find significant gender-related differences in the treatment effect: women …

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Sharing One's Fortune? An Experimental Study on Earned Income and Giving

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - CESifo - 2013

In this paper we investigate the relationship between earnings and charitable giving. We set up a real effort experiment, in which subjects enter data in four one-hour occasions and are paid a piece rate. From the second occasion onwards, we randomly assign half of the subjects to a treatment...

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Are Public Sector Workers Different? Cross-European Evidence from Elderly Workers and Retirees

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - CESifo - 2015

We investigate whether public and private sector employees differ in terms of public service motivation using a representative sample of elderly workers from 12 European countries. We find that public sector workers, both those currently employed and those already retired, are significantly more...

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Domestic Abuse: Instrumental Violence and Economics Incentives

Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut - CESifo - 2011

-monotonic relationship between the gender wage gap and domestic violence. We explore the implication of this result in the context of various …

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Unemployment and Domestic Violence: Theory and Evidence

Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan; … - CESifo - 2013

Is unemployment the overwhelming determinant of domestic violence that many commentators expect it to be? The contribution of this paper is to examine, theoretically and empirically, how changes in unemployment affect the incidence of domestic abuse. The key theoretical prediction is that male...

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Political Socialization in Flux? Linking Family Non-Intactness during Childhood to Adult Civic Engagement

Hener, Timo; Rainer, Helmut; Siedler, Thomas - CESifo - 2012

-intact family and children’s civic, social and political engagement as adults. We argue that this finding is consistent with … traditional family structures in many countries throughout the developed world. According to Putnam in Bowling alone (2000 …), however, none of the major declines in civic engagement can be accounted for by the decline in traditional family structures …

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