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The Scope of Cooperation: Values and Incentives
Tabellini, Guido - CESifo - 2008
unique equilibrium where legal enforcement remains weak and individual values discourage cooperation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005249467
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Institution Formation in Public Goods Games
Kosfeld, Michael; Okada, Akira; Riedl, Arno - CESifo - 2006
Centralized sanctioning institutions are of utmost importance for overcoming free-riding tendencies and enforcing … outcomes that maximize group welfare in social dilemma situations. However, little is known about how such institutions come … institutions in a public goods game. Our theoretical analysis shows that players may form sanctioning institutions in equilibrium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406364
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A Case for Taxing Education
Blumkin, Tomer; Sadka, Efraim - CESifo - 2005
We illustrate a novel informational feature of education, which the government may utilize. Discretionary decisions of individuals to acquire education may serve as an additional signal (to earned labor income) on the underlying unobserved innate earning ability, thereby mitigating the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765976
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On the Desirability of Taxing Charitable Contributions
Blumkin, Tomer; Sadka, Efraim - CESifo - 2007
We develop a model that allows for public goods and status signaling through charitable contributions. This model provides a unified framework in which contributions are driven both by altruism and status signaling. We use this setup to re-examine the conventional practice of rendering a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406030
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Taxing Children: The Re-distributive Role of Child Benefits - Revisited
Blumkin, Tomer; Margalioth, Yoram; Sadka, Efraim - CESifo - 2010
In this paper, we challenge the conventional wisdom that due to the negative correlation between family size and earning ability, family size can be used as a 'tagging' device, and calls for subsidizing children (via child allowances) to enhance egalitarian objectives. We show that the case for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572579
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Labor Migration and the Case for Flat Tax
Blumkin, Tomer; Sadka, Efraim; Shem-Tov, Yotam - CESifo - 2011
In this paper we employ a tax-competition model to demonstrate that in the presence of migration the re-distributive advantage of a non-linear income tax system over a linear (flat) one is significantly mitigated relative to the autarky (no-migration) equilibrium. When migration threats are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024840
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Term Length and the Quality of Appointments
Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa - CESifo - 2000
Consider a principal who appoints an agent. Let the agent potentially serve for a sufficiently long time that one principal is replaced by another over this period. Suppose also that the quality of the agent appointed increases with the effort the incumbent principal devotes to hiring. Then the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765826
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Earnings Instability and Tenure
Cappellari, Lorenzo; Leonardi, Marco - CESifo - 2013
We study the effect of tenure on earnings instability in Italy using two alternative estimation strategies. First we … earnings dynamics distinguishing permanent from transitory earnings, and exploit variation of tenure and instability over time … temporary contracts (short-tenure contracts). Our results indicate that each year of tenure on the job reduces earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010627569
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Tenure and Experience Effects on Wages: A Theory
Burdett, Ken; Coles, Melvyn - CESifo - 2010
This paper investigates equilibria in a labor market where firms post wage/tenure contracts and risk-averse workers … endogenously over time through experience effects, tenure effects and quits to better paid employment. This equilibrium approach … suggests how to identify econometrically between experience and tenure effects on worker wages. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671718
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Persistence of Politicians and Firms' Innovation
Bellettini, Giorgio; Ceroni, Carlotta Berti; Prarolo, … - CESifo - 2011
We empirically investigate whether the persistence of politicians in political institutions affects the innovation … political institutions of Italian municipalities. Standard OLS shows no raw correlation between political persistence and firms …
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