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Culture and Corruption
Barr, Abigail; Serra, Danila - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2006
Working with a sample of individuals from 43 countries, including some of the most and least corrupt in the world, we run an experiment in which: `private citizens` have to decide whether and how much to offer `public servants` in exchange for corrupt services; `public servants` have to decide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820336
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Corruption and culture: An Experimental Analysis
Barr, Abigail; Serra, Danila - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008
Why do some people choose corruption over honesty and others not?  Do the social norms and values prevailing in the societies in which they grew up affect their decisions?  In 2005, we conducted a bribery experiment and found that, among undergraduates, we could predict who would act corruptly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004448
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Social Norms and Household Time Allocation
Sevilla-Sanz, Almudena; Fernandez, Cristina - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2006
Economic theories of the household predict that increases in female relative human capital lead to decreases in female housework time. However, longitudinal and cross-sectional evidence seems to contradict this implication. Women`s share of home time fails to decrease despite increases in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005047708
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Division of Household Labor and Cross-Country Differences in Household Formation Rates
Sevilla-Sanz, Almudena - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007
This paper explains the existing cross-country differences in household formation rates in industrialized countries by highlighting how an individual`s probability to form a household may be affected by social norms toward the household division of labor. Because social norms are to a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005047882
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Conspicuous Consumption and Peer Effects among the Poor: Evidence From a Field Experiment
Roth, Christopher P. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014
I use a randomised conditional cash transfer program from Indonesia to provide evidence on peer effects in consumption of poor households.  I combine this with consumption visibility data from Indonesia to examine whether peer effects in consumption differ by a good's visibility.  In line with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011164425
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Unemployment duration, job search and labour market segmentation.  Evidence from urban Ethiopia
Serneels, Pieter - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008
Although it is a common theoretical assumption that the chances to find a job fall with time in unmeployment, this is not systematically confirmed by empirical evidence, and there is no evidence for developing countries.  We develop a farmework that allows us to test the four major explanations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004427
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Explaining Non-Negative Duration Dependence Among the Unemployed
Serneels, Pieter - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2002
unemployment benefits, the existence of Active Labour Market Policies, the change in labour demand, segmentation of the labour … market, and unemployment as a queuing phenomenon. We test each of these explanations and find that labour market segmentation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604938
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The Added Worker Effect and Intrahousehold Aspects of Unemployment
Serneels, Pieter - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2002
The added worker effect states that unemployment of a household member leads to an increase in labour supply of another … have more entitlements, waiting in unemployment for a good job is not one of them. We carry out two separate analyses to … no added worker effect. This suggests that households have other ways to cope with unemployment and is consistent with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010605211
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Race and the Oncidence of Unemployment in South Africa
Kingdon, Geeta; Knight, John - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2001
South Africa’s unemployment rate is one of the highest in the world, and it has important distributional implications …. The paper examines the incidence of unemployment using two national household surveys for the mid-1990s. Both entry to … unemployment and the duration of unemployment are examined. A probit model of the determinants of unemployment is estimated: it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010605257
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The Nature of Unemployment in Urban Ethiopia
Serneels, Pieter - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2004
With around 50% of the urban men between age 15 and 30 unemployed, Ethiopia has one of the highest unemployment rates … worldwide. This paper describes the nature of unemployment among young men in urban Ethiopia. We analyse the determinants of … incidence and duration and find that most variables have the same effect on both. Unemployment is concentrated among relatively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010605273