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Do employers trust workers too little? An experimental study of trust in the labour market

Falco, Paolo; Caria, Stefano A. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

We conduct a field experiment to investigate employers' trust in workers. A sample of real entrepreneurs and workers …

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Changes Over Time in Union Relative Wage Effects in Great Britain and the United States.

Blanchflower, D-G - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1997

Estimates are produced for differences between the ceteris paribus earnings of union and non-union workers in the UK and the US over time.

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Increasing Wage Inequality in China: Efficiency Versus Equity?.

Knight, J.; Song, L. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1999

Increasing wage inequality is a feature of many economies in recent years, and the same is true of China. Whereas in most countries it is normally interpreted as a move from one market equilibrium to another, in China it is more likely to reflect a move away from extreme disequilibirum. Two...

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Joining the EU: Capital Flows, Migration and Wages

Batista, Catia - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

measure the impact of foreign investment and emigration on skilled and unskilled wages between 1985 and 1999. We find a small …

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Does Housework Lower Wages and Why? Evidence for Britain

Sevilla-Sanz, Almudena; Bryan, Mark L. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

lesser-studied and more direct effect of household activities on wages. In a broad economic sense, household activities … require effort, which decreases labour market productivity and thus wages. This paper first documents the relationship between … housework and wages in Britain and applies a variety of econometric techniques to pin down the effect of housework on wages. It …

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Wages and Reciprocity in the Workplace

Barr, Abigail; Serneels, Pieter - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2004

We explore the role of reciprocity in wage determination by combining experimental and survey data. The experiment is … reciprocity and individual wages. However, the direction of causality is unclear. Various aspects of the distribution of the … reciprocity have a positive effect on wages, while the spread in the distribution (standard deviation) has a strong significant …

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Homo Aequalis: A Cross-Society Experimental Analysis of Three Bargaining Games

Barr, Abigail; Wallace, Chris - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2009

Data from three bargaining games - the Dictator Game, the Ultimatum Game, and the Third-Party Punishment Game - played in 15 societies are presented. The societies range from US undergraduates to Amazonian, Arctic, and African hunter-gatherers. Behaviour within the games varies markedly...

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Combining Top-down and Bottom-up Accountability: Evidence from a Bribery Experiment

Serra, Danila - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008

Monitoring corruption typically relies on top-down interventions aimed at increasing the probability of external … controls and the severity of punishment. An alternative approach to fighting corruption is to induce bottom-up pressure for …-down auditing using data from a specifically designed bribery lab experiment. We compare "public officials" tendency to ask for …

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Contract Design in Insurance Groups

Dercon, Stefan; Bold, Tessa - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2009

In many rural settings, informal mutual support networks have evolved into semiformal insurance groups, such as funeral societies. Using detailed panel data for six villages in Ethiopia, we can distinguish two types of contracts, in terms of whether payments are only made at the time of death...

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Reputation in the Market for Stolen Data

Mell, Andrew - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2012

Internet commerce has made it easier to compare prices and shop online. However, it has also exposed consumers to a new kind of crime in the form of the electronic theft of payment details. However the skills required to successfully intercept payment data differ from the skills required to...

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