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Gender Based Taxation and the Division of Family Chores
Alesina, Alberto; Karabarbounis, Loukas; Ichino, Andrea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Gender Based Taxation (GBT) satisfies Ramsey’s optimal criterion by taxing less the more elastic labor supply of (married) women. This holds when different elasticities between men and women are taken as exogenous and primitive. But in this paper we also explore differences in gender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822616
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Lessons from the Ottoman Harem (On Ethnicity, Religion and War)
Iyigun, Murat - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
examine the roles of ethnicity and religion in conflict and war. Based on one theory, the Ottoman conquests were driven by the … fronts, more conflicts were started by its rivals. Another not necessarily mutually exclusive theory claims that the Imperial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763535
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Is It Money or Brains? The Determinants of Intra-Family Decision Power
Bertocchi, Graziella; Brunetti, Marianna; Torricelli, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We empirically study the determinants of intra-household decision power with respect to economic and financial choices using a suitable direct measure provided in the 1989-2010 Bank of Italy Survey of Household Income and Wealth. Focusing on a sample of couples, we evaluate the effect of each...
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Identity Changes and the Efficiency of Reputation Systems
Wibral, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Reputation systems aim to induce honest behavior in online trade by providing information about past conduct of users …. Online reputation, however, is not directly connected to a person, but only to the virtual identity of that person. Users can … therefore shed a negative reputation by creating a new account. We study the effects of such identity changes on the efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884234
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Reputations, Relationships and the Enforcement of Incomplete Contracts
MacLeod, W. Bentley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper discusses the literature on the enforcement of incomplete contracts. It compares legal enforcement to enforcement via relationships and reputations. A number of mechanisms, such as the repeat purchase mechanism (Klein and Leffler (1981)) and efficiency wages (Shapiro and Stiglitz...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233793
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Transparency and Reciprocal Behavior in Employment Relations
Irlenbusch, Bernd; Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
The impact of transparency on the extent of reciprocal behavior is investigated in a simple repeated gift exchange experiment, where principals set wages and agents respond by choosing effort levels. In addition to the efforts the principals’ payoffs are determined by a random component. It is...
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Laws and Norms
Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences ("values"), material or other explicit incentives ("laws") and social sanctions or rewards ("norms"). It first examines how honor, stigma and social norms arise from individuals'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646323
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Dynamic Incentive Contracts under Parameter Uncertainty
Prat, Julien; Jovanovic, Boyan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We analyze a long-term contracting problem involving common uncertainty about a parameter capturing the productivity of the relationship, and featuring a hidden action for the agent. We develop an approach that works for any utility function when the parameter and noise are normally distributed...
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Mixed Up? That's Good for Motivation
Koch, Alexander K.; Peyrache, Eloic - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
An essential ingredient in models of career concerns is ex ante uncertainty about an agent's type. This paper shows how career concerns can arise even in the absence of any such ex ante uncertainty, if the unobservable actions that an agent takes influence his future productivity. By...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703606
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From Team Spirit to Jealousy: The Pitfalls of Too Much Transparency
Koch, Alexander K.; Morgenstern, Albrecht - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Free riding in team production arises because individual effort is not perfectly observable. It seems natural to suppose that greater transparency would enhance incentives. Therefore, it is puzzling that team production often lacks transparency about individual contributions despite negligible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703696