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Is Soccer Good for You? The Motivational Impact of Big Sporting Events on the Unemployed

Doerrenberg, Philipp; Siegloch, Sebastian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We examine the effect of salient international soccer tournaments on the motivation of unemployed individuals to search …

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A Behavioral Account of the Labor Market: The Role of Fairness Concerns

Fehr, Ernst; Goette, Lorenz; Zehnder, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

In this paper, we argue that important labor market phenomena can be better understood if one takes (i) the inherent incompleteness and relational nature of most employment contracts and (ii) the existence of reference-dependent fairness concerns among a substantial share of the population into...

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Do Students Expect Compensation for Wage Risk?

Schweri, Jürg; Hartog, Joop; Wolter, Stefan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We use a unique data set about the wage distribution that Swiss students expect for themselves ex ante, deriving parametric and non-parametric measures to capture expected wage risk. These wage risk measures are unfettered by heterogeneity which handicapped the use of actual market wage...

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Whom to Choose as a Team Mate? A Lab Experiment about In-Group Favouritism

Hammermann, Andrea; Mohnen, Alwine; Nieken, Petra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

The practical relevance of favouritism among students of the same study path is evident in lifelong memberships in … fraternities or sororities or in high donations to faculties. In our study, we focus on the in-group favouritism of students by … examining the trade-off of acting based on in-group favouritism or a performance signal when decisions are made about whom to …

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The Fertility-Sex Ratio Trade-off: Unintended Consequences of Financial Incentives

Anukriti, S - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Lower fertility can translate into a more male-biased sex ratio if son preference is persistent and technology for sex-selection is easily accessible. This paper investigates whether financial incentives can overcome this trade-off in the context of an Indian scheme, Devirupak, that seeks to...

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Financial Student Aid and Enrollment into Higher Education: New Evidence from Germany

Steiner, Viktor; Wrohlich, Katharina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We estimate the elasticity of enrollment into higher education with respect to the amount of means tested student aid (BAfoeG) provided by the federal government using the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP). Potential student aid is derived on the basis of a detailed tax-benefit microsimulation...

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Carrot and Stick: How Reemployment Bonuses and Benefit Sanctions Affect Job Finding Rates

van der Klaauw, Bas; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

To increase their transition from welfare to work, benefit recipients in the municipality of Rotterdam were exposed to various financial incentives, including both carrots to sticks. Once their benefit spell exceeded one year, welfare recipients were entitled to a reemployment bonus if they...

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Reforming the Financial Incentives of the Welfare System

Card, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

This paper summarizes the findings from the Self Sufficiency Project: a large scale social experiment that is being conducted in Canada to evaluate the effect of high-powered financial incentives for full time work among former welfare recipients. The experimental results confirm the importance...

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The Ratio Bias Phenomenon: Fact or Artifact?

Lefèbvre, Mathieu; Vieider, Ferdinand M.; Villeval, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

The ratio bias – according to which individuals prefer to bet on probabilities expressed as a ratio of large numbers to normatively equivalent or superior probabilities expressed as a ratio of small numbers – has recently gained momentum, with researchers especially in health economics...

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Exploitation Aversion: When Financial Incentives Fail to Motivate Agents

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Dolifka, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Empirical studies of the principal-agent relationship find that extrinsic incentives work in many instances, linking rewards to performance increases effort, but that they can also backfire, reducing effort. Intrinsic motivation, the internal drive to work to master a skill or to improve one's...

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