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Income Inequality and Job Satisfaction of Full-Time Employees in Germany

Wunder, Christoph; Schwarze, Johannes - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

, individuals prefer inequality within their occupational group. The two effects are interpreted as envy and an information (or …

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On the Escalation and De-Escalation of Conflict

Lacomba, Juan A.; Lagos, Francisco; Reuben, Ernesto; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We introduce three variations of the Hirshleifer-Skaperdas conflict game to study experimentally the effects of post-conflict behavior and repeated interaction on the allocation of effort between production and appropriation. Without repeated interaction, destruction of resources by defeated...

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Contests, NGOs and Decentralizing Aid

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

International donors usually have particular goals they want to achieve with their foreign aid, for example, poverty alleviation. In the international aid story lobbying by potential recipient groups attempting to capture the donor’s support play a potentially important role for...

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On the "Adverse Selection" of Organizations

Kräkel, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

According to New Institutional Economics, two or more individuals will found an organization, if it leads to a benefit compared to market allocation. A natural consequence will then be internal rent seeking. We discuss the interrelation between profits, rent seeking and the foundation of...

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Political Culture and Discrimination in Contests

Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef; Nitzan, Shmuel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Many economic and political decisions are the outcome of strategic contests for a given prize. The nature of such … contests can be determined by a designer who is driven by political considerations with a specific political culture. The main …

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Government and Cities: Contests and the Decentralization of Decision Making

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

’s support. We set up a model of hierarchical contests and compare the implications of a centralized allocation process with a …

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Does It Pay to Work for Free? Wage Returns and Gender Differences in the Market for Volunteers

Cozzi, Guido; Mantovan, Noemi; Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Working as a volunteer is a widespread phenomenon that has both individual and societal benefits. In this paper, we identify the wage returns to working for free by exploiting exogenous variation in rainfall across local area districts in England, Scotland and Wales. Instrumental variables...

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Selfish Altruism, Fierce Cooperation and the Emergence of Cooperative Equilibria from Passing and Shooting

Askitas, Nikos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

There is continuing debate about what explains cooperation and self-sacrifice in nature and in particular in humans. This paper suggests a new way to think about this famous problem. I argue that, for an evolutionary biologist as well as a quantitative social scientist, the triangle of two...

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Transfers within a Three Generations Family: When the Rotten Kids Turn into Altruistic Parents

Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We study exchanges between three overlapping generations with non-dynastic altruism. The middleaged choose informal …

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Intrinsic Motivations of Public Sector Employees: Evidence for Germany

Dur, Robert; Zoutenbier, Robin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We examine differences in altruism and laziness between public sector employees and private sector employees. Our … theoretical model predicts that the likelihood of public sector employment increases with a worker's altruism, and increases or … decreases with a worker's laziness depending on his altruism. Using questionnaire data from the German Socio-Economic Panel …

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