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The Changing Nature of Employment-Related Sexual Harassment: Evidence from the U.S. Federal Government (1978-1994)

Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

This paper examines the changing nature of views towards and reports of sexual harassment using unique data drawn from the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (USMSPB) of the U.S. Federal Government over the period from 1978-1994. Our results indicate that while federal government employees...

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Gender-Biased Behavior at Work: What Can Surveys Tell Us About the Link Between Sexual Harassment and Gender Discrimination?

Antecol, Heather; Barcus, Vanessa E.; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

job dissatisfaction, particularly amongst men. While women who experience gender discrimination are somewhat more likely …

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The Sexual Harassment of Female Active-Duty Personnel: Effects on Job Satisfaction and Intentions to Remain in the Military

Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

-duty women in the U.S. military using unique data from a survey of the incidence of unwanted gender-related behavior conducted by … the U.S. Department of Defense. Overall, 70.9 percent of active-duty women reported experiencing some type of sexually …-equation estimates of the effect of the sexually harassing behavior to be overstated. Similarly, including women’s views about whether or …

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Diversity and Public Goods: A Natural Experiment with Exogenous Residential Allocation

Algan, Yann; Hémet, Camille; Laitin, David D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper demonstrates the effects of ethnic and religious diversity on the quality of public spaces. Its identification strategy relies on the exogeneity of public housing allocations in France, and thereby eliminates the bias from endogenous sorting. The paper uses micro evidence of social...

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The Economics of Labor Market Intermediation: An Analytic Framework

Autor, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Labor Market Intermediaries (LMIs) are entities or institutions that interpose themselves between workers and firms to facilitate, inform, or regulate how workers are matched to firms, how work is accomplished, and how conflicts are resolved. This paper offers a conceptual foundation for...

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The Economics of Altruistic Punishment and the Demise of Cooperation

Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this...

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Caste and Punishment: The Legacy of Caste Culture in Norm Enforcement

Hoff, Karla; Kshetramade, Mayuresh; Fehr, Ernst - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Well-functioning groups enforce social norms that restrain opportunism, but the social structure of a society may encourage or inhibit norm enforcement. Here we study how the exogenous assignment to different positions in an extreme social hierarchy – the caste system – affects individuals'...

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Why Does Ethnic Diversity Undermine Public Goods Provision? An Experimental Approach

Habyarimana, James; Humphreys, Macartan; Posner, Daniel N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

A large and growing literature links high levels of ethnic diversity to low levels of public goods provision. Yet while the empirical connection between ethnic heterogeneity and the underprovision of public goods is widely accepted, there is little consensus on the specific mechanisms through...

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Public Goods Provision and Sanctioning in Privileged Groups

Reuben, Ernesto; Riedl, Arno - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

In public good provision, privileged groups enjoy the advantage that some of its members find it optimal to supply a positive amount of the public good. However, their inherent asymmetric nature may make the enforcement of cooperative behavior through informal sanctioning harder to accomplish....

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Accounting for Peer Effects in Treatment Response

Dieye, Rokhaya; Djebbari, Habiba; Barrera-Osorio, Felipe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

When one's treatment status affects the outcomes of others, experimental data are not sufficient to identify a treatment causal impact. In order to account for peer effects in program response, we use a social network model. We estimate and validate the model on experimental data collected for...

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