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Bonus Culture: Competitive Pay, Screening, and Multitasking
Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
talented workers leads to an escalating reliance on performance pay and other high-powered incentives, thereby shifting effort … distorts incentives downward in order to extract rents. More generally, as declining market frictions lead employers to compete …, while inequality tends to rise monotonically. Bonus caps and income taxes can help restore balance in agents' incentives and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010635587
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Worker Identity, Employment Fluctuations and Stabilization Policy
Snower, Dennis J.; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
them to change their work ethic. In switching from a pro-work to an anti-work identity, their incentives to seek and retain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884315
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Cultural Integration: Experimental Evidence of Changes in Immigrants' Preferences
Cameron, Lisa A.; Erkal, Nisvan; Gangadharan, Lata; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Cultural traits play a significant role in the determination of economic outcomes and institutions. This paper presents evidence from laboratory experiments on the cultural integration of individuals of Chinese ethnicity in Australia, focusing on social preferences, preferences for competition,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279296
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Intergenerational Education Transmission: Neighborhood Quality and/or Parents’ Involvement?
Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We develop a model that analyzes the impact of residential neighborhood and parents’ involvement in education on children’s educational attainment and test it using the UK National Child Development Study. We find that the better the quality of the neighborhood, the higher the parents’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761919
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk and Trust Attitudes
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We investigate whether two crucial determinants of economic decision making – willingness to take risks and willingness to trust other people – are transmitted from parents to children. Our evidence is based on survey questions that ask about these attitudes directly, and are good measures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762390
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Does Culture Affect Unemployment? Evidence from the Röstigraben
Brügger, Beatrix; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local comparisons across a language barrier in Switzerland. This Röstigraben separates cultural groups, but neither labor markets nor political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005039654
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Parental Investment and the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Preferences and Attitudes
Zumbühl, Maria; Dohmen, Thomas; Pfann, Gerard A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We study empirically whether there is scope for parents to shape the economic preferences and attitudes of their children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children, as well as rich information about parental efforts in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010676290
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The Evolution of Secularization: Cultural Transmission, Religion and Fertility Theory, Simulations and Evidence
Bar-El, Ronen; García Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
-attendance and by rare-prayer), lending support to corollaries derived from the theory and simulations. The main conclusions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568286
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Social Networks and Parental Behavior in the Intergenerational Transmission of Religion
Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We analyze the intergenerational transmission of the strength of religion focusing on the interplay between family and peer effects. We develop a theoretical model suggesting that both peer quality and parental effort are of importance for the religious behavior of the children. We then bring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147298
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Migrant Women on the Labour Market: On the Role of Home- and Host-Country Participation
Kok, Suzanne; Bosch, Nicole; Deelen, Anja; Euwals, Rob - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The behaviour of migrant women on the labour market is influenced by a variety of factors, among which the culture of the home and host country. Part of the literature investigates the role of home-country culture. This study extends the literature by including a measure for the influence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151022