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Social Identity and Inequality: The Impact of China's Hukou System
Afridi, Farzana; Li, Sherry Xin; Ren, Yufei - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
economic incentives. We focus on China's household registration (hukou) system which favors urban residents and discriminates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884157
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Gender Differences in Cognition in China and Reasons for Change over Time: Evidence from CHARLS
Lei, Xiaoyan; Smith, James P.; Sun, Xiaoting; Zhao, Yaohui - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In this paper, we model gender differences in cognitive ability in China using a new sample of middle-aged and older … and are nationally representative of the Chinese population in this age span. Our measures of cognition in CHARLS relies … on two measures that proxy for different dimensions of adult cognition – episodic memory and intact mental status. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744662
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Incentives and Group Identity
Masella, Paolo; Meier, Stephan; Zahn, Philipp - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper investigates in a principal-agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all interactions control mechanisms can have hidden...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252294
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Identities, Conflicting Behavioural Norms and the Importance of Job Attributes
Russo, Giovanni; van Hooft, Edwin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
The paper empirically expounds the richness of the identity approach to labor market behavior by allowing individuals to experience identity conflict. Specifically, it investigates the relationship between the importance individuals attach to labor-market activities – which is influenced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015497
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A Caseworker Like Me: Does the Similarity between Unemployed and Caseworker Increase Job Placements?
Behncke, Stefanie; Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper examines whether the chances of job placements improve if unemployed persons are counselled by caseworkers who belong to the same social group, defined by gender, age, education, and nationality. Based on an unusually informative dataset, which links Swiss unemployed to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822697
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The Impact of Group Membership on Cooperation and Norm Enforcement: Evidence using Random Assignment to Real Social Groups
Goette, Lorenz; Huffman, David; Meier, Stephan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Due to incomplete contracts, efficiency of an organization depends on willingness of individuals to take non-selfish actions, e.g., cooperate when there is no incentive to do so, or punish inefficient actions by others. Organizations also constitute a social boundary, or group. We investigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763566
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Identification, Screening and Stereotyping in Labour Market Discrimination
Vendrik, Maarten; Schwieren, Christiane - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
According to social-psychological research, feelings of uncertainty in decision-making evoke two opposite responses: (i) reduction of uncertainty by information search, leading to less stereotyping of people, and hence less discrimination; (ii) social identification with an ingroup, inducing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008558930
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Criminal Victims, Victimized Criminals, or Both? A Deeper Look at the Victim-Offender Overlap
Entorf, Horst - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Offenders are more likely than non-offenders to be victims, and victims are more likely than non-victims to be offenders. The overlap between offenders and victims is not well understood in criminology, and in the economics of crime the stylized empirical fact is even widely ignored. The paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010701326
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Cognitive Ability, Character Skills, and Learning to Play Equilibrium: A Level-k Analysis
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
ability to that of character skills, and find that both cognition and personality affect behavior and learning. More agreeable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886141
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Hard Evidence on Soft Skills
Heckman, James J.; Kautz, Tim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper summarizes recent evidence on what achievement tests measure; how achievement tests relate to other measures of "cognitive ability" like IQ and grades; the important skills that achievement tests miss or mismeasure, and how much these skills matter in life. Achievement tests miss, or...
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