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Discrete Innovation, Continuous Improvement, and Competitive Pressure
Ghosh, Arghya; Kato, Takao; Morita, Hodaka - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, prior studies ignored a distinction between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technology and continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental improvements and modifications made upon the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822187
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How Large Is the Private Sector in Africa? Evidence from National Accounts and Labor Markets
Stampini, Marco; Leung, Ron; Diarra, Setou M.; Pla, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In recent years, the private sector has been recognized as a key engine of Africa's economic development. Yet, the most simple and fundamental question remains unanswered: how large is the African private sector? We present novel estimates of the size of the private sector in 50 African...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416934
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Where to Work? The Role of the Household in Explaining Gender Differences in Labour Market Outcomes
Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N.; Landon-Lane, John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
With the use of panel data constructed from the 1995 and 1997 Bulgarian Integrated Household Surveys, this paper … standing, allowing us to concentrate our attention on the impact of individual and household characteristics in explaining … gender differences in the labour market. We find that household characteristics, rather than alternative explanations such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761916
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Intergenerational Mobility of Housework Time in the United Kingdom
Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; Zhu, Yu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
will devote to housework. However, when endogeneity of the uses of time are considered using the British Household Panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095505
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Labor Supply, Home Production and Welfare Comparisons
Donni, Olivier - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
We consider the collective model of labor supply with marketable domestic production. We first show that, if domestic production is mistakenly ignored, the “collective” indirect utilities that are retrieved from observed behavior will be unbiased if and only if the profit function is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566507
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Cooperative Household Models
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We set out a general framework for cooperative household models, based on Samuelson’s idea of a household welfare … function, but extending it to incorporate the key insight from Nash bargaining models - the idea that the household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566789
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The Power of (No) Recognition: Experimental Evidence from the University Classroom
Hoogveld, Nicky; Zubanov, Nikolay - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We study the effect of recognition on performance with a field experiment involving first-year undergraduate students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884116
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Are Teams Less Inequality Averse than Individuals?
He, Haoran; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We compare inequality aversion in individuals and teams by means of both within- and between-subject experimental designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality aversion than individual initial proposals in team...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884177
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Social Preferences and Lying Aversion in Children
Maggian, Valeria; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
While previous research has shown that social preferences develop in childhood, we study whether this development is accompanied by reduced use of deception when lies would harm others, and increased use of deception to benefit others. In a sample of children aged between 7 and 14, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884178
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The Individual and Joint Performance of Economic Preferences, Personality, and Self-Control in Predicting Criminal Behavior
Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884182