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The Short- and Long-Run Determinants of Less-Educated Immigration into U.S. States
Simpson, Nicole B.; Sparber, Chad - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
differences in (short-term) GDP fluctuations between origin countries and U.S. states, and perhaps to (long-term) trend GDP … differences as well. More specifically, short-run GDP fluctuations pull less-educated male immigrants into certain U.S. states …, whereas GDP trends push less-educated male immigrants out of their countries of origin. Effects for less-educated women are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279271
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Home Sweet Home? Macroeconomic Conditions in Home Countries and the Well-Being of Migrants
Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
-being responds negatively (positively) to an increase in the GDP (unemployment rate) of their home country. That is, we originally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734424
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Organizations, Diffused Pivotality and Immoral Outcomes
Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...
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Envy and Compassion in Tournaments
Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Many experiments indicate that most individuals are not purely motivated by material self interest, but also care about the well being of others. In this paper we examine tournaments among inequity averse agents, who dislike disadvantageous inequity (envy) and advantageous inequity (compassion)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566433
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Treating Equals Unequally: Incentives in Teams, Workers' Motivation and Production Technology
Goerg, Sebastian; Kube, Sebastian; Zultan, Ro'i - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
results demonstrate that unequal rewards can potentially increase productivity by facilitating coordination, and that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566518
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Optimal Incentive Contracts under Inequity Aversion
Englmaier, Florian; Wambach, Achim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
simple rationale for team based incentives in many environments. Fourth, the Sufficient Statistics Result is violated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566722
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Causes of Changing Earnings Inequality
Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999
This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand-supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703214
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Driving Forces Behind Informal Sanctions
Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper investigates the driving forces behind informal sanctions in cooperation games and the extent to which theories of fairness and reciprocity capture these forces. We find that cooperators’ punishment is almost exclusively targeted towards the defectors but the latter also impose a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703785
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Determinants of Inter-Country Internet Diffusion Rates
Wunnava, Phanindra V.; Leiter, Daniel B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper employs cross-sectional data from 100 countries to analyze the main determinants of inter-country Internet diffusion rates. We set up an empirical model based on strong theoretical foundations, in which we regress Internet usage on variables that capture social, economic and political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822942
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The Welfare Impact of Price Changes on Household Welfare and Inequality 1999-2010
Loughrey, Jason; O'Donoghue, Cathal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper provides a single welfare measure to show the effects of consumer price changes upon households in Ireland between 1999 and 2010. This measure combines an efficiency component using a Linear Expenditure System (LES) and an equity component using the Atkinson Social Welfare Function....
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