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Manzini, Paola; Mariotti, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

they are really the most challenging ones for conventional theory. New developments are emerging both at the theoretical …

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Divorce and the Excess Burden of Lawyers

Halla, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We present a model where divorcing spouses can choose to hire lawyers in their divorce process. Spouses encounter incentives as in the classical prisoners’ dilemma: Despite the zero sum nature of the game and the lawyers’ fees, each spouse has an incentive to hire a lawyer. We propose a...

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Management of Knowledge Workers

Hvide, Hans K.; Kristiansen, Eirik Gaard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We study how firm-specific complementary assets and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main results show when a firm will wish to sue workers that leave with innovative ideas, and the effects of complementary assets on wages and on worker initiative. We...

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Gender, Affect and Intertemporal Consistency: An Experimental Approach

McLeish, Kendra N.; Oxoby, Robert J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We conduct experiments in which participants made multiple intertemporal decisions throughout a seven week period. In … addition to exploring dynamic consistency and the stability of single period discount rates, our experiments introduce a …

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Experiments on Unemployment Benefit Sanctions and Job Search Behavior

Boone, Jan; Sadrieh, Abdolkarim; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper presents the results of an experimental study on unemployment benefit sanctions. The experimental set-up allows us to distinguish between the effect of benefit sanctions once they are imposed (the ex post effect) and the effect that unemployed want to avoid getting a benefit sanction...

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Incentive Design and Trust: Comparing the Effects of Tournament and Team-Based Incentives on Trust

Oxoby, Robert J.; Friedrich, Colette - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

perceived property rights) will affect individuals’ subsequent behavior. In our experiment, bargaining pairs earned endowments …

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Tax Evasion: Cheating Rationally or Deciding Emotionally?

Coricelli, Giorgio; Villeval, Marie Claire; Joffily, Mateus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

experiment shows that emotional arousal, measured by Skin Conductance Responses, increases in the proportion of evaded taxes. The …

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Statistical Discrimination in Labor Markets: An Experimental Analysis

Dickinson, David L.; Oaxaca, Ronald L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

productivity. This paper reports results from controlled laboratory experiments designed to study second-moment statistical …

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Cooperation, Competition, and Risk Attitudes: An Intergenerational Field and Laboratory Experiment

Charness, Gary; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

behavior of juniors (under 30) and seniors (over 50) in both experiments conducted onsite with the employees of two large firms … external validity of conventional laboratory experiments. In general we do not find strong differences in behavior between … workers and non-workers, indicating that laboratory experiments may not be such a bad approximation for the field environment. …

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Identity, Cooperation, and Punishment

McLeish, Kendra N.; Oxoby, Robert J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

paper, we conduct laboratory experiments in which we explore the motivations for and the effects of group identity. We find …

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