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Soziale Gerechtigkeit durch Leistung und Gegenleistung: Workfare im Niedriglohnbereich

Peichl, Andreas; Schneider, Hilmar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Ökonomische Effizienz und soziale Gerechtigkeit stehen nicht im Widerspruch zueinander. Workfare ist sozial gerecht. Durch das Prinzip von Leistung und Gegenleistung wird dafür gesorgt, dass sich die Inanspruchnahme von Leistungen der Grundsicherung auf diejenigen beschränkt, die tatsächlich...

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Social Protection beyond the Bottom Billion

Murphy, Susan; Walsh, Patrick Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Most conceptualisations of the bottom billion assume that "the poor" are a minority group in a state of continuous dependency, identifiable by region and demographic. Using a flow analysis (inflow and outflow) of poverty, rather than a stock analysis, we explain why poverty is more appropriately...

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Equity and Equality

Duclos, Jean-Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Is horizontal equity (HE) the "most widely accepted principle of equity"? Or does it stand in "opposition to the advancement of human welfare"? This paper argues that the case for the HE principle is not as straightforward as is usually thought and that it requires advanced notions of justice...

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Gender Differences in Cooperation: Experimental Evidence on High School Students

Molina, José Alberto; Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

cooperation than male students. …

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Cooperation in Diverse Teams: The Role of Temporary Group Membership

Grund, Christian; Harbring, Christine; Thommes, Kirsten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

temporary contract, while others are permanent members of the same team. In a laboratory experiment we analyze the cooperation …

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Ambiguity on Audits and Cooperation in a Public Goods Game

Dai, Zhixin; Hogarth, Robin M.; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We investigate the impact of various audit schemes on the future provision of public goods, when contributing less than the average of the group is sanctioned exogenously and the probability of an audit is unknown. We study how individuals update their beliefs about the probability of being...

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Trusting Former Rebels: An Experimental Approach to Understanding Reintegration after Civil War

Bauer, Michal; Fiala, Nathan; Levely, Ian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

of cooperation during war, we find that individual cooperativeness robustly increases with the length of time a person …

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Higher Intelligence Groups Have Higher Cooperation Rates in the Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma

Proto, Eugenio; Rustichini, Aldo; Sofianos, Andis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

initial cooperation rates are similar, it increases in the groups with higher intelligence to reach almost full cooperation … differences in the response to past cooperation of the partner. In higher intelligence subjects, cooperation after the initial … difference is absent. Cooperation of higher intelligence subjects is payoff sensitive, thus not automatic: in a treatment with …

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Competitive Work Environments and Social Preferences: Field Experimental Evidence from a Japanese Fishing Community

Carpenter, Jeffrey; Seki, Erika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

different amounts of competition on-the-job and that these differences explain differences in cooperation in our experiment …, perceptions of competition faced on-the-job and the treatment effect of job incentives explain these differences in cooperation to …

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The Effect of Religion on Cooperation and Altruistic Punishment: Experimental Evidence from Public Goods Experiments

Akay, Alpaslan; Karabulut, Gökhan; Martinsson, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper experimentally examines how religious festivals and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and … religious festivals other than the normal daily prayers. The overall results show no differences in cooperation or altruistic … differences in beliefs about others contributions. By and large, this indicates the importance of conditional cooperation. …

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