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Material Incentives and Effort Choice : Evidence from an Online Experiment Across Countries

Davies, Elwyn; Fafchamps, Marcel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We conduct an interactive online experiment framed as an employment contract between employer and worker. Subjects from the US, India, and Africa are matched in pairs within and, in some cases, across countries. Employers make a one-period offer to a worker who can either decline or choose a...

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Health and Safety vs. Freedom of Contract : The Tortured Path of Wage and Hours Limits Through the State Legislatures and the Courts

Fishback, Price - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The paper examines changes in wage and hour labor regulation between 1898 and 1938. Many see the 1905 Lochner Supreme Court decision striking down hours limits for men as the beginning of 30 years in which labor regulation was stymied by the doctrine of "freedom of contract." That issue played a...

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Gambling Away Stability : Sports Betting's Impact on Vulnerable Households

Baker, Scott; Balthrop, Justin; Johnson, Mark J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We estimate the causal effect of online sports betting on households' investment, spending, and debt management … decisions using household transaction data and a staggered difference-in-differences framework. Following legalization, sports …, available credit decreases, and overdraft frequency rises. Our findings highlight the potential adverse effects of online sports …

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Athletes Greatly Benefit from Participation in Sports at the College and Secondary Level

Heckman, James J.; Loughlin, Colleen P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

participation in sports for student athletes. Anecdotes about the exploitation of student athletes were cited in the opinion. This …

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Conflict in Dismissals

Carry, Pauline; Schoefer, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

How do the employer and the worker interact during a dismissal? This paper tests whether they cooperate to minimize costs, or instead engage in conflict--i.e., deliberately amplify costs. We leverage a unique feature of the French labor market: an employer and a worker can jointly opt to replace...

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Uber vs. Taxi : A Driver’s Eye View

Angrist, Joshua D. - 2017

Ride-hailing drivers pay a proportion of their fares to the ride-hailing platform operator, a commission-based compensation model used by many internet-mediated service providers. To Uber drivers, this commission is known as the Uber fee. By contrast, traditional taxi drivers in most US cities...

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The Effects of Wage Contracts on Workplace Misbehaviors : Evidence from a Call Center Natural Field Experiment

Flory, Jeffrey A. - 2016

Workplace misbehaviors are often governed by explicit monitoring and strict punishment. Such enforcement activities can serve to lessen worker productivity and harm worker morale. We take a different approach to curbing worker misbehavior--bonuses. Examining more than 6500 donor phone calls...

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Optimal Employment Contracts with Hidden Search

Lentz, Rasmus - 2014

In this paper I explore optimal employment contract design in a random search framework, where workers search on and off the job for employment opportunities similar to that of Lentz (2010) and Bagger and Lentz (2013). The worker determines the frequency by which employment opportunities arrive...

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How Does China's New Labor Contract Law Affect Floating Workers?

Freeman, Richard B. - 2013

China's new Labor Contract Law took effect on January 2008 and required firms to give migrant workers written contracts, strengthened labor protections for workers and contained penalties for firms that did not follow the labor code. This paper uses survey data of migrant workers in the Pearl...

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Limited Capital Market Participation and Human Capital Risk

Berk, Jonathan - 2010

The non-tradability of human capital is often cited for the failure of traditional asset pricing theory to explain agents' portfolio holdings. In this paper we argue that the opposite might be true --- traditional models might not be able to explain agent portfolio holdings because they do not...

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