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An Experimental Investigation of Wage Taxation and Unemployment in Closed and Open Economies

Riedl, Arno; Winden, Frans van - Tinbergen Instituut

We investigate experimentally the economic effects of wage taxation to finance unemployment benefits for a closed economy and an international economy. The main findings are the following. (i) There is clear evidence of a vicious circle in the dynamic interaction between the wage tax and...

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The Emergence of Social Structure: Employer Information Networks in an Experimental Labor Market

Gerxhani, Klarita; Brandts, Jordi; Schram, Arthur - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

use laboratory experiments to investigate how employers develop social structures for sharing information about the …

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Tax Evasion and the Source of Income

Gërxhani, Klarita; Schram, Arthur - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

, pages 402-422. A series of experiments in Albania and the Netherlands give us the opportunity to compare behavioral … they are audited, there is a fine for underreporting. This experiment was organized (separately) among high school pupils …

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The Effect of Noise in a Performance Measure on Work Motivation

Sloof, Randolph; Praag, C. Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

This paper reports the results of an individual real effort laboratory experiment where subjects are paid for measured …

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Price-setting Power versus Private Information

Sloof, Randolph - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

these predictions, private information appears to have no impact on the investment levels observed in the experiment. A …

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Should the Same Side of the Market always move first in a Transaction? An Experimental Study

Heijden, Eline C.M. van der; Nelissen, Jan H.M.; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2001

This paper investigates whether transactions where the buyer (or the seller) always moves first, andthe seller (or the buyer) always moves second in the exchange gives higher payoffs than exchangesin which it is randomly determined who moves first. We examine the effect of two...

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Rich meets Poor - An International Fairness Experiment

Cappelen, Alexander W.; Moene, Karl Ove; Sørensen, Erik Ø. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

conducted a real effort fairness experiment where people in two of the world's richest countries, Norway and Germany, interacted … directly with people in Uganda and Tanzania, two of the world's poorest countries. In this experiment, the participants were …. First, entitlement considerations are crucial in explaining the distributive behavior of rich people in the experiment …

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Output Commitment through Product Bundling: Experimental Evidence

Hinloopen, Jeroen; Mueller, Wieland; Normann, Hans-Theo - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

This discussion paper resulted in a publication in European Economic Review (2014), 164-180. We analyze the impact of product bundling in experimental markets. One firm has monopoly power in a first market but competes with another firm in a second market. We compare treatments where the...

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Tax Liability Side Equivalence in Gift-Exchange Labor Markets

Riedl, Arno; Tyran, Jean-Robert - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

Tax Liability Side Equivalence (tax LSE) claims that the statutory incidence of a tax is irrelevant for its economic incidence. In gift-exchange labor markets, firms provide a gift to workers by paying high wages, and workers reciprocate by providing high efforts. Tax LSE is theoretically...

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Simple and Complex Gift Exchange in the Laboratory

Heijden, Eline C.M. van der; Nelissen, Jan H.M.; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2001

We examine an experimental gift exchange game in which the players can improve upon theunique no-gifts equilibrium through cooperative gift giving. The main feature of the study is thatthere are two different types of gift exchange, which we call simple and complex exchange,respectively. Complex...

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