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tightly controlled laboratory labor market experiment demonstrates that prior employment information allows employers to …We study whether employment history provides information about a worker's "work attitude," i.e., the tendency to act … attitude and that this information is transmitted through employment histories. We find support for this hypothesis across …
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We analyze the wellbeing socio-economic characteristics of Ukrainian refugees in Poland and compare them with their co … current conflict affects socio-economic outcomes of refugees and stayers. We find that the refugees are less well-off both … become refugees, suggesting that they move preemptively, due to the threat of violence, and not after having experienced it …
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by behavioral adjustments yet which are of considerable importance to one’s quality of life: employment, earnings and …
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Despite the increasing importance of occupations that rely heavily on interpersonal interaction, the impact of heat on team production relative to individual production remains largely unexplored. Heat can affect team and individual production in distinct ways, potentially increasing aggression,...
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Civil servants have a bad reputation of being lazy. However, citizens' personal experiences with civil servants appear to be significantly better. We develop a model of an economy in which workers differ in laziness and in public service motivation, and characterise optimal incentive contracts...
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The neoclassical model in economics envisages humans as amoral and self-regarding (Econs). This model, also known as the homo-economicus model, is not consistent with the empirical evidence. In light of the evidence, the continued use of the homo-economicus model is baffling. It also stymies...
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In this paper, we study how forced migration impacts the in-group and out-group social capital of Syrian refugees and … the host population in Northern Lebanon by administering a novel survey experiment in which we manipulate the salience of … the migration experience (for refugees) and the refugee crisis (for the host population). Additionally, we study the …
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Lebanon is the country with the highest density of refugees in the world, raising the question of whether the host and … refugee populations can cooperate harmoniously. We conduct a lab-in-thefield experiment in Lebanon studying intra- and inter …-group behavior of Syrian refugees and Lebanese nationals in a repeated public good game without and with punishment. We find that …
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In recent years, Europe has experienced an unprecedented influx of refugees. While natives' attitudes toward refugees … refugees' characteristics. We conducted survey experiments with more than 5,000 university students in Germany in which we … exogenously shifted participants' beliefs about refugees' education level through information provision. Consistent with economic …
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We study out-group biases in attitudes toward refugees, and the effect of European Union (EU) immigration policies on … these views, using an online survey experiment including 4,087 Italian participants. We assess attitudes using donations to … a randomly assigned group: Italian victims of violence or refugees fleeing wars in Ukraine or African countries. We also …
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