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Technological advance, social fragmentation and welfare
Bosworth, Steven; Snower, Dennis J. - 2021
This paper models the welfare consequences of social fragmentation arising from technological advance. We start from the premise that technological progress falls primarily on market-traded commodities rather than prosocial relationships, since the latter intrinsically require the expenditure of...
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Culture, institutions and the wealth of nations
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Roland, Gérard - 2010
We construct an endogenous growth model that includes a cultural variable along the dimension of individualism …-collectivism. The model predicts that more individualism leads to more innovation because of the social rewards associated with …. Collectivism leads to efficiency gains relative to individualism, but these gains are static, unlike the dynamic effect of …
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Dishonesty as a collective-risk social dilemma
Jiang, Shuguang; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2022
We study cheating as a collective-risk social dilemma in a group setting in which individuals are asked to report their actual outcomes. Misreporting their outcomes increases the individual's earnings but when the sum of claims in the group reaches a certain threshold, a risk of collective...
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Individualism, human capital formation, and labor market success
Hartinger, Katharina; Resnjanskij, Sven; Ruhose, Jens; … - 2021
There is an ongoing debate about the economic effects of individualism. We establish that individualism leads to better … of individualism by exploiting variation between migrants at the origin country, origin language, and person level … adult education activities. In fact, individualism is more important in explaining adult skill formation than any other …
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Where does profit sharing work best? : a meta-analysis on the role of unions, culture, and values
Doucouliagos, Chris; Laroche, Patrice; Kruse, Douglas L.; … - 2018
highly valued and there are higher levels of individualism. The latter two results suggest profit sharing works best in …
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Individualism and working from home
Bietenbeck, Jan; Irmert, Natalie; Nilsson, Therese - 2024
This paper investigates the role of individualism in explaining cross-country differences in working from home (WFH … the influence of individualism by comparing immigrants from different cultural backgrounds residing in the same location …. We find that a 10-point increase in country-of-origin individualism, measured on a 0-100 scale, is associated with a 3 …
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Employment effects of welfare reforms : evidence from a dynamic structural life-cycle model
Haan, Peter (contributor); Prowse, Victoria (contributor);  … - 2008
In this paper we develop a dynamic structural life-cycle model of labor supply behavior which fully accounts for the effect of income tax and transfers on labor supply incentives. Additionally, the model recognizes the demand side driven rationing risk that might prevent individuals from...
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Social change
Greenwood, Jeremy (contributor); Guner, Nezih (contributor) - 2008
A society is characterized by the common attitudes and behavior of its members. Such behavior reflects purposive decision making by individuals, given the environment they live in. Thus, as technology changes, so might social norms. There were big changes in social norms during the 20th century,...
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Fixed effects bias in panel data estimators
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Jensen, Paul H.; Oguzoglu, Umut; … - 2008
Since little is known about the degree of bias in estimated fixed effects in panel data models, we run Monte Carlo simulations on a range of different estimators. We find that Anderson-Hsiao IV, Kiviet's bias-corrected LSDV and GMM estimators all perform well in both short and long panels....
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Do migrants get good jobs in Australia? : the role of ethnic networks in job search
Mahuteau, Stéphane (contributor);  … - 2008
We study the role of ethnic networks in migrants' job search and the quality of jobs they find in the first years of settlement. We find that there are initial downward movements along the occupational ladder, followed by improvements. As a result of restrictions in welfare eligibility since...
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