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The tragedy of corruption
Chen, Yefeng; Jiang, Shuguang; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2016
We investigate corruption as a social dilemma by means of a bribery game in which a risk of collective sanction of the … over time. Reducing the size of the groups while increasing the probability of collective sanction diminishes the officials …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528171
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When do gender wage differences emerge? : a study of Azerbaijan's labor market
Pastore, Francesco; Sattar, Sarosh; Sinha, Nistha; … - 2016
Building on recent analyses that find a sizeable, overall gender wage gap in Azerbaijan's workforce, this paper uses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450099
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International labor standards and the political economy of child labor regulation
Doepke, Matthias (contributor);  … - 2008
Child labor is a persistent phenomenon in many developing countries. In recent years, support has been growing among rich-country governments and consumer groups for the use of trade policies, such as product boycotts and the imposition of international labor standards, to reduce child labor in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003760253
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Employment effects of economic sanctions in Iran
Moghaddasi Kelishomi, Ali; Nisticò, Roberto - 2021
This paper investigates the effect of economic sanctions on employment. We exploit the imposition of a series of unexpected and unprecedented international economic sanctions on Iran in 2012 and estimate the short-run effects of the change in import exposure on manufacturing employment at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012670656
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Employer sanctions: a policy with a pitfall?
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 2021
This chapter investigates the impact of the imposition of sanctions for employing illegal migrants on the welfare of native laborers. In response to such sanctions, managers in a firm may be reassigned from the supervision of production to the verification of the legality of the firm's labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012623843
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Under heavy pressure : intense monitoring and accumulation of sanctions for young welfare recipients in Germany
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Uhlendorff, Arne; Wolff, Joachim - 2017
cash benefit is withdrawn for three months. A second sanction of the same type within one year implies a complete benefit … unobservables into account. Our results suggest that both the first and the second sanction increase the probability of finding a … job, but that these jobs go along with lower earnings due to first but not the second sanction. Moreover, first sanctions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641799
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Who is to suffer? : quantifying the impact of sanctions on German firms
Görg, Holger; Jacobs, Anna; Mösle, Saskia - 2023
and performance of German firms. More specifically, we study the sanctions imposed by the EU against Russia in 2014 in … response to the annexation of Crimea and Russia's countermeasures. We find a substantial negative effect on both the extensive … dependent on Russia as an export market and those directly affected by the sanctions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014279934
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Economic sanctions and informal employment
Moghaddasi Kelishomi, Ali; Nisticò, Roberto - 2023
This paper examines how economic sanctions affect the allocation of workers across formal and informal employment. We analyse the case of the unprecedented sanctions imposed on Iran in 2012. Employing a difference-in-differences approach, we compare the probability of being employed in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014423808
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International sanctions and labor emigration : a case study of Iran
Zareei, Afsaneh; Falahi, Mohammad Ali; Wadensjö, Eskil; … - 2024
Sanctions have severe adverse effects on societies. Even though sanctions are used against governments, the population is punished for its government's behavior. Sanctions can create problems due to international migration. Iran is an unique case study because it faced the most and hardest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014550382
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Prison norms and society beyond bars
Ananyev, Maxim; Poyker, Michael - 2024
Inmates' informal code regulates their behavior and attitudes. We investigate whether prisons contribute to the spread of these norms to the general population using an exogenous shock of the Soviet amnesty of 1953, which released 1.2 million prisoners. We document the spread of prison norms in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014582234