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The labour supply effect of education maintenance allowance and its implications for parental altruism
Holford, Angus - 2015
Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) was a UK government cash transfer paid directly to children aged 16-18, in the first two years of post-compulsory full-time education. This paper uses the labour supply effect of EMA to infer the magnitude of the transfer response made by the parent, and so...
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Preferences and perceptions in provision and maintenance public goods
Gächter, Simon; Kölle, Felix; Quercia, Simone - 2022
We study two generic versions of public goods problems: in Provision problems, the public good does not exist initially and needs to be provided; in Maintenance problems, the public good already exists and needs to be maintained. In five lab and online experiments (n=2,584), we document a robust...
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Competition, group identity, and social networks in the workplace : evidence from a Chinese textile firm
Kato, Takao; Shu, Pian - 2011
Using data on team assignment and weekly output for all weavers in an urban Chinese textile firm between April 2003 and March 2004, this paper studies a) how randomly assigned teammates affect an individual worker's behavior under a tournament-style incentive scheme, and b) how such effects...
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More is better! : what can firm-specific estimates of the impact of institutional quality on performance tell us?
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Dimova, Ralitza; Kumbhakar, Subal; … - 2014
We introduce a novel approach to modeling the impact of institutional quality on firm performance. Our methodology enables us to estimate the marginal effect of institutional quality on TFP, factor inputs and output of each firm, which gives us within-country distributions of these effects and...
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Good and bad institutions : is the debate over? ; cross-country firm-level evidence from the textile industry
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Dimova, Ralitza - 2011
Using firm-level data from nine developing countries we demonstrate that (a) certain institutions like restrictive labour market regulations that are considered to be bad for economic growth might be beneficial for production efficiency, whereas (b) good business environment which is considered...
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Performance spillovers and social network in the workplace : evidence from rural and urban weavers in a Chinese textile firm
Kato, Takao (contributor); Shu, Pian (contributor) - 2008
We provide some of the first rigorous evidence on performance spillovers and social network in the workplace. The data we use are rather extraordinary - weekly data for rejection rates (proportion of defective output) for all weavers in a firm during a 12 months (April 2003-March 2004) period,...
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The elite and the marginalised : an analysis of public spending on mass education in the Indian States
Pal, Sarmistha (contributor); Ghosh, Sugata (contributor) - 2008
-development spending ; India …
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Caste based discrimination : evidence and policy
Siddique, Zahra (contributor) - 2008
Caste-based quotas in hiring have existed in the public sector in India for decades. Recently there has been debate …
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Union membership effect on wage premiums : evidence from organized manufacturing industries in India
Bhandari, Amit Kumar (contributor) - 2008
organised manufacturing industries in India. The study uses a recent survey data on labour market in the organised manufacturing … benefits in the organized manufacturing industries in India. -- Trade unions ; wage differentials ; manufacturing …
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Child work and schooling costs in rural Northern India
Hazarika, Gautam (contributor);  … - 2006
children's propensities to work and to attend school in rural northern India in a bid to assess the extent of trade-off between … activities. Thus, unlike recent studies of child work in India's South Asian neighbors of Bangladesh and Pakistan, this paper … uncovers evidence of substantial trade-off between child work and school attendance. -- child labor ; schooling costs ; India …
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