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Understanding the Workweek of Foreign Born Workers in the United States
Lozano, Fernando A. - 2009
I analyze the length of the workweek of foreign-born workers in the U.S. I concentrate on workers supplying long hours of work − 50 or more weekly hours and document that immigrants are less likely than natives to work long hours. Surprisingly, these differences are greatest among highly...
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Southern African Economic Integration : Evidence from an Augmented Gravity Model
Warin, Thierry - 2009
This paper investigates the feasibility of creating a common-currency union consisting of 16 countries in Southern Africa. We estimate an augmented-gravity model that includes public deficit, public debt, public expenditure, inflation, and the foreign reserves position. We also integrate...
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Enterprising Women in Southern Africa : When Does Land Ownership Matter?
Brixiová, Zuzana - 2020
Limited access to finance is one of the major barriers for women entrepreneurs in Africa. This paper presents a model of start-ups in which firms' sales and profits depend on their productivity and access to credit. However, due to the lack of collateral assets such as land, female entrepreneurs...
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Job Satisfaction Among Young Workers in Eastern and Southern Africa : A Comparative Analysis
McKay, Andrew D. - 2018
The creation of job opportunities for the increasingly educated youth population is a major current policy challenge in sub-Saharan Africa, even though very little is known about the extent to which young workers in the region are satisfied with the employment they currently have. This paper...
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Emotions, Sanctions and Cooperation
Joffily, Mateus - 2011
We use skin conductance responses and self-reports of hedonic valence to study the emotional basis of cooperation and punishment in a social dilemma. Emotional reaction to free-riding incites individuals to apply sanctions when they are available. The application of sanctions activates a...
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Certainty and Severity of Sanctions in Classical and Behavioral Models of Deterrence : A Survey
Entorf, Horst - 2012
This survey summarizes the classical fundamentals of modern deterrence theory, covers major theoretical and empirical findings on the impact of certainty and severity of punishment (and the interplay thereof) as well as underlying methodological problems, gives an overview of limitations and...
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Sanctions for Young Welfare Recipients
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2013
these obligations, a sanction involving a punitive benefits reduction may be imposed. In this paper we give an overview of … on job finding probabilities. Our results suggest that each type of sanction leads to an increased transition rate to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074831
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Under Heavy Pressure : Intense Monitoring and Accumulation of Sanctions for Young Welfare Recipients in Germany
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 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 …
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Peers or Police? Detection and Sanctions in the Provision of Public Goods
DeAngelo, Gregory - 2018
sanction those who are detected performing the bad act of free-riding. There has been considerable research on the type of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918262
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Public Goods Provision and Sanctioning in Privileged Groups
Reuben, Ernesto; Riedl, Arno - 2021
In public good provision, privileged groups enjoy the advantage that some of its members find it optimal to supply a positive amount of the public good. However, their inherent asymmetric nature may make the enforcement of cooperative behavior through informal sanctioning harder to accomplish....
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