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Gift Exchange within a Firm : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Bellemare, Charles; Shearer, Bruce S. - 2021
We present results from a field experiment testing the gift-exchange hypothesis inside a tree-planting firm paying its workforce incentive contracts. Firm managers told a crew of tree planters they would receive a pay raise for one day as a result of a surplus not attributable to past planting...
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The Distribution of Top Incomes in Five Anglo-Saxon Countries Over the Twentieth Century
Atkinson, Anthony B. - 2010
that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141780
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The Use of Violence in Illegal Markets : Evidence from Mahogany Trade in the Brazilian Amazon
Chimeli, Ariaster - 2011
Agents operating in illegal markets cannot resort to the justice system to guarantee property rights, to enforce contracts, or to seek protection from competitors' improper behaviors. In these contexts, violence is used to enforce previous agreements and to fight for market share. This...
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The Future Economics of Artificial Intelligence : Mythical Agents, a Singleton and the Dark Forest
Naudé, Wim - 2022
in a Dark Forest universe; and (iii) the relevance of economics' Mythical Agent (homo economicus) for the design of value …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014241972
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The Roots of Inequality : Estimating Inequality of Opportunity from Regression Trees and Forests
Brunori, Paolo; Hufe, Paul; Mahler, Daniel Gerszon - 2021
In this paper we propose the use of machine learning methods to estimate inequality of opportunity. We illustrate how our proposed methods—conditional inference regression trees and forests—represent a substantial improvement over existing estimation approaches. First, they reduce the risk...
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On the Relevance and Composition of Gifts within the Firm : Evidence from Field Experiments
Shearer, Bruce S. - 2009
We investigate the economic relevance and the composition of gifts within a firm where output is contractible. We develop a structural econometric model that identifies workers' optimal reaction to monetary gifts received from their employer. We estimate the model using data from two separate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157254
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The Role of Parental Wealth and Income in Financing Children's College Attendance and its Consequences
Hotz, V. Joseph - 2018
This paper examines the influence of parental wealth and income on children's college attendance and parental financing … parents and children. We find that higher levels of parents' wealth and income increase the likelihood that children attend … college with financial support relative to not attending college, and that parental wealth increases the likelihood that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909979
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Top Incomes in Germany, 1871-2014
Bartels, Charlotte - 2018
This study provides new evidence on top income shares in Germany from the period of industrialization to the present. Income concentration was high in the nineteenth century, dropped sharply after World War I and during the hyperinflation years of the 1920s, and increased rapidly throughout the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909983
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What Has Been Happening to UK Income Inequality Since the Mid-1990s? Answers from Reconciled and Combined Household Survey and Tax Return Data
Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2016
Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household survey data (used for official statistics) or tax return data (used in the top incomes literature). We reconcile differences in variable definitions and combine survey and tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999018
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Redistribution of Individual Pension Wealth to Survivor Pensions : Evidence from a Stated Preferences Analysis
de Grip, Andries - 2019
Pension schemes in the Netherlands allow workers to redistribute their own pension wealth to increase the survivor … pension redistribution preferences. We find that, on average, the preferred pension wealth redistribution amounts to 50%. 35 …-looking, more risk averse and more altruistic individuals have a stronger preference to redistribute part of their pension wealth to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012862461