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Incentives and the Sorting of Altruistic Agents into Street-Level Bureaucracies
Buurman, Margaretha; Dur, Robert - 2021
-selection and allocation decisions of agents who differ in altruism towards clients. When bureaucrats are paid flat wages, they do … of the altruism distribution. We also show how client composition affects sorting and why street-level bureaucrats often …
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Market Design for Altruistic Supply : Evidence from the Lab
Slonim, Robert - 2016
Volunteer supply is widespread, yet without a price inefficiencies occur due to suppliers' inability to coordinate with each other and with demand. For these contexts, we propose a market clearinghouse mechanism that improves efficiency if supply is altruistically provided. The mechanism, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001311
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Why Volunteer? Evidence on the Role of Altruism, Reputation, and Incentives
Myers, Caitlin Knowles - 2013
altruism, reputational concerns, and material incentives. We present an analysis of a unique data set that combines an … experimental measure of altruism, surveyed measures of other factors including reputational concerns, and call records from … explanations, we find that altruism and reputational concerns are positively associated with the decision to volunteer. Moreover …
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Group Membership, Competition, and Altruistic Versus Antisocial Punishment : Evidence from Randomly Assigned Army Groups
Goette, Lorenz - 2010
We investigate how group boundaries, and the economic environment surrounding groups, affect altruistic cooperation and punishment behavior. Our study uses experiments conducted with 525 officers in the Swiss Army, and exploits random assignment to platoons. We find that, without competition...
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Mums and their Sons, Dads and their Daughters : Panel Data Evidence of Interdependent Marginal Utilities across 14 EU Countries
Molina, Jose Alberto; Navarro, Maria; Walker, Ian - 2021
main results show evidence of strong altruism effects, but these estimated effects differ across countries, differ between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317129
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Labour Force Participation of the Elderly in Europe : The Importance of Being Healthy
Kalwij, Adriaan - 2006
In this paper we study labour force participation behaviour of individuals aged 50-64 in 11 European countries. The data are drawn from the new Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The empirical analysis shows that health is multi-dimensional, in the sense that different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783388
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Ageing, Health and Life Satisfaction of the Oldest Old : An Analysis for Germany
Gwozdz, Wencke - 2009
This analysis uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to assess the effect of ageing and health on the life satisfaction of the oldest old (defined as 75 and older). We observe a U-shaped relationship between age...
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Effect of Immigration on Depression Among Older Natives in Western Europe
Escarce, Jose - 2019
To our knowledge, no study has examined the effect of immigration on the health of older natives. We use the Study of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to investigate whether immigration affects depression among natives 65-80 years old. Immigration may increase the supply and lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857705
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Health Risk Factors Among the Older European Populations : Personal and Country Effects
García-Muñoz, Teresa - 2014
It is now common to use the individual's self-assessed-health-status (SAHS) as a measure of health. The use of SAHS is supported by numerous studies that show that SAHS is a better predictor of mortality and morbidity than medical records. The 2011 wave of the rich Survey of Health Aging and...
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Job Insecurity and Health : Evidence from Older European Workers
Suari-Andreu, Eduard; Schwartz, Tim; Lent, Max; Knoef, … - 2022
A rich literature has studied the effect of job insecurity on health. However the causal link between these two variables remains unclear. We study the relationship between perceived job insecurity and health using longitudinal data on around 30 thousand older workers from 20 European countries...
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