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A Different Look at Lenin's Legacy : Trust, Risk, Fairness and Cooperativeness in the Two Germanies
Heineck, Guido - 2010
question, we use the reunification of Germany as a natural experiment and study the post-reunification trajectory of …. In comparison to West Germans, they are also less inclined to see others as fair or helpful. Implied trajectories can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137530
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Efficient and Inefficient Welfare States
Algan, Yann - 2011
This paper shows that cross country differences in the generosity and the quality of the welfare state are associated with differences in the trustworthiness of their citizens. We show that generous, transparent and efficient welfare states in Scandinavian countries are based on the civicness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131158
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Trust the Police? Self-Selection of Motivated Agents into the German Police Force
Friebel, Guido - 2016
We conduct experimental games with police applicants in Germany to investigate whether intrinsically motivated agents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977332
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Employee Recognition and Performance : A Field Experiment
Bradler, Christiane - 2014
This paper reports the results from a controlled field experiment designed to investigate the causal effect of unannounced, public recognition on employee performance. We hired more than 300 employees to work on a three-hour data-entry task. In a random sample of work groups, workers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050629
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Does Democracy Foster Trust?
Rainer, Helmut - 2006
trusting attitude than West Germans. This suggests a negative effect of communism in East Germany versus democracy in West … Germany on social and institutional trust. However, the experience of democracy by East Germans since reunification did not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779963
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A Nation-Wide Laboratory : Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioral Experiments into Representative Surveys
Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; von Rosenbladt, Bernhard; … - 2023
with the analysis of trust and trustworthiness in Germany by combiningrepresentative survey data with representative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014255643
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Trust, Positive Reciprocity, and Negative Reciprocity : Do These Traits Impact Entrepreneurial Dynamics?
Caliendo, Marco - 2010
Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in both positively and negatively reciprocal ways. So far it is rarely analyzed whether these variables of social cognition influence everyday decision making behavior. We focus on entrepreneurs who are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134986
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Foreign Competition and Executive Compensation in the Manufacturing Industry : A Comparison between Germany and the U.S
Dyballa, Katharina - 2018
impact of foreign competition on managerial compensation, (2) differences in the impact between Germany and the U.S. and (3 … covering the period from 1984-2010 for Germany respectively 1992-2011 for the U.S. and apply system GMM in order to solve … Germany. A differentiation between imported intermediates (efficient sourcing strategy) and final inputs (competition) reveals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912768
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Wage Equalization and Regional Misallocation : Evidence from Italian and German Provinces
Boeri, Tito - 2019
reduce inequality. We study the local and aggregate effects of collective bargaining in Italy and Germany. The two countries … West more productive than the East in Germany – but have adopted different models of wage bargaining. Italy sets wages … based on nationwide contracts that allow for limited local wage adjustments, while Germany has moved toward a more flexible …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870203
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How Information Affects Support for Education Spending : Evidence from Survey Experiments in Germany and the United States
West, Martin R. - 2016
preferences, we implement parallel survey experiments in Germany and the United States. In both countries, support for increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978960