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Ingratiation and Favoritism : Experimental Evidence

Robin, Stéphane - 2012

We provide experimental evidence of workers' ingratiation by opinion conformity and of managers' discrimination in favor of workers with whom they share similar opinions. In our Baseline, managers can observe both workers' performance at a task and opinions before assigning unequal payoffs. In...

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The Role of Beliefs in Long Sickness Absence : Experimental Evidence from a Psychological Intervention

Rotger, Gabriel - 2020

This paper makes use of the randomized allocation of workers on sick leave in Denmark into self-management support, to examine the role of beliefs about control for prolonged absenteeism due to illness. Our results demonstrate that the ability of the intervention to lead sick-listed workers...

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Physician Payment Mechanisms, Hospital Length of Stay and Risk of Readmission : Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Echevin, Damien - 2014

introduced an optional mixed compensation (MC) scheme for specialist physicians working in hospital. This scheme combines a fixed …

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Physicians' Multitasking and Incentives : Empirical Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Dumont, Etienne; Fortin, Bernard; Jacquemet, Nicolas; … - 2021

We analyse how physicians respond to contractual changes and incentives within a multitasking environment. In 1999 the … on Quebec physicians to evaluate the impact of this change in incentives on their practice choices. We highlight the … clinical services and average time per clinical service. Our results show that, on average, the reform induced physicians who …

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Regulation, Trust, and Cronyism in Middle Eastern Societies : The Simple Economics of 'Wasta'

Barnett, Andy - 2013

Despite being a fixture of everyday life in the Arab world, wasta, which may be thought of as special influence by members of the same group or tribe, has received little attention from social scientists. Our casual empiricism suggests that wasta is an important determinant of how economic...

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Public-Private Entanglement : Entrepreneurship in a Hybrid Political Order, the Case of Lebanon

Stel, Nora - 2013

The instability and informality that characterize hybrid political orders and its effects on entrepreneurs remains largely unexplored in the scholarly literatures. In this paper we provide initial findings from the case of entrepreneurs' access to electricity in Lebanon. Using quantitative and...

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Jumping the Queue : Nepotism and Public-Sector Pay

Chassamboulli, Andri - 2020

We set up a model with search and matching frictions to understand the effects of employment and wage policies, as well as nepotism in hiring in the public sector, on unemployment and rent seeking. Conditional on inefficiently high public-sector wages, more nepotism in public-sector hiring...

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Political Connections and Firms : Network Dimensions

Bussolo, Maurizio - 2018

Business and politician interaction is pervasive but has mostly been analysed with a binary approach. Yet the network dimensions of such connections are ubiquitous. We use a unique dataset for seven economies that documents politically exposed persons (PEPs) and their links to companies,...

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Does Wealth Inequality Matter for Growth? The Effect of Billionaire Wealth, Income Distribution, and Poverty

Bagchi, Sutirtha - 2014

A fundamental question in social sciences relates to the effect of wealth inequality on economic growth. Yet, in tackling the question, researchers have had to use income as a proxy for wealth. We derive a global measure of wealth inequality from Forbes magazine's listing of billionaires and...

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Social Connections and Incentives in the Workplace : Evidence from Personnel Data

Bandiera, Oriana - 2011

combine panel data on individual worker's productivity from personnel records with a natural field experiment in which we …

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