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Does Forced Solidarity Hamper Investment in Small and Micro Enterprises?
Grimm, Michael - 2013
Sharing is a norm in many societies. We present a theoretical model on the trade-off between sharing and investment which we test on data from tailors in Burkina Faso. The empirical results support the idea that there are two behavioural patterns: entrepreneurs following an 'insurance regime'...
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Crowding-Out or Crowding-In? Heterogeneous Effects of Insurance on Solidarity
Landmann, Andreas - 2020
We analyze whether the availability of formal insurance products affects informal solidarity transfers in two … minimizes strategic concerns. The introduction of an insurance treatment alters solidarity in both experiments. We find crowding …
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Did the Intergenerational Solidarity Pact Increase the Employment Rate of Older Workers in Belgium? A Macro-Econometric Evaluation
Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2015
In December 2005, the Belgian government adopted the law on the Intergenerational Solidarity Pact (ISP) aiming at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016379
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Insurance and Solidarity : Evidence from a Lab-in-The-Field Experiment in Cambodia
Lenel, Friederike - 2017
This paper investigates the crowding out of informal support among peers by the introduction of formal insurance. We show that the availability of insurance changes people's intrinsic motivation to support others. We report results from a lab-in-the-field experiment conducted in Cambodia. Half...
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Does Voluntary Risk Taking Affect Solidarity? Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Strobl, Renate - 2017
In this study we experimentally investigate whether solidarity, which is a crucial base for informal insurance … subjects. The reduction of solidarity is driven by a change in giving behaviour of persons with the risky project. Compared to … to show solidarity is influenced by both the desire for own compensation and attributions of responsibility. Our findings …
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Risky Choices and Solidarity : Why Experimental Design Matters
Wunsch, Conny - 2018
Negative income shocks can either be the consequence of risky choices or random events. A growing literature analyzes the role of responsibility for neediness for informal financial support of individuals facing negative income shocks based on randomized experiments. In this paper, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915180
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A Labor Market Approach to the Crisis of Health Care Professionals in Africa
Andalon, Mabel - 2011
This paper adopts a labor market economics perspective to understanding the crisis of health care professionals in Africa. Five challenges resulting from this crisis are identified: a production challenge, an underutilization challenge, a distributional challenge, a performance challenge, and a...
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How Do Principals Assign Students to Teachers? Finding Evidence in Administrative Data and the Implications for Value-Added
Dieterle, Steven - 2013
The federal government's Race to the Top competition has promoted the adoption of test-based performance measures as a component of teacher evaluations throughout many states, but the validity of these measures has been controversial among researchers and widely contested by teachers' unions. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088655
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Experimental Labor Markets and Policy Considerations : Incomplete Contracts and Macroeconomic Aspects
Casoria, Fortuna - 2013
This survey focuses on experimental labor markets investigating two aspects that deem us important for a better understanding of labor market relations and the consequences for labor market policies. The first part of the survey is dedicated to papers that assess the prevalence of reciprocal...
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What Do Labor Market Institutions Do?
Holmlund, Bertil - 2013
The past couple of decades have seen a huge increase in research on various labor market institutions. This paper offers a brief overview and discussion of research on the labor market impacts of minimum wages (MW), unemployment insurance (UI), and employment protection legislation (EPL). It is...
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