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There is no robust empirical support for the effect of financial incentives on the decision to work in self-employment rather than as a wage earner. In the literature, this is seen as a puzzle. We offer a focus on the opportunity cost, i.e. the wages given up as an employee. Information on...
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This paper analyses the impact of risk attitudes on the decision to become self-employed among individuals who grew up … correlation between risk preferences and self-employment after transition is unlikely to be driven by parents transmitting self …-employment experience and risk preferences to their children. Robustness checks on a sample of East Germans confirm that such a third factor …
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.We investigate the reliability of "single-question" data using the ONS Omnibus and BritishSocial Attitudes (BSA) surveys as examples... …
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Few representative surveys of households of migrants exist, limiting our ability to study theeffects of international …
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We model decisions with respect to formality or informality for entrepreneurs in a newindustry for a developing economy. We show that informality allows a leader to explore,without significant sunk costs, the potential profitability of the industry; that is, informality maybe a stepping stone,...
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In many environments, tournaments can elicit more effort from workers, except perhapswhen workers can sabotage each other. Because it is hard to separate effort, ability andoutput in many real workplace settings, the empirical evidence on the incentive effect oftournaments is thin...
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Small and informal firms account for a large share of employment in developing countries.The rapid expansion of microfinance services is based on the belief that these firms haveproductive investment opportunities and can enjoy high returns to capital if given theopportunity...
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Within a laboratory experiment we investigate a principal-agent game in which agents may,first, self-select into a group task (GT) or an individual task (IT) and, second, choose workeffort. In their choices of task and effort the agents have to consider pay contracts for bothtasks as offered by...
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We present results from a field experiment testing the gift-exchange hypothesis inside a treeplantingfirm paying its workforce incentive contracts. Firm managers told a crew of treeplanters they would receive a pay raise for one day as a result of a surplus not attributable topast planting...
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juniors (under 30) and seniors (over 50) in both experiments conducted onsite with theemployees of two large firms and in a …
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