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Campos, Nauro F.; Giovannoni, Francesco - 2008

Although the theoretical literature often uses lobbying and corruption synonymously, the empirical literature … associates lobbying with the preferred mean for exerting influence in developed countries and corruption with the preferred one … between bribing and lobbying. We test our predictions using survey data for about 6000 firms in 26 countries. Our results …

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Redistributive politics and market efficiency: an experimental study

Großer, Jens; Reuben, Ernesto - 2009

We study the interaction between competitive markets that produce large but unequally distributed welfare gains and elections through which the poor majority can redistribute income away from the rich minority. In our simple laboratory democracy, subjects first earn their income by trading in a...

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Foreign Direct Investment, Labour Market Regulation and Self-Interested Governments

Palokangas, Tapio - 2003

This document examines foreign direct investment (FDI) when multinationals and labour unions bargain over labour contracts and lobby the self-interested government for taxation and labour market regulation. We demonstrate that right-to-manage bargaining predicts higher returns for FDI than does...

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A model of overconfidence

Weinberg, Bruce A. - 2009

People use information about their ability to choose tasks. If more challenging tasks provide more accurate information about ability, people who care about and who are risk averse over their perception of their own ability will choose tasks that are not sufficiently challenging. Overestimation...

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Extrinsic rewards and intrinsic motives: Standard and behavioral approaches to agency and labor markets

Rebitzer, James B.; Taylor, Lowell J. - 2010

Employers structure pay and employment relationships to mitigate agency problems. A large literature in economics documents how the resolution of these problems shapes personnel policies and labor markets. For the most part, the study of agency in employment relationships relies on highly...

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Are income and consumption taxes ever really equivalent? evidence from a real-effort experiment with real goods

Blumkin, Tomer; Ruffle, Bradley J.; Ganun, Yosef - 2010

The public finance literature demonstrates the equivalence between consumption and laborincome (wage) taxes. We introduce an experimental paradigm in which individuals make real labor-leisure choices and spend their earned income on real goods. We use this paradigm to test whether a labor-income...

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Integrating personality psychology into economics

Heckman, James J. - 2011

This paper reviews the problems and potential benefits of integrating personality psychology into economics. Economists have much to learn from and contribute to personality psychology.

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Certainty and severity of sanctions in classical and behavioral models of deterrence: A survey

Entorf, Horst - 2012

This survey summarizes the classical fundamentals of modern deterrence theory, covers major theoretical and empirical findings on the impact of certainty and severity of punishment (and the interplay thereof) as well as underlying methodological problems, gives an overview of limitations and...

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Technological Change, Organizational Change, and Job Turnover

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan - 2002

This paper uses a German employer-employee matched panel data set to investigate the effect of organizational and technological changes on gross job and worker flows. The empirical results indicate that organizational change is skill-biased because it reduces predominantly net employment growth...

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Age biased technical and organisational change, training and employment prospects of older workers

Behaghel, Luc; Caroli, Eve; Roger, Muriel - 2011

We analyse the role of training in mitigating the negative impact of technical and organizational changes on the employment prospects of older workers. Using a panel of French firms in the late 1990s, we first estimate wage bill share equations for different age groups. Consistently with what is...

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