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When it's (mostly) the taking part that counts: the post-application consequences of employment tribunal claims

Drinkwater, Stephen; Latreille, Paul L.; Knight, K.G. Ben - 2008

This paper uses the 2003 Survey of Employment Tribunal Applications to examine the post-application employment consequences for individuals registering complaints to Employment Tribunals following dismissal or redundancy. In examining this issue, we consider a number of pieces of evidence: (i)...

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Generational accounting, solidarity and pension losses

Teulings, Coen N.; de Vries, Casper G. - 2003

The creeping stock market collapse eroded the wealth of funded pension systems. This led to political tensions between generations due to the fuzzy definition of property rights on the pension funds wealth. We argue that this problem can best be resolved by the introduction of generational...

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Insurance versus savings for the poor: Why one should offer either both or none

Landmann, Andreas; Vollan, Björn; Frölich, Markus - 2012

and a secret saving device on solidarity in risk-sharing groups among rural villagers in the Philippines. Risk is … simulated by a lottery. Risk-sharing is possible in solidarity groups of three and insurance is introduced via less risky … also test for the persistence of this crowding-out of solidarity. We find evidence for a reduction of solidarity by …

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Risky Choices and Solidarity: Why Experimental Design Matters

Wunsch, Conny; Strobl, Renate - 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...

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Crowding-Out or Crowding-In? Heterogeneous Effects of Insurance on Solidarity

Landmann, Andreas; Vollan, Björn; Henning, Karla; … - 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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Does Voluntary Risk Taking Affect Solidarity? Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Strobl, Renate; Wunsch, Conny - 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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Social distance and trust: Experimental evidence from a slum in Cairo

Binzel, Christine; Fehr, Dietmar - 2013

While strong social ties help individuals cope with missing institutions, trade is essentially limited to those who are part of the social network. We examine what makes the decision to trust a stranger different from the decision to trust a member of a given social network (a friend), by...

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Social Distance and Trust: Experimental Evidence from a Slum in Cairo

Binzel, Christine; Fehr, Dietmar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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Are Nascent Entrepreneurs Jacks-of-All-Trades? A Test of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship with German Data

Wagner, Joachim - 2003

In a recent paper Edward Lazear proposed the jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship. Based on a coherent model of the choice between self-employment and paid employment he shows that having a background in a large number of different roles increases the probability of becoming an...

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Norm-Based Trade Union Membership: Evidence for Germany

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2003

for social custom effects in the determination of union membership. Using panel data for Germany, we find evidence for …

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