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Oppositional identities and employment for ethnic minorities: evidence from England
Battu, Harminder; Zenou, Yves - 2009
Where a community or group is socially excluded from a dominant group, some individuals of that group may identify with … that the social environment of individuals and attachments to culture of origin has a strong association with identity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269535
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An economic analysis of identity and career choice
Knoth Humlum, Maria; Kleinjans, Kristin J.; Skyt … - 2007
choices of these individuals. Based on Akerlof and Kranton (2000), we consider a model of career choice and identity where … individuals derive non-pecuniary identity payoffs. Using factor analysis on a range of attitude questions, we find two factors … related to identity (career orientation and social orientation), which are important for educational choices. The implication …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268181
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Social interactions and the salience of social identity
McLeish, Kendra N.; Oxoby, Robert J. - 2008
In this paper, we explore the effect of identity salience on behavior in a simple social interaction. Specifically, we … compare behavior in a ultimatum game across three treatments: priming subjects with a shared identity, priming subjects with … an identity distinct from those with whom they will interact, and priming subjects with no particular identity. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268832
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Wage effects of recruitment methods: the case of the Italian social service sector
Mosca, Michele; Pastore, Francesco - 2008
This paper uses a unique data set containing detailed micro-information on organisations, managers, workers and volunteers belonging to public, private forprofit and private nonprofit institutions delivering social services in Italy. The analysis aims to estimate the determinants of wages across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268718
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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.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280682
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Job Matching, Social Network and Word-of-Mouth Communication
Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Zenou, Yves - 2003
Workers are embedded within a network of social relationships and can communicate through word-of-mouth. They can find a job either directly or through personal contacts. From this micro scenario, we derive an aggregate matching function that has the standard properties but fails to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262763
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Performance spillovers and social network in the workplace: evidence from rural and urban weavers in a Chinese textile firm
Kato, Takao; Shu, Pian - 2008
We provide some of the first rigorous evidence on performance spillovers and social network in the workplace. The data we use are rather extraordinary - weekly data for rejection rates (proportion of defective output) for all weavers in a firm during a 12 months (April 2003-March 2004) period,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268660
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Labor mobility, social network effects, and innovative activity
Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans Christian; Rønde, Thomas - 2011
We study the mapping between labor mobility and industrial innovative activity for the population of R&D active Danish firms observed between 1999 and 2004. Our study documents a positive relationship between the number of workers who join a firm and the firm's innovative activity. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278617
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Should egalitarians expropriate philanthropists?
Dasgupta, Indraneel; Kanbur, Ravi - 2008
Wealthy individuals often voluntarily provide public goods that the poor also consume. Such philanthropy is perceived as legitimizing one's wealth. Governments routinely exempt the rich from taxation on grounds of their charitable expenditure. We examine the normative logic of this exemption. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268906
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Should Egalitarians Expropriate Philanthropists?
Dasgupta, Indraneel; Kanbur, Ravi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Wealthy individuals often voluntarily provide public goods that the poor also consume. Such philanthropy is perceived as legitimizing one’s wealth. Governments routinely exempt the rich from taxation on grounds of their charitable expenditure. We examine the normative logic of this exemption....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703043