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We utilize a large-scale randomized social experiment to identify how coworkers affect each other's effort as measured … by work absence. The experiment altered the work absence incentives for half of all employees living in Göteborg, Sweden …
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This study investigates possible reasons for the gender difference in sickness absence. We estimate both short- and long-term effects of parenthood in a within-couple analysis based on the timing of parenthood. We find that after entering parenthood, women increase their sickness absence by...
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In many countries, sickness absence financed by generous insurance benefits has become an important concern in the policy debate. It turns out that there are strong variations in absence behavior between local geographical areas, and it has been difficult to explain these variations by...
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When working together, people engage in non-contractual and informal interactions that constitute the sociology of the group. We use behavioral models and a unique survey of medical groups to analyze how group sociology influences physician incentive pay and behavior. We conclude that informal...
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physicians have lower participation rates than male physicians plus they are subject to higher occupational mismatch, and (ii …) moonlighting is more frequent among male physicians. In this paper we investigate whether such differences are related to the … university graduates, Spanish physicians are the ones most often coupled to partners with the same educational level and/or same …
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We provide experimental evidence of workers' by opinion conformity and of managers' discrimination in favor of workers with whom they share similar opinions. In our Baseline, managers can observe both workers' performance at a task and opinions before assigning unequal payoffs. In the...
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-scale experiment was setup where in 2 of the 26 Dutch regions case workers of the disability insurance administration were instructed …
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Governments in new democracies launch social policies with the purported goal of alleviating the effects of poverty among the most vulnerable households, usually low income families with children. However, this goal is can be thwarted by the clientelistic distribution of social policies'...
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salary. To formulate how limited-term private ownership of bengkok land promotes clientelism, we model a timely delegation of …
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We argue that anti-corruption laws may provide an efficiency rationale for why political parties should meddle in the distribution of political nominations and government contracts. Anti-corruption laws forbid trade in spoils that politicians distribute. However, citizens may pay for gaining...
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