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On the Notion of Responsibility in Organizations

Sliwka, Dirk - 2004

We derive a natural definition of responsibility in a formal model where employees care for their career prospects: A … are equilibria where either a single agent or no agent is responsible for a task but joint responsibility never arises …

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Shall we kill or enslave Caesar? Analyzing the Caesar model

Jasso, Guillermina - 2008

paper presents a model of killing versus enslaving Caesar, based on a new theory which unifies justice, status, and power … of societies - justice-nonmaterialistic, status, and power-nonmaterialistic. Results cover members' gains, effects of own … killed only in a justice-nonmaterialistic society, and from the noblest of motives - to achieve equal gains for members. …

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Decision-making by children

Lundberg, Shelly; Romich, Jennifer; Tsang, Kwok P. - 2007

In this paper, we examine the determinants of decision-making power by children and young adolescents. Moving beyond previous economic models that treat children as goods consumed by adults rather than agents, we develop a noncooperative model of parental control of child behavior and child...

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Gift exchange in the workplace: money or attention?

Dur, Robert - 2008

We develop a model of manager-employee relationships where employees care more for their manager when they are more convinced that their manager cares for them. Managers can signal their altruistic feelings towards their employees in two ways: by offering a generous wage and by giving attention....

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Reciprocity and incentive pay in the workplace

Dur, Robert; Non, Arjan; Roelfsema, Hein - 2010

We study optimal incentive contracts for workers who are reciprocal to management attention. When neither worker's effort nor manager's attention can be contracted, a double moral-hazard problem arises, implying that reciprocal workers should be given weak financial incentives. In a...

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Individual responsibility and the funding of collective goods

Lévy-Garboua, Louis; Montmarquette, Claude; Villeval, … - 2007

When a deficit occurs in the funding of collective goods, it is usually covered by raising the amount of taxes or by rationing the supply of the goods. This article compares the efficiency of these institutions. We report the results of a 2x2 experiment based on a game in the first stage of...

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Equality of Opportunity for Well-Being

Mahler, Daniel Gerszon; Ramos, Xavier - 2017

A growing literature has tried to measure the extent to which individuals have equal opportunities to acquire income. At the same time, policy makers have doubled down on efforts to go beyond income when measuring well-being. We attempt to bridge these two areas by measuring the extent to which...

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Is Inequality of Opportunity Robust to the Measurement Approach?

Ramos, Xavier; Van de gaer, Dirk - 2017

Recent literature has suggested many ways of measuring equality of opportunity. We analyze in a systematic manner the various approaches put forth in the literature to show whether and to what extent different choices matter empirically. We use EU-SILC data for most European countries for 2005...

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Organizations, Diffused Pivotality and Immoral Outcomes

Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - 2013

This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...

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Empirical approaches to inequality of opportunity: Principles, measures, and evidence

Ramos, Xavi; Van de Gaer, Dirk - 2012

We put together the different conceptual issues involved in measuring inequality of opportunity, discuss how these concepts have been translated into computable measures, and point out the problems and choices researchers face when implementing these measures. Our analysis identifies and...

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