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Discrimination and In-Group Favoritism in a Citywide Trust Experiment

Falk, Armin; Zehnder, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper provides field experimental evidence on the prevalence and determinants of discrimination and in-group favoritism in trust decisions. We observe choices of about 1,000 inhabitants of the city of Zurich who take part in a sequential trust game, in which first movers can condition their...

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Fair and efficient taxation under partial control: Theory and evidence

Ooghe, Erwin; Peichl, Andreas - 2010

There is clear evidence that fairness plays a role in redistribution. Individuals want to compensate others for their misfortune, while they allow them to enjoy the fruits of their effort. Such fairness considerations have been introduced in political economy and optimal income tax models with a...

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Fair and Efficient Taxation under Partial Control: Theory and Evidence

Ooghe, Erwin; Peichl, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

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Do They Find You on Facebook? Facebook Profile Picture and Hiring Chances

Baert, Stijn - 2015

We investigate whether the publicly available information on Facebook about job applicants affects employers' hiring … Belgium. The only characteristic in which these candidates differ is the unique Facebook profile that can be found online with … their name. Candidates with the most beneficial Facebook picture obtain approximately 39% more job interview invitations …

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Can Patience Account For Subnational Differences in Student Achievement? Regional Analysis with Facebook Interests

Hanushek, Eric A.; Kinne, Lavinia; Sancassani, Pietro; … - 2023

within-country disparities. We use social-media data - Facebook interests - to construct novel regional measures of patience …

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Civility and Trust in Social Media

Antoci, Angelo; Bonelli, Laura; Paglieri, Fabio; … - 2018

the environment of social networking sites hostile to many users. We conduct a novel experiment in a Facebook setting to … that participants exposed to civil Facebook interaction are significantly more trusting. In contrast, when the use of … Facebook is accompanied by the experience of online incivility, no significant changes occur in users' behavior. These results …

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Labor Mobility, Trade and Social Capital

Schiff, Maurice - 2004

Labor market integration raises welfare in the absence of distortions. This paper examines labor and goods market integration in a general equilibrium model with social capital. The findings are: i) labor market integration has an ambiguous impact on welfare, and raises it if the goods produced...

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Migration and Diversity : Human versus Social Capital

Manole, Vlad; Schiff, Maurice - 2004

This paper examines the welfare implications associated with different degrees of diversity or similarity between migrants and natives under both migration and trade. We use a general equilibrium model of migration, human capital and social capital and find that there are three equilibrium...

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People People : Social Capital and the Labor-Market Outcomes of Underrepresented Groups

Borghans, Lex; ter Weel, Bas; Weinberg, Bruce A. - 2005

Despite indications that interpersonal interactions are important for understanding individual labor-market outcomes and have become more important over the last decades, there is little analysis by economists. This paper shows that interpersonal interactions are important determinants of...

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Social Capital and the Uncertainty Reduction of Self-Employment

Blumberg, Boris F.; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2001

We study the self-employed decision and its relation to human and social capital. Human capital is necessary to acquire skills. Social capital dampens the effects of uncertainty about future income. Our data set consists of 1339 respondents from the same age group, who were interviewed three...

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