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Entrepreneurial Decisions and Liquidity Constraints

Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - 1993

empirical strategy is to determine whether an individual's wealth affects the probability of becoming an entrepreneur, and the …

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Skill vs. Luck in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital : Evidence from Serial Entrepreneurs

Gompers, Paul - 2006

This paper argues that a large component of success in entrepreneurship and venture capital can be attributed to skill … further support for the role of skill in both entrepreneurship and venture capital …

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The Psychosocial Value of Employment

Hussam, Reshmaan N.; Kelley, Erin M.; Lane, Gregory V.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

In settings where an individual's labor choices are constrained, the inability to work may generate psychosocial harm. This paper presents a causal estimate of the psychosocial value of employment in the Rohingya refugee camps of Bangladesh. We engage 745 individuals in a field experiment with...

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Employee Screening : Theory and Evidence

Huang, Fali - 2006

Arguably the fundamental problem faced by employers is how to elicit effort from employees. Most models suggest that employers meet this challenge by monitoring employees carefully to prevent shirking. But there is another option that relies on heterogeneity across employees, and that is to...

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Monitoring Works : Getting Teachers to Come to School

Duflo, Esther - 2005

In the rural areas of developing countries, teacher absence is a widespread problem. This paper tests whether a simple incentive program based on teacher presence can reduce teacher absence, and whether it has the potential to lead to more teaching activities and better learning. In 60 informal...

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The Changing (Dis-)Utility of Work

Kaplan, Greg - 2018

We study how changes in the distribution of occupations have affected the aggregate non-pecuniary costs and benefits of working. The physical toll of work is smaller now than in 1950, with workers shifting away from occupations in which people report experiencing tiredness and pain. The...

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When Corporate Social Responsibility Backfires : Theory and Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

List, John A. - 2017

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become a cornerstone of modern business practice, developing from a "why" in the 1960s to a "must" today. Early empirical evidence on both the demand and supply sides has largely confirmed CSR's efficacy. This paper combines theory with a large-scale...

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The Morale Effects of Pay Inequality

Breza, Emily - 2016

The idea that worker utility is affected by co-worker wages has potentially broad labor market implications. In a month-long experiment with Indian manufacturing workers, we randomize whether co-workers within production units receive the same flat daily wage or different wages (according to...

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Not Working at Work : Loafing, Unemployment and Labor Productivity

Burda, Michael - 2016

We use the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) 2003-12 to estimate time spent by workers in non-work while on the job. Non-work time is substantial and varies positively with the local unemployment rate. While average time spent by workers in non-work conditional on any positive amount rises with...

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The Wealth of the Unemployed : Adequacy and Implications for Unemployment Insurance

Gruber, Jonathan - 1999

spells. In this paper I focus on focus on one form of resources, own wealth holdings. I find that the median worker has … tremendous heterogeneity in wealth holdings; almost one-third of workers can't even replace 10% of their income loss. Most … strikingly, ex-ante wealth holdings decline precipitously with realized unemployment durations, both absolutely and (especially …

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