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Work Absence in Europe
Bonato, Leo; Lusinyan, Lusine - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
Work absence is an important part of the individual decision on actual working hours. This paper focuses on sickness absence in Europe and develops a stylized model where absence is part of the labor-leisure decision made by workers and the production decision made by profit-maximizing firms,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826222
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Do Legal Standards Affect Ethical Concerns of Consumers?
Engelmann, Dirk; Kübler, Dorothea - Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, … - 2008
In order to address the impact of regulation on ethical concerns of consumers, we study the effect of a minimum wage. In our experimental market, consumers have monopsony power, firms engage in Bertrand competition, and workers are passive recipients of a wage payment. Two treatments are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005652731
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Monitoring, Sanctions and Front-Loading of Job Search in a Non-Stationary Model
Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel; Launov, Andrey; Van der … - Volkswirtschaftslehre-Lehrstühle, Gutenberg School of … - 2011
sanctions insured unemployed whose effort is deemed insufficient. The model reveals that such schemes provide incentives to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009386039
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Monitoring, Sanctions and Front-Loading of Job Search in a Non-Stationary Model
Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel; Launov, Andrey; Van der … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
sanctions insured unemployed whose effort is deemed insufficient. The model reveals that such schemes provide incentives to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009386635
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Monitoring, Sanctions and Front-Loading of Job Search in a Non-Stationary Model
COCKX, B.; DEJEMEPPE, M.; LAUNOV, A.; LINDEN, B. VAN DER - Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Gent - 2011
sanctions insured unemployed whose effort is deemed insuffcient. The model reveals that such schemes provide incentives to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009392929
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Monitoring, Sanctions and Front-Loading of Job Search in a Non-Stationary Model
COCKX, Bart; DEJEMEPPE, Muriel; LAUNOV, Andrey; LINDEN, … - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2011
sanctions insured unemployed whose effort is deemed insufficient. The model reveals that such schemes provide incentives to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009493511
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Strategic Sovereign Defaults under International Sanctions
Scheresberg, Carlo de Bassa; Passarelli, Francesco - ISLA, Centre for research on Latin American Studies and … - 2011
Sanctions induce political instability. We present a model where sanctioned regimes may decide to repudiate their … sovereign defaults reduce sanctions' destabilizing impact. When the scope for internal financial transfers is particularly … evidence of sizeable anticipation effects which contradict the enforcement theory: high chances of receiving sanctions in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009645216
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Monetary and non Monetary Punishment in the Voluntary Contributions Mechanism
Masclet, David; Noussair, Charles; Tucker, Steven; … - HAL - 2003
group's overall welfare (James S. Coleman, 1990). Norms require enforcement with a system of sanctions that penalize … deviations from acceptable behavior (George C. Homans, 1961). Formal sanctions include fines or restrictions implemented by a … legal system or private individuals that impose costs of money and time on the offender. However, informal sanctions such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647584
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How Global Rules are established and stabilized
Siebert, Horst - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007
, sanctions, side payments, self-enforcing contracts, waivers and regional integrations within a multilateral order. In addition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755258
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Institution Formation in Public Goods Games
Kosfeld, Michael; Okada, Akira; Riedl, Arno - Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University - 2006
Centralized sanctioning institutions are of utmost importance for overcoming free-riding tendencies and enforcing outcomes that maximize group welfare in social dilemma situations. However, little is known about how such institutions come into existence. In this paper we investigate, both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004992488