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The effect of information on social preferences towards an outgroup of refugees: A field experiment
Bajrami, Leon; Loschelder, David D.; Mechtel, Mario - 2017
-wing parties is even negative. Our experiment allows to derive policy implications on how attitudes towards refugees could be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011712738
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The structure and behavioral effects of revealed social identity preferences
Hett, Florian; Kröll, Markus; Mechtel, Mario - 2019
variation of these behavioral effects is still limited. We use a novel laboratory experiment to measure differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012143317
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The Challenges of Integrating Ukrainian Economic Migrants and Refugees in Poland
Kubiciel-Lodzińska, Sabina; Solga, Brygida - In: Intereconomics 58 (2023) 6, pp. 326-332
refugees, is undertaken by individual Polish cities and regions.One of them is the Opolskie Voivodeship, a region with a high …
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Integrating refugees in the Rhine-Neckar-Region: Initial evidence from an inclusive soccer project
Berg, Gerard van den; Kolb, Michael; Lange, Martin; … - 2016
refugees who participate in a small inclusive soccer project or are part of a control group. Our main findings with respect to …. Thus, it seems that the responding refugees are equipped with a good health, reasonable work experience and motivation, and … project. Most of them indicated that they would like to participate more frequently. Responding refugees, who participate in …
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Social identity and inequality: The impact of China's hukou system
Afridi, Farzana; Li, Sherry Xin; Ren, Yufei - 2012
We conduct an experimental study to investigate the causal impact of social identity on individuals' response to economic incentives. We focus on China's household registration (hukou) system which favors urban residents and discriminates against rural residents in resource allocation. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286869
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Incentives and group identity
Masella, Paolo; Meier, Stephan; Zahn, Philipp - 2012
This paper investigates in a principal-agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have hidden costs, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all interactions control mechanisms can have hidden costs for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283958
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Disentangling the sources of pro-social behavior in the workplace : a field experiment
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2009
This paper presents evidence from a field experiment, which aims to identify the two sources of worker's pro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265981
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Performance pay and the erosion of worker cooperation: field experimental evidence
Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Goette, Lorenz - 2006
We report the results of a field experiment with bicycle messengers in Switzerland and the United States. Messenger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267460
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Seasonal social preferences
Ekström, Mathias - 2017
Christmas is when people are expected to act selflessly for the well-being of others, but are people actually more altruistic at this time of the year? Responding to this question poses a challenge because of the confounding factors of charitable tax breaks, reciprocity motives, direct social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917035
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The Economic Experiences of Refugees in Canada
DeVoretz, Don J.; Pivnenko, Sergiy; Beiser, Morton - 2004
Canada admits refugees on the basis of compassion and not economic criteria. It is however, important to document the … are that employed Canadian refugees earn an amount equal to that earned by their family class reference group circa 1980 …-2001. However, the incidence of social assistance attachment for refugees is substantial and for those refugees who receive any …
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