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social norms. We describe a model, incorporating institutional features of the German labour market, which explicitly allows … according effects which restrict freeriding. The impact of social norms tends to increase with net union density. Hence …
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We consider guilt averse agents and principals and study the effects of guilt on optimal behavior of the principal and the agent in a moral hazard model. The principal's contract proposal contains a target effort in addition to the monetary incentive scheme. By accepting the agreement, the...
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This paper reports an experiment examining the effect of social norms on pro-social behavior. We test two predictions … derived from work in psychology regarding the influence of norms. The first is a focusing influence, whereby norms only impact … demonstrates a direct effect of norms on behavior. …
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We exploit time use data from Denmark and the United States to examine the impact institutions and social norms have on … social norms in Denmark will mitigate the impact standard economic power measures have upon couples' time use. Further we …
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We explore the influence of social norms on behavior. To do so, we introduce a method for identifying norms, based on … the property that social norms reflect social consensus regarding the appropriateness of different possible behaviors. We … demonstrate that the norms we elicit, along with a simple model combining concern for norm-compliance with utility for money …
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This article experimentally examines voluntary contributions when group members' marginal returns to the public good vary. The experiment implements two marginal return types, low and high, and uses the information that members have about the heterogeneity to identify the applied contribution...
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performance. When economic integration is low and local connectivity is high, informal norms control entrepreneurial behavior and …
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explain these by looking at the effects of international norms that define good global governance as orderly and harmonised … global governance. We conceptualize such norms as "metagovernance norms" that are enacted in reflexive practices which govern …
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