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Social comparison and performance : Experimental evidence on the fair wage-effort hypothesis
We investigate the impact of wage comparisons for worker productivity. We present three studies which all use three-person gift-exchange experiments. Consistent with Akerlof and Yellen's (1990) fair wage-effort hypothesis we find that disadvantageous wage discrimination leads to lower efforts while advantageous wage discrimination does not increase efforts on average. Two…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/12/2010
Exploiting Regional Treatment Intensity for the Evaluation of Labour Market Policies
We estimate the effects of active labour market policies (ALMP) on subsequent employment by nonparametric instrumental variables and matching estimators. Very informative administrative Swiss data with detailed regional information are combined with exogenous regional variation in programme participation probabilities, which generate an instrument within well-defined local labour…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/09/2010
Culture and cooperation
Does the cultural background influence the success with which genetically unrelated individuals cooperate in social dilemma situations? In this paper, we provide an answer by analysing the data of Herrmann et al. (2008a), who studied cooperation and punishment in 16 subject pools from six different world cultures (as classified by Inglehart & Baker (2000)). We use analysis of…
Institution partenaire
English / 02/08/2010
Identification of the Effects of Dynamic Treatments by Sequential Conditional Independence Assumptions
This paper approaches the dynamic analysis of the effects of training programs for the unemployed in West Germany, or in general the effects of sequences of interventions, from a potential outcome perspective. The identifying power of different assumptions concerning the connection between the dynamic selection process and the outcomes of different sequences is discussed. When…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/08/2010
Unemployed and their caseworkers : should they be friends or foes?
In many countries, caseworkers in a public employment office have the dual roles of counselling and monitoring unemployed persons. These roles often conflict with each other leading to important caseworker heterogeneity: Some consider providing services to their clients and satisfying their demands as their primary task. Others may however pursue their strategies even against the…
Institution partenaire
English / 26/02/2010
Who opposes immigrants’ integration into the labor market ? The Swiss case
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2010
Explaining fiscal balances with a simultaneous equation model of revenue and expenditure: a case study of Swiss cantons using panel data
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2010
The Doha Round and Market Access for LDCs: Scenarios for the EU and US Markets
Least developed countries (LDCs) hoped that the DOHA round would bring them greater market access in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries than for non-LDCs. Using HS-6 tariff level data for the United States and the EU for 2004, this paper estimates that, once the erosion from preferential access into the EU to non-LDCs is taken into account, LDCs have…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2010
Measures of export diversification
How export patterns vary across time and countries has become a subject of intense descriptive analysis in recent years. The originality of our work is to compute usual diversification indices using a very large and disaggregated dataset on exports. Export data is from UNCTAD’s COMTRADE database at the HS6 level (4’991 lines).
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2010
An invariance property of quadratic forms in random vectors with a selection distribution, with application to sample variogram and covariogram estimators
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2010
Are Training Programs More Effective When Unemployment Is High?
We estimate short-run, medium-run, and long-run individual labor market effects of training programs for the unemployed by following program participation on a monthly basis over a 10-year period. Since analyzing the effectiveness of training over such a long period is impossible with experimental data, we use an administrative database compiled for evaluating German training…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/11/2009
Active Labour Market Policy in East Germany : Waiting for the Economy to Take Off
We investigate the effects of the most important East German active labour market programmes on the labour market outcomes of their participants. The analysis is based on a large and informative individual database coming from administrative data sources. Using matching methods, we find that over a horizon of 2.5 years after programme start the programmes fail to increase the…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/10/2009
Targeting Labour Market Programmes : Results from A Randomized Experiment
We evaluate a randomized experiment of a statistical support system developed to assist caseworkers in Swiss employment offices in choosing appropriate active labour market programmes for their unemployed clients. This statistical support system predicted the labour market outcome for each programme and thereby suggested an 'optimal' labour market programme for each…
Institution partenaire
English / 26/09/2009
Long-run labour market and health effects of individual sports activities
This microeconometric study analyzes the effects of individual leisure sports participation on long-term labour market variables, on socio-demographic as well as on health and subjective well-being indicators for West Germany based on individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel study (GSOEP) 1984 to 2006. Econometric problems due to individuals choosing their own level of…
Institution partenaire
English / 04/07/2009
Measuring conditional cooperation: a replication study in Russia
We replicate the strategy-method experiment by Fischbacher et al. (Econ. Lett. 71:397-404, 2001) developed to measure attitudes towards cooperation in a one-shot public goods game. We collected data from 160 students at four different universities across urban and rural Russia. Using the classification proposed by Fischbacher et al. (2001) we find that the distribution of types is…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/03/2009
Wage inequality and segregation between native and immigrant workers in Switzerland: evidence using matched employee-employer data
We analyze segregation between immigrants and natives at the firm level and explore the connection between segregation and wage inequality in Switzerland.
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2009
Labor market reforms, job instability, and the flexibility of the employment relationship
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2009
China and India’s challenge to Latin America : opportunity or threat?
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2009
On crop biodiversity, risk exposure, and food security in the highland of Ethiopia
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2009
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