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Biased Beliefs and Imperfect Information

Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We perform an incentivized experiment designed to assess the accuracy of beliefs about characteristics and decisions. Subjects are asked to declare some specific choices and characteristics with different levels of observability from an external point of view, and typically formed through real...

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Testing Canonical Tournament Theory: On the Impact of Risk, Social Preferences and Utility Structure

Sheremeta, Roman M.; Wu, Steven Y. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We use experiments to test comparative statics predictions of canonical tournament theory. Both the roles of principal and agent are populated by human subjects, allowing us to test predictions for both incentive responses and optimal tournament design. Consistent with theory, we observed an...

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Information and Competition Entry

Ewers, Mara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition failure, where competition failure occurs when a subject...

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Image and Misreporting

Ewers, Mara; Zimmermann, Florian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

In this paper we ask if reports of private information about skills, abilities or achievements are affected by image concerns. We develop a simple model that illustrates how image utility can lead to misreporting of private information in contexts where truthful reports maximize monetary...

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E-Lections: Voting Behavior and the Internet

Falck, Oliver; Gold, Robert; Heblich, Stephan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper analyses the effect of information disseminated by the Internet on voting behavior. We address endogeneity … in Internet availability by exploiting regional and technological peculiarities of the preexisting voice telephony … network that hinder the roll-out of fixed-line broadband infrastructure for high-speed Internet. We find small negative …

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Crime and the Labour Market: Evidence from a Survey of Inmates

Entorf, Horst - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

In this paper data from a survey of 1,771 inmates conducted in 31 German prisons provide microeconometric evidence on the relationship between individual anticipated labour market opportunities and the perceived probability of future recidivism. Results show that inmates with poor labour market...

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The Internet as a Data Source for Advancement in Social Sciences

Askitas, Nikos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This paper advocates the use of Internet data for social sciences with a special focus on human resources issues. It … discusses the potentials and challenges of Internet data for social sciences and presents a selection of the relevant literature …. Internet data can successfully be applied to a very wide range of human resource issues including forecasting (e.g. of …

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Testing the Validity of Item Non-Response as a Proxy for Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills

Kassenboehmer, Sonja C.; Schurer, Stefanie; Leung, Felix - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Cognitive and non-cognitive skills are important determinants of labor market outcomes, but are often unobserved. We propose a proxy for these skills derived from item non-response information and a procedure to test its validity. Exploiting a unique data-collection feature of an Australian...

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Employment Subsidies, Informal Economy and Women's Transition into Work in a Depressed Area: Evidence from a Matching Approach

Deidda, Manuela; Di Liberto, Adriana; Foddi, Marta; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We analyze the effects of an ALMP for disadvantaged workers implemented in a depressed area of Italy. Using propensity-score matching, we find that a) the employment subsidy had a positive effect for participants on both the probability of finding a job and income, b) the outcome of the policy...

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Eliciting Illegal Migration Rates through List Randomization

McKenzie, David; Siegel, Melissa - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Most migration surveys do not ask about the legal status of migrants due to concerns about the sensitivity of this question. List randomization is a technique that has been used in a number of other social science applications to elicit sensitive information. We trial this technique by adding it...

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