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Fraisse, Henri - 2011

About one in four workers challenges her dismissal in front of a labor court in France. Using a data set of individual labor disputes brought to French courts over the years 1996 to 2003, we examine the impact of labor court activity on labor market flows. First, we present a simple theoretical...

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Types of Communications Technology and Civil Conflict

Bharati, Tushar; Jetter, Michael; Malik, Muhammad Nauman - 2022

This paper introduces a unifying theoretical framework to understand the relationship between different types of communications technology (CT) and the incidence of civil conflict. In our model, one-way CT allows the government to broadcast messages they use to (mis)inform dissidents about the...

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Effects of Timing and Reference Frame of Feedback : Evidence from a Field Experiment

Fischer, Mira - 2018

Information about past performance has been found to sometimes improve and sometimes worsen subsequent performance. Two factors may help to explain this puzzle: which aspect of one's past performance the information refers to and when it is revealed. In a field experiment in secondary schools,...

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Negotiating Cooperation Under Uncertainty : Communication in Noisy, Indefinitely Repeated Interactions

Dvorak, Fabian - 2018

Case studies of cartels and recent theory suggest that repeated communication is key for stable cooperation in … environments where signals about others' actions are noisy. However, empirically the exact role of communication is not well … understood. We study cooperation under different monitoring and communication structures in the laboratory. Under all monitoring …

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Lying and Team Incentives

Conrads, Julian - 2011

We investigate the influence of two widespread compensation schemes, individual piece-rates and team incentives, on participants' inclination to lie, by adapting the experimental setup of Fischbacher and Heusi (2008). Lying turns out to be more pronounced under team incentives than under...

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Does Labor Diversity Affect Firm Productivity?

Parrotta, Pierpaolo - 2012

. Therefore, the negative effects, which are derived from the communication and integration costs associated with a more …

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Is it Necessary to Walk the Talk? The Effects of Maternal Experiences and Communication on the Sexual Behavior of Female Adolescents

Averett, Susan - 2012

the parent's communication about sex on her adolescent's sexual behavior. OLS models indicate that female adolescents with … had sex, unsafe sex, or casual sex. The only exception is a strongly significant result that more communication about sex …

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The Role of Salience in Performance Schemes : Evidence from a Field Experiment

Englmaier, Florian - 2012

in quantity and quality of output. We use data from a controlled field experiment that changed the communication of the …

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Student Feedback, Parent-Teacher Communication, and Academic Performance : Experimental Evidence from Rural China

Siebert, Stanley - 2018

This study reports a randomized controlled trial to improve teacher-student-parent feedback, conducted in a rural county in China with many left-behind children. Data are collected from over 4,000 primary schoolchildren (8 to 10 years old) over two school terms. We find that bi-weekly student...

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Identity, Communication, and Conflict : An Experiment

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chowdhury, Subhasish; Dimova, Ralitza - 2023

of the extent they involve conflict over time. Overall, the results indicate that inter-personal communication may help …

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