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Trust in public institutions over the business cycle
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2011
the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …We document that trust in public institutions and particularly trust in banks, business and government has declined … over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278438
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Socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of health shocks on earnings: Evidence from population-wide data on Swedish workers
Lundborg, Petter; Nilsson, Martin; Vikström, Johan - 2011
In this paper, we estimate socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of unexpected health shocks on labor market outcomes, using register-based data on the entire population of Swedish workers. We effectively exploit a Difference-in-Difference-in-Differences design, in which we compare the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282303
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Talking about the pigou paradox: Socio-educational background and educational outcomes of AlmaLaurea
Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - 2011
Italy has an immobile social structure. At the heart of this immobility is the educational system, with its high direct, but especially indirect cost, due to the extremely long time necessary to get a degree and to complete the subsequent school-to-work transition. Such cost prevents the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282603
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Occupational status and health transitions
Morefield, G. Brant; Ribar, David C.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2011
We use longitudinal data from the 1984 through 2007 waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine how occupational status is related to the health transitions of 30 to 59 year-old U.S. males. A recent history of blue-collar employment predicts a substantial increase in the probability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274669
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Homo reciprocans: survey evidence on prevalence, behavior and success
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2006
Experimental evidence has convincingly shown the existence of reciprocal inclinations, i.e., a tendency for people to respond in-kind to hostile or kind actions. Little is known, however, about: (i) the prevalence of reciprocity in the population, (ii) individual determinants of reciprocity,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267940
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HPWS in the Public Sector: Are There Mutual Gains?
White, Michael; Bryson, Alex - 2018
Few studies investigate the links between high-performance work systems (HPWS) on public sector organizational performance and worker job attitudes. We fill this gap with analyses of these links using linked employer-employee surveys of workplaces in Britain in 2004 and 2011. We find robust...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984525
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Trust in Public Institutions over the Business Cycle
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …We document that trust in public institutions – and particularly trust in banks, business and government – has declined … over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008868129
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Trust and Control at the Workplace:Evidence from Representative Samples ofEmployees in Europe
Grund, Christian; Harbring, Christine - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
performance appraisalsystems, monitoring by supervisors, autonomy to organize the work) and individuals’inclination to trust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005868021
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Parental Investment and the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Preferences and Attitudes
Zumbühl, Maria; Dohmen, Thomas; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2013
children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children … respect to risk and trust attitudes and thus transmit their own attitudes more strongly. The results are robust to including …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319444
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Distrust : The Hidden Cost of Control
Falk, Armin; Kosfeld, Michael - 2004
opportunistically. We find that most principals in our experiment do not restrict the agent?s choice set but trust that the agent will … perform well voluntarily. Principals who trust induce, on average, a higher performance and hence earn higher payoffs than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261958