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Comparing Students to Workers : The Effects of Social Framing on Behavior in Distribution Games

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Burks, Stephen V.; Verhoogen, Eric A. - 2004

To investigate the external validity of Ultimatum and Dictator game behavior we conduct experiments in field settings with naturally occurring variation in "social framing." Our participants are students at Middlebury College, non-traditional students at Kansas City Kansas Community College...

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Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001

knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a ?Solovian zone? where wages increase with … bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than set … employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase them in rich …

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Causes of changing earnings inequality

Snower, Dennis J. - 1999

This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand-supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained....

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Tax Evasion and Social Interactions

Fortin, Bernard; Lacroix, Guy; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2004

The paper extends the standard tax evasion model by allowing for social interactions. In Manski?s (1993) nomenclature, our model takes into account social conformity effects (i.e., endogenous interactions), fairness effects (i.e., exogenous interactions) and sorting effects (i.e., correlated...

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An Experimental Study on the Effects of Communication, Credibility, and Clustering in Network Games

Charness, Gary; Feri, Francesco; Meléndez-Jiménez, … - 2019

The effectiveness of social interaction depends strongly on an ability to coordinate actions efficiently. In large networks, such coordination may be very difficult to achieve and may depend on the communication technology and the network structure. We examine how pre-play communication and...

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Who Runs? Honesty and Self-Selection into Politics

Fehrler, Sebastian; Fischbacher, Urs; Schneider, Maik T. - 2016

campaign by making non-binding promises to voters. Confirming the model's key predictions, we find in the experiment that …

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Threat and punishment in public good experiments

Masclet, David; Noussair, Charles N.; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2010

punishment, so that they increase overall welfare? We report an experiment in which players can issue non-binding threats to …

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Threat and Punishment in Public Good Experiments

Masclet, David; Noussair, Charles N.; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

punishment, so that they increase overall welfare? We report an experiment in which players can issue non-binding threats to …

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Investigating the Quitting Decision of Nurses: Panel Data Evidence from the British National Health Service

Frijters, Paul; Shields, Michael A.; Price, Stephen Wheatley - 2003

. However, whilst the effect of wages is found to be statistically significant, the predicted impact of an increase in nurses …

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A Note on the Redistributive Effect of Immigration

Euwals, Rob; Roodenburg, Hans - 2003

In this paper, we study gains and losses that accrue to natives because of immigration. The gain on the aggregated level is called the ?immigration surplus?, which can be seen as analogous to a consumer surplus. We derive changes in the earnings of native owners of production factors by...

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