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Aakvik, Arild; Hansen, Frank; Torsvik, Gaute - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2013

This paper investigates dynamic peer effects in a sales company where workers operate in teams and receive a bonus that depends on both individual worker and team sales. We examine how the past productivity of co-workers affects the current individual performance of team members. To address this...

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Spatial Price Differences and Inequality in China: Housing Market Evidence

Li, Chao; Gibson, John - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2013

space, making it hard to distinguish real and nominal inequality. The two main methods used to calculate spatial deflators … of house prices, which are then used as spatial deflators for both provinces and core urban districts. These new … on the level of regional inequality. Around one-quarter of the apparent spatial inequality disappears once account is …

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Psychological pressure in competitive environments: Evidence from a randomized natural experiment: Comment

Kocker, Martin G.; Lenz, Marc V.; Sutter, Matthias - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010

Apesteguia and Palacios-Huerta (forthcoming) report for a sample of 129 shootouts from various seasons in ten different competitions that teams kicking first in soccer penalty shootouts win significantly more often than teams kicking second. Collecting data for the entire history of six major...

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Understanding Peer Effects: On the Nature, Estimation and Channels of Peer Effects

Feld, Jan; Zölitz, Ulf - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2014

This paper provides evidence on ability peer effects in university education. Identification comes from the random assignment of students to sections. We find that students on average benefit from better-ability peers. Low-ability students, however, are harmed by high-ability peers. We introduce...

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SOCIAL INTERACTIONS AT THE WORKPLACE: EXPLORING SICKNESS ABSENCE BEHAVIOR.

Rieck, Karsten Marshall Elseth; Vaage, Kjell - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2012

We investigate whether a worker’s sickness absence is affected by her colleagues’ absences from the workplace. The analysis is based on unique matched employer-employee data for Norwegian schoolteachers for the period 2001 to 2006 with information on different types of absences and multiple...

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Politics in the Courtroom: Political Ideology and Jury Decision Making

Anwar, Shamena Anwar; Bayer, Patrick; Hjalmarsson, Randi - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2015

This paper uses data from the Gothenburg District Court in Sweden and a research design that exploits the random assignment of politically appointed jurors (termed nämndemän) to make three contributions to the literature on jury decision-making: (i) an assessment of whether systematic biases...

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Team or individual: What determines workers' preferred bonus schemes?

Torsvik, Gaute - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2011

This paper uses data from a firm with team production to investigate the association between workers’ productivity, risk aversion and preferred bonus scheme (team or individual). The economic model makes a strong prediction in this case. Workers who produce more than the team average should...

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SHORT-TERM ABSENTEEISM DUE TO SICKNESS: THE SWEDISH EXPERIENCE, 1986 - 1991

Andrén, Daniela - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2001

The goal of this paper is to analyze short term-absences from work (i.e., periods of seven days or less) in Sweden during a period with two different reforms. As a theoretical model we use a utility-maximization framework with two restrictions (time and budget constraints). Using multiple spell...

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“Never on a Sunday”: Economic Incentives and Sick Leave in Sweden

Andrén, Daniela - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2004

Using a longitudinal data for about 1800 persons observed between 1986 and 1991, this study investigates the incentive effects on short-term sickness spells of two important regime changes in the social insurance system in Sweden implemented in 1987 and 1991. The results indicate that the rules...

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COMPENSATING WAGE DIFFERENTIALS AND SHIFT WORK PREFERENCES. Evidence from France

Lanfranchi, Joseph; Ohlsson, Henry; Skalli, Ali - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2001

Workers with difficult working conditions can be expected to be com-pensated by higher wages. They may, for example, choose shift work because of compensating wages but it is also possible that they prefer shift work. The previous empirical evidence is mixed. We study if there are compensating...

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