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author = "Lévy-Garboua, Louis"
Reported job satisfaction : What does it mean?
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We emphasize the major influences of experienced utility gaps or regret, i.e. the difference between what happened and what might have happened, on job satisfaction. The main prediction that we test is that job satisfaction correlates with the wage gaps experienced in the past and present, holding o...
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A Behavioral Laffer Curve: Emergence of a Social Norm of Fairness in a Real Effort Experiment
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This paper demonstrates, through a controlled experiment, that the “Laffer curve” phenomenon does not always reflect a conventional income - leisure trade-off. Whether out of reason or out of emotion, taxpayers may also be willing to punish intentionally unfair tax setters by working less than they ...
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Individual Responsibility and the Funding of Collective Goods
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When a deficit occurs in the funding of collective goods, it is usually covered by raising the amount of taxes or by rationing the supply of the goods. This article compares the efficiency of these institutions. We report the results of a 2x2 experiment based on a game in the first stage of which su...
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Individual Responsibility and the Funding of Collective Goods
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When a deficit occurs in the funding of collective goods, it is usually covered by raising the amount of taxes or by rationing the supply of the goods. This article compares the efficiency of these institutions. We report the results of a 2x2 experiment based on a game in the first stage of which su...
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On-the-job learning and earnings
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A simple model of informal learning on-the-job which combines learning by oneself and learning from others is proposed in this paper. It yields a closed-form solution that revises Mincer-Jovanovic's (1981) treatment of tenure in the human capital earnings function by relating earnings to the individ...
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A micro-foundation for the Laffer curve in a real effort experiment
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A conjecture of Laffer, which had considerable influence on fiscal doctrine, is that tax revenues of a Leviathan state eventually decrease when the tax rate exceeds a threshold value. We conduct a real effort experiment, in which a "worker" is matched with a non-working partner, to elicit the condit...
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Aspiration Levels and Educational Choices : An experimental study
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The explanation of social inequalities in education is still a debated issue in economics. Recent empirical studies tend to downplay the potential role of credit constraint. This article tests a different potential explanation of social inequalities in education, specifically that social differences...
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Job Satisfaction and Quits
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We test the wealth maximization theory of quitting behavior on the German Socioeconomic Panel (1985-2003). With the interpretation of job satisfaction as an expression of the experienced preference for the present job against available alternatives, the propensity to stay in the present job is simpl...
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Preference Formation, School Dissatisfaction
and Risky Behavior of Adolescents
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School dissatisfaction is an important component of the subjective well-being of adolescents associated with “risky behavior” like drug use, unprotected sex, norm violations and illegal behavior. We extend the standard human capital model to joint human investment (education) and disinvestment (risk...
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Responsabilité individuelle et fiscalité
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Lorsque le financement d'un bien collectif repose sur des contributions volontaires, il est courant d'observer une offre insuffisante du bien collectif en raison d'un comportement de passager clandestin. Pour faire face à
un déficit d''offre de bien collectif, la puissance publique intervient g...
un déficit d''offre de bien collectif, la puissance publique intervient g...
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