Raising Children to Work Hard: Altruism, Work Norms and Social Insurance

Arbeitspapier

Children who can count on support from altruistic parents may not try hard to succeed in the labor market. Moreover, parental altruism makes withdrawal of such support non-credible. To promote work effort, parents may want to instill norms which later cause their children to experience guilt or shame associated with failure to support themselves. While social insurance pools risk across families, we show that it also creates a free-rider problem among parents in terms of norm formation. We also examine the formation of norms requiring children to support their parents financially in old age.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IUI Working Paper ; No. 557

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Household Behavior and Family Economics: Other ; Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers ; Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents: Household
• Thema: Work norms ; Social insurance ; Altruism ; Altruismus ; Familiensoziologie ; Arbeitsethik ; Sozialversicherung ; Trittbrettfahrerverhalten ; Theorie

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Lindbeck, Assar ; Nyberg, Sten
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): The Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IUI)
• (wo): Stockholm
• (wann): 2001

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/94765
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ