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2 results foundAuthor: Bagchi, Aniruddha Title: Workplace Deviance and the Business Cycle Summary: We examine the relationship between the incidence of workplace deviance (on-the-job crime) and the business cycle. A worker’s probability of future employment depends on whether she has been deviant as well as on the availability of jobs. Using a two period model we show that the net impact on deviant behaviour to changes in unemployment is ambiguous and depends on the strength of two effects. If the probability of being employed for a nondeviant improves as expected market conditions improve, then that lowers deviant behaviour, while if the deviant’s probability of being employed improves as market conditions improve, that increases deviance as market conditions improve. In either case, there is a setup cost to deviant behaviour and the attractiveness of incurring that increases with an increase in expected probability of future employment. This second effect therefore increases the incentive to be deviant and thus can reinforce the first effect or weaken it. Finally, we show that an increase in optimism i.e. the probability of facing a recession going down unambiguously increases deviant behaviour. Details: Birmingham, UK: University of Birmingham, Department of Economics, 2011. 28p. Source: Internet Resource: Department of Economics Discussion Paper 11-06: Accessed May 11, 2011 at: ftp://ftp.bham.ac.uk/pub/RePEc/pdf/11-06.pdf Year: 2011 Country: International URL: Shelf Number: 121709 Keywords: Economics and CrimeUnemployment and CrimeWorkplace CrimeWorkplace Deviance |
Author: Chen, Clara Xiaoling Title: Relative Wages and Employee Theft: Evidence from Retail Chains Summary: In this paper we examine whether, for a sample of retail chains, high levels of employee compensation can deter employee theft, an increasingly common type of fraudulent behavior. Specifically, we examine the extent to which relative wages (i.e., employee wages relative to the wages paid to employees in competing stores) affect employee theft as measured by inventory shrinkage and cash shortage. Using two storelevel datasets from the convenience store industry, we find that: (1) relative wages are negatively associated with employee theft, after we control for each store’s employee characteristics, monitoring environment, and socio-economic environment; (2) employee theft decreases in the magnitude of employees’ overpayment but does not increase in the magnitude of underpayment; and (3) coworker presence is more likely to lead to reductions in the amount of employee theft when relative wages are higher. Details: Unpublished paper, 2010. 42p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed May 11, 2011 at: http://www.comiteretailfinanciero.cl/wp/wp-content/site_files/2010/08/Relative_Wages_and_Employee_Theft.pdf Year: 2010 Country: International URL: http://www.comiteretailfinanciero.cl/wp/wp-content/site_files/2010/08/Relative_Wages_and_Employee_Theft.pdf Shelf Number: 121710 Keywords: Economics and CrimeEmployee TheftWorkplace CrimeWorkplace Deviance |