Browsing CMI Open Research Archive by Author "Torsvik, Gaute"

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    • Caste, local networks and lucrative jobs: Evidence from rural Nepal 

      Hatlebakk, Magnus; Iversen, Vegard; Torsvik, Gaute (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2010)
      We study how local connections to persons in influential positions affect access to lucrative international migrant jobs and attractive government employment. In rural Nepal, it would not be surprising if social status, ...

    • Employee referral, social proximity and worker discipline: Theory and Evidence from India 

      Dhillon, Amrita; Iversen, Vegard; Torsvik, Gaute (CMI Working Paper WP 2015:1, Working paper, 2015-02-01)
      We develop a new theory of employee referrals into informal low - and unskilled jobs in developing country labour markets. Employers use social preferences between referees and new recruits to mitigate moral hazard problems ...

    • How middle-men can undermine anti-corruption reforms 

      Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Torsvik, Gaute; Tungodden, Bertil (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2005)
      The anti-corruption reform in the Tanzanian tax bureaucracy in the mid-1990s was apparently a short-lived success. In the wake of the reform, a number of “tax experts” established themselves in the market, many of them ...

    • Overworked? The relationship between workload and health worker performance in rural Tanzania 

      Mæstad, Ottar; Torsvik, Gaute; Aakvik, Arild (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2009)
      The current shortage of health workers in many low-income countries poses a threat to the quality of health services. When the number of patients per health worker grows sufficiently high, there will be insufficient time ...