Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/141464 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 9705
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper seeks to extend the domain of identity economics by exploring motivational foundations of in-group cooperation and out-group competition. On this basis, we explore the reflexive interaction between individual economic decisions and social identities in response to technological change in market economies. Our analysis explores how technological change falling on marketable goods and services, rather than nonmarket caring relationships, leads to a restructuring of identities, which increases the scope of individualism and promotes positional competition at the expense of caring activities. Since positional competition generates negative externalities while caring activities create positive ones, these developments have important welfare implications.
Subjects: 
motivation
reflexivity
cooperation
identity
technological progress
bowling alone
JEL: 
A13
D03
D62
D71
I31
O10
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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