TY - JOUR
T1 - Judicial arbitration of unfair dismissal cases
T2 - The role of peer effects
AU - Freyens, Benoit Pierre
AU - Gong, Xiaodong
PY - 2020/12
Y1 - 2020/12
N2 - The paper analyses how peer effects affect judicial decisions over dismissal disputes in Australian labour courts. Using a panel of judges and data over 2000 unfair dismissal decisions we first test for selection effects and for randomized matching of judges to cases. We then use spatial econometrics methods to test whether individual judges’ decisions depend on the behaviour and/or characteristics of their peer group. We do not find evidence of endogenous (behavioural) peer effects, but we find significant exogenous (characteristics) peer effects.
AB - The paper analyses how peer effects affect judicial decisions over dismissal disputes in Australian labour courts. Using a panel of judges and data over 2000 unfair dismissal decisions we first test for selection effects and for randomized matching of judges to cases. We then use spatial econometrics methods to test whether individual judges’ decisions depend on the behaviour and/or characteristics of their peer group. We do not find evidence of endogenous (behavioural) peer effects, but we find significant exogenous (characteristics) peer effects.
KW - Judicial decisions
KW - Peer effects
KW - Unfair dismissal cases
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85093672507&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.irle.2020.105947
DO - 10.1016/j.irle.2020.105947
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85093672507
SN - 0144-8188
VL - 64
SP - 1
EP - 10
JO - International Review of Law and Economics
JF - International Review of Law and Economics
M1 - 105947
ER -