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Displacement, Signaling, and Recall Expectations

Rodréguez-Planas, Néria - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2011

This paper is the first to present empirical evidence consistent with models of signaling through unemployment and to … less rapidly with unemployment spells for layoffs than for plant closings. Because high-productivity workers are more … likely to be recalled than low-productivity ones, they may choose to signal their productivity though unemployment, in which …

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Immigration, Wages, and Education: A Labor Market Equilibrium Structural Model

Llull, Joan - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2013

This paper analyzes the effect of immigration on wages taking into account human capital and labor supply adjustments. Using U.S. micro-data for 1967-2007, I estimate a labor market equilibrium model that includes endogenous decisions on education, participation, and occupation, and allows for...

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The Effects of a Universal Child Benefit

González, Libertad - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2011

I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated introduction of a new, sizeable, unconditional child benefit in Spain in 2007, granted to all mothers giving birth on or after July 1, 2007. The regression discontinuity-type design...

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The Social Contract with Endogenous Sentiments

Cervellati, Matteo; Esteban, Joan; Kranich, Laurence - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2007

Moral values influence individual behavior and social interactions. A specially significant instance is the case of moral values concerning work effort. Individuals determine what they take to be proper behaviour and judge the others, and themselves, accordingly. They increase their esteem -and...

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Redistributive Taxation with Endogenous Sentiments

Cervellati, Matteo; Esteban, Joan Mª; Kranich, Laurence - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2005

To help explain differences between the US and EU "social contracts" as well as other cultural differences, we present a model of rational voting over redistribution where individual attitudes toward others are endogenously determined. Individuals differ in their productivities and their degree...

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Work Values, Endogenous Sentiments and Redistribution

Cervellati, Matteo; Esteban, Joan; Kranich, Laurence - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010

We examine the interactions between individual behavior, sentiments and the social contract in a model of rational voting over redistribution. Agents have moral work values. Individuals self-esteem and social consideration of others are endogenously determined comparing behaviors to moral...

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Is Seniority-Based Pay used as a Motivation Device? Evidence from Plant Level Data

Bayo-Moriones, Alberto; Galdon-Sanchez, Jose E.; … - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2004

In this paper we use data from industrial plants to investigate if seniority-based pay is used as a motivational device for production workers. Alternatively, seniority-based pay could simply be a wage setting rule not necessarily related to the provision of incentives. Unlike previous papers,...

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Information Networks and Worker Recruitment

Schram, Arthur; Brandts, Jordi; Gërxhani, Klarita - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2007

This paper studies experimentally how the existence of social information networks affects the ways in which firms recruit new personnel. Through such networks firms learn about prospective employees performance in previous jobs. Assuming individualistic preferences social networks are predicted...

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Corrigendum: Stable Matchings and Preferences of Couples

Klaus, Bettina; Klijn, Flip; Nakamura, Toshifumi - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2005

We correct an omission in the definition of our domain of weakly responsive preferences introduced in Klaus and Klijn (2005) or KK05 for short. The proof of the existence of stable matchings (KK05, Theorem 3.3) and a maximal domain result (KK05, Theorem 3.5) are adjusted accordingly.

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Two Folk Manipulability Theorems in the General One-to-one Two-sided Matching Markets with Money

Pérez-Castrillo, David; Sotomayor, Marilda - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2013

We prove a “General Manipulability Theorem” for general one-to-one two-sided matching markets with money. This theorem …

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