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Labor Reallocation in Response to Trade Reform

Filho, Naércio Aquino Menezes; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - CESifo - 2007

Tracking individual workers across employers and industries after Brazil's trade liberalization in the 1990s shows that foreign import penetration and tariff reductions trigger worker displacements but that neither comparative-advantage industries nor exporters absorb displaced workers for...

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The Effect of FDI on Job Separation

Becker, Sascha O.; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - CESifo - 2006

A novel linked employer-employee data set documents that expanding multinational enterprises retain more domestic jobs than competitors without foreign expansions. In contrast to prior research, a propensity score estimator allows enterprise performance to vary with foreign direct investment...

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Innovation Contests

Pérez-Castrillo, David; Wettstein, David - CESifo - 2014

We study innovation contests with asymmetric information and identical contestants, where contestants’ efforts and innate abilities generate inventions of varying qualities. The designer offers a reward to the contestant achieving the highest quality and receives the revenue generated by the...

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Awareness Reduces Racial Bias

Pope, Devin G.; Price, Joseph; Wolfers, Justin - CESifo - 2014

Can raising awareness of racial bias subsequently reduce that bias? We address this question by exploiting the widespread media attention highlighting racial bias among professional basketball referees that occurred in May 2007 following the release of an academic study. Using new data, we...

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The Sources of the Gender Gap in Economics Enrolment

Tonin, Mirco; Wahba, Jackline - CESifo - 2014

In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor’s degree in Economics, arguably an important stepping stone towards positions of influence in policy making and occupations paying relatively high wages. We investigate the sources of this gap by looking in detail...

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The Preoccupation of the United Nations with Israel: Evidence and Theory

Becker, Raphael N.; Hillman, Arye L.; Potrafke, Niklas; … - CESifo - 2014

quantitative criteria to confirm that Israel is subject to discrimination. To explain the motives for discrimination, we present a …

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Household Models: An Historical Perspective

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - CESifo - 2007

This paper is a survey of the literature on theoretical models of the household, paying particular attention to some of the earlier contributions, and using them to place the current state of the theory in perspective. One of its aims is to suggest that the literature’s neglect of...

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Socially-Tolerable Discrimination

Amegashie, J. Atsu - CESifo - 2008

History is replete with overt discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, ethnicity, marital status … discrimination are not equally tolerable. For example, discrimination based on immutable or prohibitively unalterable characteristics … driven by either racial (gender or ethnic) discrimination or generational discrimination (i.e., young versus old). When the …

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What’s in a Name?

Aura, Saku; Hess, Gregory D. - CESifo - 2004

discrimination may also be a factor. …

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Size Matters! Body Height and Labor Market Discrimination: A Cross-European Analysis

Cinnirella, Francesco; Winter, Joachim - CESifo - 2009

explanations for the height-wage premium. Another possible mechanism, employer discrimination, has found little support. In this … paper, we provide some evidence in favor of the discrimination hypothesis. Using a cross section of 13 countries, we show … interpret this result as evidence of employer discrimination in favor of taller workers. Our results are consistent with the …

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