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Social Identity and Redistributive Preferences: A Survey

Costa-i-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank - CESifo - 2013

Social identity has become accepted as a key concept underpinning the endogeneity of economic behaviour and preferences. It is important in explaining attitudes towards redistribution and pro-social behaviour. We examine how economic theory measures social identity and its effects on preferences...

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The Economics of Books

Canoy, Marcel F. M.; Ours, Jan C. van; Ploeg, Frederick … - CESifo - 2005

and education in order to stimulate the diversity of books on offer, increase the density of retail outlets and to promote …

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Beyond the Dogma of the Fixed Book Price Agreement

Ploeg, Frederick van der - CESifo - 2003

-stocked bookshops than the diversity of published titles and that debutantes do not face big barriers to entry. One should be even more …

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The Distribution of Talent and the Pattern and Consequences of International Trade

Grossman, Gene - CESifo - 2002

In an economy with imperfect labor contracts, differences in the distribution of talent can be an independent source of comparative advantage. I study a world economy with two activities, one in which an individual's contribution to production can be measured accurately and another in which...

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International Trade and Retailing

Eckel, Carsten - CESifo - 2009

shocks. The results demonstrate that retail assortments may remain constant if consumers have a low preference for diversity …

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Distribution and Use of Knowledge under the “Laws of the Web”

Falkinger, Josef - CESifo - 2007

Empirical evidence shows that the perception of information is strongly concentrated in those environments in which a mass of producers and users of knowledge interact through a distribution medium. This paper considers the consequences of this fact for economic equilibrium analysis. In...

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Diversity, Social Goods Provision, and Performance in the Firm

Ellison, Sara; Greenbaum, Jeffrey; Mullin, Wallace P. - CESifo - 2010

The last decade has seen a growing interest among economists on the effect of diversity on the provision of social … revenues, costs, and profits. We explore this next logical question: how does diversity affect ultimate performance? We have a … office-level measures of diversity and performance over that period. We find some evidence that more homogeneous offices …

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Racial Group Affinity and Religious Giving: Evidence from Congregation-Level Panel Data

Dimitrova-Grajzl, Valentina; Grajzl, Peter; Guse, A. Joseph - CESifo - 2014

Since giving to religious organizations constitutes a substantial portion of total charitable giving, an understanding of the determinants of religious giving is a vital policy concern. Drawing on a novel congregation-level panel dataset, we examine whether religious giving is driven by...

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Do Employers Discriminate Less if Vacancies are Difficult to Fill? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart; Gheyle, Niels; Vandamme, Cora - CESifo - 2013

We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the occupation. To this end, we conduct a correspondence test in the youth labour market. In line with theoretical expectations, we find that, compared to natives, candidates with a...

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Education Promoted Secularization

Becker, Sascha O.; Nagler, Markus; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2014

Why did substantial parts of Europe abandon the institutionalized churches around 1900? Empirical studies using modern data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of secularization. We construct a unique panel dataset of...

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