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The Dark, and Independent, Side of the Italian Labour Market

Bovi, Maurizio - EconWPA - 2005

In many countries the shadow employment has a very high priority among policymakers. A new time series for this component of the labour market has been recently released by the Italian institute of statistics. Taken together they give the motivation and the occasion for a fresh analysis of the...

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THE HIDDEN COSTS AND RETURNS OF INCENTIVES — TRUST AND TRUSTWORTHINESS AMONG CEOs

Fehr, Ernst; List, John A. - EconWPA - 2004

situations requiring trust and trustworthiness. As a control we compare the behavior of CEOs with the behavior of students. We … find that CEOs are considerably more trusting and exhibit more trustworthiness than students—thus reaching substantially … higher efficiency levels than students. Moreover, we find that, for CEOs as well as for students, incentives based on …

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Labour productivity growth and industry structure. The impact of industry structure on productivity growth, export prices and labour compensation.

Sinkkonen, Johanna - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper labour productivity growth and its impacts are studied at the industry level. The development of productivity is analysed in 54 industries in 14 EU countries and in the US between 1979 and 2001. The conclusion of the study is that the industry structure that leads to fast...

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Optimal Monitoring with External Incentives: The Case of Tipping

Azar, Ofer H. - EconWPA - 2003

The article examines the optimal choice of monitoring intensity when workers face external incentives (incentives that are not provided by the firm), such as tips, satisfaction from working well, or the desire to build reputation in order to be more attractive to other employers. Increase in...

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Some Deadweight Losses from the Minimum Wage: The Cases of Full and Partial Compliance

Palda, Filip - EconWPA - 2001

This paper highlights the social costs from non-price rationing of the labour force due to the minimum wage. By short-circuiting the ability of low reservation-wage workers to underbid high-reservation wage workers, the minimum wage interferes with the market's basic function of grouping the...

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Inside the Black Box of Temporary Help Agencies

Kvasnicka, Michael - EconWPA - 2003

Based on a new panel dataset created in close cooperation with one of the largest temporary help agencies (THAs) in Germany, this paper presents novel evidence on key aspects of temporary agency work, a segment of the labor market that despite its growing importance remains underresearched. In...

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Inside the Black Box of Temporary Help Agencies

Kvasnicka, Michael - EconWPA - 2003

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ROBUSTNESS AND REAL CONSEQUENCES OF NOMINAL WAGE RIGIDITY

Fehr, Ernst; Goette, Lorenz - EconWPA - 2004

where wage inflation has been very low for many years in the 1990s. We find that the rigidity of nominal wages is a robust … adjustments. In the absence of downward nominal rigidity, real wages would indeed be quite responsive to unemployment. Moreover … of nominal wages indeed contributes to unemployment. …

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Education, incomes, poverty and inequality in Ghana in the 1990s

Teal, Francis - EconWPA - 2004

Three issues are addressed in this paper. First, we use both household and macro data to establish how fast per capita consumption and incomes grew in Ghana in the 1990s. Second, we ask how much of the rise in incomes was due to rises in the level of human capital and how much reflected...

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The implications of tipping for economics and management

Azar, Ofer H. - EconWPA - 2003

Tipping is a phenomenon that illustrates the importance of social norms and psychological reasons in motivating economic behavior. People tip because this is the social norm and disobeying norms results in psychological disutility. Tipping is also economically important: in the United States...

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