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Huaita, Franklin; VAlenzuela, Patricio - EconWPA - 2005

generación de ingresos de una mujer que logra convertirse en microempresaria en Chile, basándose en técnicas paramétricas y no …

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Ingresos y Microempresarias

Huaita, Franklin; VAlenzuela, Patricio - EconWPA - 2005

generación de ingresos de una mujer que logra convertirse en microempresaria en Chile, basándose en técnicas paramétricas y no …

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The workers' value of the remaining employment contract duration

Ommeren, Jos Van; Hazans, Mihails - EconWPA - 2005

This paper introduces and applies a method for estimating workers' marginal willingness to pay for job attributes employing data on job search activity. Worker's willingness to pay for the remaining duration of the employment contract is derived. We provide evidence that workers attach...

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Reciprocal fairness and gift exchange practices in the labor

Mahuteau, Stephane - EconWPA - 2002

We aim at investigating to what extent reciprocal considerations, exhibited by employers and employees, should lead to stable gift exchange practices in the labor contract, giving rise to non- compensating wage differentials among industries. We use the concept of Sequential Reciprocity...

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An Equilibrium Search Model with Co-Worker Discrimination

Sasaki, Masaru - EconWPA - 1998

This paper analyzes the effect of co-worker discrimination on wage and unemployment differentials between males and females using a search model. In the presence of asymmetric co- worker discrimination, no female-dominated firm emerges in the labor market. An increase in female participation...

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Market Forces and Sex Discrimination

Hellerstein, Judith K.; Neumark, David; Troske, Kenneth R. - EconWPA - 1998

strongest finding is that among plants with high levels of product market power, those that employ relatively more women are …

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The Two Faces of Knowledge Diffusion: the Chilean Case

Morone, Piergiuseppe - EconWPA - 2002

This paper analyses the dynamics of return to knowledge where knowledge is acquired through the combination of interactive and individual learning. We suggest that in light of this new definition of knowledge, choosing the optimal level of education is no longer an individual exercise of present...

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What is Left to Residual Claimants? The Empirics of Income Reported by Entrepreneurs and Workers

Poutvaara, Panu; Tuomala, Juha - EconWPA - 2004

Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find that … workers have higher median income in all educational groups. Without additional controls, entrepreneurs have higher average … income with all but undergraduate level of education. However, random effects and matching models suggest that entrepreneurs …

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Social Games: Matching and the Play of Finitely Repeated Games

Jackson, Matthew O.; Watts, Alison - EconWPA - 2005

We examine a new class of games, which we call social games, where players not only choose strategies but also choose with whom they play. A group of players who are dissatisfied with the play of their current partners can join together and play a new equilibrium. This imposes new refinements on...

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

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

We examine experimentally how Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) respond to incentives and how they provide incentives in 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...

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