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Why do women’s wages increase so slowly throughout their career? A dynamic model of statistical discrimination

Havet, Nathalie; Sofer, Catherine - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2007

The aim of this paper is to explain the growing wage differentials between men and women during their working careers. We provide a dynamic model of statistical discrimination, which integrates specific human capital decisions: on-the-job training investment and wages are endogenously...

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Mixing the Carrots with the Sticks : Third Party Punishment and Reward

Nikiforakis, Nikos; Mitchell, Helen - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2013

While the opportunity to punish selfish and reward generous behavior coexist in many instances in daily life, in most laboratory studies, the demand for punishment and reward are studied separately from one another. This paper presents the results from an experiment measuring the demand for...

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Moral Hypocrisy, Power and Social Preferences

Rustichini, Aldo; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2012

We show with a laboratory experiment that individuals adjust their moral principles to the situation and to their actions, just as much as they adjust their actions to their principles. We first elicit the individuals’ principles regarding the fairness and unfairness of allocations in three...

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Social preferences and lying aversion in children

Maggian, Valeria; Villeval, Marie Claire - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2013

While previous research has shown that social preferences develop in childhood, we study whether this development is accompanied by reduced use of deception when lies would harm others, and increased use of deception to benefit others. In a sample of children aged between 7 and 14, we find...

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Are teams less inequality averse than individuals ?

He, Haoran; Villeval, Marie Claire - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2014

We compare inequality aversion in individuals and teams by means of both within- and between-subject experimental designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality aversion than individual initial proposals in team...

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Competition, Hidden Information, and Efficiency: an Experiment

Cabrales, Antonio; Charness, Gary; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2006

We devise an experiment to explore the effect of different degrees of competition on optimal contracts in a hidden … principals. We first show theoretically how these different degrees of competition affect outcomes and efficiency. Informational … relative number of agents because competition reduces the agents’ informational monopoly power. However, this environment also …

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Cooperation and Competition in Intergenerational Experiments in the Field and the Laboratory

Charness, Gary; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2009

to competition. The implication is that it may be beneficial to define additional incentives near the end of the career …

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Competition and the Ratchet Effect

Charness, Gary; Kuhn, Peter; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2008

competition for principals or agents. While we do observe substantial and significant ratchet effects in the baseline (no … competition) case of our model, we find that ratchet behavior is nearly eliminated by labor-market competition; interestingly this …

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Migrants as second-class workers in urban China? A decomposition analysis

Démurger, Sylvie; Gurgand, Marc; Shi, Li; Ximing, Yu - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2008

In urban China, urban resident annual earnings are 1.3 times larger than long term rural migrant earnings as observed in a nationally representative sample in 2002. Using microsimulation, we decompose this difference into four sources, with particular attention to path dependence and statistical...

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Wage Growth and Job Mobility in the Early Career : Testing a Statistical Discrimination Model of the Gender Wage Gap

Belley, Philippe; Havet, Nathalie; Lacroix, Guy - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2012

The paper focuses on the early career patterns of young male and female workers. It investigates potential dynamic links between statistical discrimination, mobility, tenure and wage profiles. The model assumes that it is more costly for an employer to assess female workers’ productivity and...

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