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We study the responses of regional employment and nominal wages to trade liberalization, exploiting the natural experiment provided by the opening of Central and Eastern European markets after the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1990. Using data for Austrian municipalities, we examine differential...
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Stereotypes, role models played by teachers and social norms are known to push girls to choose humanities rather than science. Do professors directly contribute to this strong selection by discriminating more against girls in more scientific subjects? Using the entrance exam of a French higher...
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We evaluate the wage impact of the strong and rapid increase in schooling levels experienced by the cohorts born after WWII in France. In order to identify the causal effect of education, we exploit the fact that the small group of people graduating from elite education (Grandes Ecoles) remained...
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Although the optimal policy under endogenous fertility has been widely studied, the optimal public intervention under endogenous childbearing age has remained largely unexplored. This paper examines the optimal family policy in a context where the number and the timing of births are chosen by...
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. Nevertheless, this optimal utilisation is lessened by weak or even negative incentives which may lead to a sub-optimal equilibrium …
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This paper examines the incentives from stock options for loss-averse employees subject to probability weighting …, the model predicts that incentives are maximized for strike prices set around the stock price at inception. This finding …
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different incentives, in particular strong monetary incentives ; i.e. that make miscalibration costly. Our main result is that a …
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This paper is an attempt to understand how rules operate in organisations. I focus on the links between organisational routines and rules that are defined as incomplete since they come to their application. I analyse the role of routines in managing the incompleteness of rules. I present a case...
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experimental design also allows us to investigate the impact of monetary incentives in the gain domain. The main result is twofold … choices significantly differ in the gain domain. Our results suggest that the use of monetary incentives may be more crucial …
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with managers from companies with different incentives, work habits and recruiting methods. In this paper, we investigate …, which occur in both compensation incentives and team composition. The results of a real task experiment conducted with … managers within a large pharmaceutical company not only show that changes in compensation incentives affect performance but …
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