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Strategies of Cooperation and Punishment among Students and Clerical Workers

Bigoni, Maria; Camera, Gabriele; Casari, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We study the individual behavior of students and workers in an experiment where they repeatedly face the same cooperative task. The data show that clerical workers differ from college students in overall cooperation rates, strategy adoption and use of punishment opportunities. Students cooperate...

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Add-on Pricing, Naive Consumers, and the Hidden Welfare Costs of Education

Kosfeld, Michael; Schüwer, Ulrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Previous research shows that firms shroud high add-on prices in competitive markets with naive consumers leading to inefficiency. We analyze the effects of regulatory intervention via educating naive consumers on equilibrium prices and welfare. Our model allows firms to shroud, unshroud, or...

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A Theory of Efficiency Wage with Multiple Unemployment Equilibria: How a Higher Minimum Wage Law Can Curb Unemployment

Basu, Kaushik; Felkey, Amanda J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

different levels of wages. The model is meant for developing economies where wage-productivity links are discernible and income …

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Creative Destruction and Transition: The Effects of Firm Entry and Exit on Productivity Growth in Estonia

Masso, Jaan; Eamets, Raul; Philips, Kaia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

entry and exit as well as survival analysis of new firms. Also decompositions of productivity change into components … consisting of resource reallocation, firm entry and exit, and productivity growth within continuing firms is carried out. Our … productivity compared to incumbent firms and changes in the sectoral structure of the economy. The decomposition of productivity …

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Corruption as a Barrier to Entry: Theory and Evidence

Campos, Nauro F.; Estrin, Saul; Proto, Eugenio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Conventional wisdom depicts corruption as a tax on incumbent firms. This paper challenges this view in two ways. First, by arguing that corruption matters not so much because of the value of the bribe ("tax"), but because of another less studied feature of corruption, namely bribe...

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How Transition Paths Differ: Enterprise Performance in Russia and China

Bhaumik, Sumon; Estrin, Saul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We use enterprise data to analyse and contrast the determinants of enterprise performance in China and Russia. We find that in China, enterprise growth and efficiency is associated with rapid increases in factor inputs, but not correlated with ownership or institutional factors. However, in...

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Income Convergence and the Flow out of Poverty in India, 1994-2005

Quiroga, Barrientos; Andrea, Paola; Blunch, Niels-Hugo; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This paper explores the dynamics of income and poverty of rural Indian households, 1994-2005. The estimation strategy consists of convergence analysis to test whether poor households are catching-up in terms of income, followed by transition analysis to test whether poor households are more...

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Robots at Work

Graetz, Georg; Michaels, Guy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007. We find that industrial robots increased both labor productivity and ….37 percentage points. We also find that robots increased both wages and total factor productivity. While robots had no significant …

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Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier: Firm-Level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands

Bartelsman, Eric; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Peters, Bettina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the … conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 … are more dispersed in the Netherlands. In both countries, we observe non-linearities in the productivity effects of …

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Do Institutions, Ownership, Exporting and Competition Explain Firm Performance? Evidence from 26 Transition Countries

Commander, Simon; Svejnar, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We analyze a large stratified random sample of firms that provide us with measures of performance and each firm’s top manager’s perception of the severity of business environment constraints faced by his/her firm. Unlike most existing studies that rely on external and aggregated proxy...

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