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Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

optimum. In one implementation there is a common labor income tax schedule, and a repayment schedule for government loans …

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Hidden Action, Identification, and Organization Design

Schnedler, Wendelin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Incentives often fail in inducing economic agents to engage in a desirable activity; implementability is restricted. What restricts implementability? When does re-organization help to overcome this restriction? This paper shows that any restriction of implementability is caused by an...

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Some Practical Guidance for the Implementation of Propensity Score Matching

Caliendo, Marco; Kopeinig, Sabine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

researcher has decided to use PSM, he is confronted with a lot of questions regarding its implementation. To begin with, a first …. Each implementation step involves a lot of decisions and different approaches can be thought of. The aim of this paper is … to discuss these implementation issues and give some guidance to researchers who want to use PSM for evaluation purposes. …

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Youth Unemployment in Belgium: Diagnosis and Key Remedies

Cockx, Bart - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

In Belgium youth unemployment is structurally higher than the European (EU27) average, in particular for the low …

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The Regional Dimension of Collective Wage Bargaining: The Case of Belgium

Plasman, Robert; Rusinek, Michael; Tojerow, Ilan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

. The second solution, the regionalisation of wage bargaining, is frequently mentioned in Belgium or in Italy where regional …

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Benchmarking Regions: Estimating the Counterfactual Distribution of Labor Market Outcomes

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Furdas, Marina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper develops and implements a new benchmarking approach for labor market regions. Based on panel data for regions, we use nonparametric matching techniques to account for observed labor market characteristics and for spatial proximity. As the benchmark, we estimate the counterfactual...

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The Effects of Prize Spread and Noise in Elimination Tournaments: A Natural Field Experiment

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert; Non, Arjan; Verbeke, Willem - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We conduct a natural field experiment in a large retail chain to test basic predictions of tournament theory regarding prize spread and noise. A random subset of the 208 stores participates in two-stage elimination tournaments. Tournaments differ in the distribution of prize money across winners...

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Design and Implementation of Pay for Performance

Gibbs, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

A large, mature and robust economic literature on pay for performance now exists, which provides a useful framework for thinking about pay for performance systems. I use the lessons of the literature to discuss how to design and implement pay for performance in practice.

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On the Sorting of Physicians across Medical Occupations

Courty, Pascal; Marschke, Gerald - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We model the sorting of medical students across medical occupations and identify a mechanism that explains the possibility of differential productivity across occupations. The model combines moral hazard and matching of physicians and occupations with pre-matching investments. In equilibrium...

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The Benefits of Being Economics Professor A (and not Z)

Praag, C. Mirjam van; Praag, Bernard M.S. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention in the economics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose last name initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been a first author more...

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