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Training Funds and the Incidence of Training: The Case of Mauritius

Kuku, Oluyemisi; Orazem, Peter F.; Rojid, Sawkut; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Training funds are used to incentivize training in developing countries, but the funds are based on payroll taxes that lower the return to training. In the absence of training funds, larger, high-wage and more capital intensive firms are the most likely to offer training unless they are...

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Inefficient Equilibrium Unemployment in a Duocentric Economy with Matching Frictions

Lehmann, Etienne; Montero Ledezma, Paola L.; Van der … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

job centers. In a decentralized economy job-seekers do not internalize a composition externality they impose on all the …

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Relative Consumption, Working Time, and Trade Unions

Goerke, Laszlo; Hillesheim, Inga - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

externality can nevertheless mitigate the resulting distortion. The reason is that wages above the market clearing level are only …

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Negative Externalities and Equilibrium Existence in Competitive Markets with Adverse Selection

von Siemens, Ferdinand; Kosfeld, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Rothschild and Stiglitz (1976) show that there need not exist a competitive equilibrium in markets with adverse selection. Building on their framework we demonstrate that externalities between agents − an agent's utility upon accepting a contract depends on the average type attracted by the...

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Gender and Self-Selection Into a Competitive Environment: Are Women More Overconfident Than Men?

Nekby, Lena; Thoursie, Peter Skogman; Vahtrik, Lars - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Using a large running race in Sweden, this study shows that there are male-dominated environments in which the selection of women who participate are more likely to be confident/competitive and that, within this group, performance improves equally for both genders.

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Capital Prices and Eurozone Competitiveness Differentials

Askenazy, Philippe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Competitiveness differentials are blamed for the instability of the Eurozone. Most of the analyses focus on labour … costs or labour-market institutions. This paper explores an additional source of differentials in competitiveness: land and … companies can be also observed in some countries. Higher prices impede firm competitiveness in at least two ways: a) investments …

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Performance Pay, Competitiveness, and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from the United States

McGee, Andrew; McGee, Peter; Pan, Jessica - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

speculation that a gender difference in competitiveness contributes to the gender wage gap. Using data from the NLSY79 and NLSY97 … – suggesting an increasing role for competitiveness in explaining the gender wage gap. …

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Preferences and Biases in Educational Choices and Labor Market Expectations: Shrinking the Black Box of Gender

Reuben, Ernesto; Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

competitiveness and risk, this paper investigates whether these behavioral biases and preferences explain gender differences in … college major choices and expected future earnings. In a sample of high ability undergraduates, we find that competitiveness … in overconfidence and competitiveness explain about 18% of the gender gap in earnings expectations. These experimental …

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Career Wage Profiles and the Minimum Wage

Papps, Kerry L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

A model of on-the-job training in the presence of a minimum wage is presented. This predicts that the minimum wage will have a negative effect on a worker's subsequent wage growth when the labour market is competitive but a U-shaped effect when it is not competitive. This prediction is then...

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Aging and Attitudes Towards Strategic Uncertainty and Competition: An Artefactual Field Experiment in a Swiss Bank

Madies, Thierry; Villeval, Marie Claire; Wasmer, Malgorzata - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

-strategic uncertainty and for beliefs on others' competitiveness and ability. Social image matters, as evidenced by the fact that seniors …

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