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Naroditskiy, Victor; Stein, Sebastian; Tonin, Mirco; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Word-of-mouth, referral, or viral marketing is a highly sought-after way of advertising. We undertake a field experiment that compares incentive mechanisms for encouraging social media shares to support a given cause. Our experiment takes place on a website set up to promote a fundraising drive...

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Exploring the Nature of Loss Aversion

Johnson, Eric J.; Gächter, Simon; Herrmann, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Loss aversion, the fact that losses have a greater impact than gains, is a fundamental property of behavioral accounts of choice. In this paper, we suggest four possible characterizations of the relative impact of losses and gains: (1) It could be a constant, such as the much cited value of 2,...

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Demand Side Analysis of Microlending Markets in Germany

Kritikos, Alexander S.; Kneiding, Christoph; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

In developing and transition economies, microlending has become an effective instrument for providing micro businesses with the necessary financial resources to launch operations. In the industrialized countries, with their highly developed banking systems, however, there has been ongoing debate...

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Welfare Benefits of Agglomeration and Worker Heterogeneity

Teulings, Coen; Ossokina, Ioulia V.; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

effects on home and job location, on land use, and on agglomeration benefits are hard to pin down. We develop a spatial …

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STEM Graduates, Human Capital Externalities, and Wages in the U.S.

Winters, John V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

markets and plays an important role in regional economic development. However, there is still considerable uncertainty over …

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The Productivity Advantages of Large Cities: Distinguishing Agglomeration from Firm Selection

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

cities toughen competition, allowing only the most productive to survive) and agglomeration economies (larger cities promote … a generalised version of a tractable firm selection model and a standard model of agglomeration. Stronger selection in … larger cities left-truncates the productivity distribution whereas stronger agglomeration right-shifts and dilates the …

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Towards a Unifying Approach of the 'New Economic Geography'

Pflüger, Michael; Südekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Models of the new economic geography share a number of common conclusions, but also exhibit notable differences, in particular with respect to the shape of the location pattern and the efficiency of the market equilibrium. This reflects the fact that these models rely heavily on specific...

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Firm-Worker Matching in Industrial Clusters

Figueiredo, Octávio; Guimaraes, Paulo; Woodward, Douglas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

that industrial agglomeration improves the quality of the firm-worker matching process. Our method makes use of recent …

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Economic Integration, Wage Policies and Social Policies

Pflüger, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

historically emerged as the core. The agglomeration rent which accrues to the mobile factor gives unions and governments in the …

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Human Capital Externalities and the Urban Wage Premium: Two Literatures and their Interrelations

Halfdanarson, Benedikt; Heuermann, Daniel F.; Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

In this paper we survey the recent developments in two empirical literatures at the crossroads of labor and urban economics: Studies about localized human capital externalities (HCE) and about the urban wage premium (UWP). After surveying the methods and main results of each of these two...

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