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Regional Dependencies in Job Creation: An Efficiency Analysis for Western Germany

Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper investigates the efficiency of the matching process between job seekers and vacancy posting firms in West-Germany, using variation across labor market regions and across time. The results of a stochastic frontier analysis shed new light on extent and regional differences of search...

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Non-Farm Enterprise Productivity and Spatial Autocorrelation in Rural Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia and Nigeria

Owoo, Nkechi S.; Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

The productivity of non-farm enterprises in rural Africa may be associated with the productivity of other spatially proximate farm and non-farm enterprises. To test for the presence and significance of such spatial autocorrelation we use data from the geo-referenced 2011 Ethiopian Rural...

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Immigration and Innovation in European Regions

Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

The concentration of people with diverse socio-cultural backgrounds in particular geographic areas may boost the creation of new ideas, knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship, and economic growth. In this paper we measure the impact of the size, skills, and diversity of immigration on the...

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Moral Hypocrisy, Power and Social Preferences

Rustichini, Aldo; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

, norms that appear abstract and universal take into account the bargaining power of the two sides. The strong side bends the … norm in its favor and the weak side agrees: Stated fairness is a compromise with power. Second, in most situations … principles to actions is mainly the fact of individuals who behave more selfishly and who have a stronger bargaining power. The …

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Linking Individuals and Societies

Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

How do individuals shape societies? How do societies shape individuals? This paper develops a framework for studying the connections between micro and macro phenomena. The framework builds on two ingredients widely used in social science − population and variable. Starting with the simplest...

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A New Unified Theory of Sociobehavioral Forces

Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

describing five sociobehavioral processes - comparison (including justice and self-esteem), status, power, identity, and … - comparison, status, and power - each associated with a distinctive mechanism, in particular, a distinctive rate of change of the …

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Shall We Kill or Enslave Caesar? Analyzing the Caesar Model

Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

paper presents a model of killing versus enslaving Caesar, based on a new theory which unifies justice, status, and power … of societies – justice-nonmaterialistic, status, and power-nonmaterialistic. Results cover members’ gains, effects of own …

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Theoretical Unification in Justice and Beyond

Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

five in the unification of three fundamental sociobehavioral forces - justice, status, and power - and the subsequent …

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A New Model of Wage Determination and Wage Inequality

Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

power depend on the configuration of agreements and disagreements; (2) Independence of mind reduces wage inequality, and …

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The Terms and Relations of Comparison, Referential, and Relative Processes

Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper develops the mathematical foundations of comparison, referential, and relative (CRR) processes. The key ingredients are: (1) three kinds of terms; and (2) two kinds of relations. Combining the three terms - absolute amount, relative amount, and relative rank - with the two kinds of...

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