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Income vs. Consumption Inequality in South Korea: Evaluating Stochastic Dominance Rankings by Various Household Attributes

Heshmati, Almas; Rudolf, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

-to-date picture of inequality and poverty by subgroup in South Korea which helps targeting particularly vulnerable groups. Overall … those with health problems are found to be the most vulnerable groups in Korea. …

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Determinants of Financial Rewards from Industry-University Collaboration in South Korea

Han, Junghee; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

explores the determinants of financial rewards of universities sources from industry-university collaboration in South Korea … play a strong role in private university finances in Korea. …

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Dynamic Female Labor Supply

Eckstein, Zvi; Lifshitz, Osnat - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

The increase in female employment and participation rates is one of the most dramatic economic changes to have taken place during the last century. However, while the employment rate of married women more than doubled during the last fifty years, that of unmarried women remained almost constant....

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Do Foreign Owners Favor Short-Term Profit? Evidence from Germany

Dill, Verena; Jirjahn, Uwe; Smith, Stephen C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

focus on short-term profit. This influence is particularly strong if the local managers of the German subsidiary are not … subsidiary increases the probability of focusing on short-term profit. These findings conform to the hypothesis that foreign … short-term profit. However, we do not identify differences in "short-termism" between investors from "Anglo-Saxon" and other …

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Wage-Hours Contracts, Overtime Working and Premium Pay

Hart, Robert A.; Ma, Yue - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper offers a contract-based theory to explain the determination of standard hours, overtime hours and overtime premium pay. We expand on the wage contract literature that emphasises the role of firm-specific human capital and that explores problems of contract efficiency in the face of...

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Performance Pay, Sorting, and Outsourcing

Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; Henneberger, Fred; Ziegler, Alexandre - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Implementing performance pay requires that workers' output be measured. When measurement costs differ among firms, those with a measurement cost advantage choose to implement performance pay. They attract the best workers, and both the level and variability of compensation are higher at these...

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How Often Should You Open the Door? Optimal Monitoring to Screen Heterogeneous Agents

Ichino, Andrea; Muehlheusser, Gerd - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper shows that monitoring too much a partner in the initial phase of a relationship may not be optimal if the goal is to determine his loyalty to the match and if the cost of ending the relationship increases over time. The intuition is simple: by monitoring too much we learn less on how...

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Competition, Cooperation, and Corporate Culture

Kosfeld, Michael; Siemens, Ferdinand von - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Teamwork and cooperation between workers can be of substantial value to a firm, yet the level of worker cooperation often varies between individual firms. We show that these differences can be the result of labor market competition if workers have heterogeneous preferences and preferences are...

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Black Sheep and Walls of Silence

Muehlheusser, Gerd; Roider, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

In this paper we analyze the frequently observed phenomenon that (i) some members of a team ("black sheep") exhibit behavior disliked by other (honest) team members, who (ii) nevertheless refrain from reporting such misbehavior to the authorities (they set up a "wall of silence"). Much cited...

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Wages, Hours and Human Capital over the Live Cycle

Hart, Robert; Ma, Yue - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

We investigate wage-hours contracts within a four-period rent sharing model that incorporates asymmetric information. Distinctions are made among (a) an investment period, (b) a period in which the parties may separate (quits or layoffs) or continue rent accumulation and sharing, (c) a post...

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