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Shutdown Contests in Multi-Plant Firms and Governmental Intervention

Kräkel, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

When a multi-plant firm must close one unit due to declining demand it can choose between two alternatives. On the one hand, the firm can announce a certain span of time in which the plants are evaluated according to relative performance with the least performing plant being shut down in the end...

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Charity Auctions: A Field Experimental Investigation

Carpenter, Jeffrey; Holmes, Jessica; Matthews, Peter Hans - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

empirically, about the properties of charity auctions. The small theoretical literature suggests that the all-pay auction should … by the first price auction. Our design also allows us to identify differential participation as the source of the …

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Horizontal Mismatch in the Labour Market of Graduates: The Role of Signalling

Domadenik, Polona; Farčnik, Daša; Pastore, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We follow Brodaty et al. (2008) and develop a model within the signalling literature where an employer decides whether … signalling effect of individual and institutional quality of study on individual horizontal match quality. First, based on a …

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The Good, the Bad and the Naive: Do Fair Prices Signal Good Types or Do They Induce Good Behaviour?

Dulleck, Uwe; Johnston, David W.; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Evidence on behavior of experts in credence goods markets raises an important causality issue: Do "fair prices" induce "good behavior", or do "good experts" post "fair prices"? To answer this question we propose and test a model with three seller types: "the good" choose fair prices and behave...

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Subjective Evaluations: Discretionary Bonuses and Feedback Credibility

Fuchs, William - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We provide a new rationale for the use of discretionary bonuses. In a setting with unknown match qualities between a worker and a firm and subjective evaluations by the principal, bonuses are useful in order to make the feedback from the firm to the workers credible. This way workers in good...

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Labour Market Signalling and Unemployment Duration: An Empirical Analysis Using Employer-Employee Data

Frederiksen, Anders; Ibsen, Rikke; Rosholm, Michael; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper tests the signalling hypothesis using detailed flow-based employer-employee data from Denmark. The primary … plausible estimates of the signalling effect. It is established that the positive ability signal of being displaced due to a … previously been ignored in the empirical analysis of the signalling hypothesis such as local labour market conditions, the sector …

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