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Private Education Market, Information on Test Scores and Tuition Practices
Firpo, Sergio; Ponczek, Vladimir; Possebom, Vítor Augusto - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In this paper, we study the impact of disclosing information about school quality of private schools in Brazil on school choice. Particularly, we investigate whether test score disclosure affected private schools' tuition prices. In 2006, Brazil started to announce the schools' average test...
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Tax Compliance and Information Provision: A Field Experiment with Small Firms
Doerrenberg, Philipp; Schmitz, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We study a field experiment on tax compliance in Slovenia. Small accounting companies were randomly assigned to an untreated control group and two treatment groups. Companies in the first treatment group received a letter that highlighted the importance of paying taxes and informed about the...
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The Effects of Incomplete Employee Wage Information: A Cross-Country Analysis
Polachek, Solomon W.; Jun (Jeff) Xiang - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
consistent with search theory. We apply the technique to eleven countries over various years, and find that incomplete …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822747
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Experimental Games on Networks: Underpinnings of Behavior and Equilibrium Selection
Charness, Gary; Feri, Francesco; Meléndez-Jiménez, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In this paper, we describe a series of laboratory experiments that implement specific examples of a more general network structure and we examine equilibrium selection. Specifically, actions are either strategic substitutes or strategic complements, and participants have either complete or...
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Integration, Labor Market Regulation, Lobbying, and Technological Change
Palokangas, Tapio K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper examines an economic union where oligopolistic firms produce by skilled and unskilled labor and do in-house R&D by skilled labor. The planner of the union accepts new members to the union, regulates the labor market through a minimum wage for unskilled labor and supports firms by...
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Economic Integration, Market Power and Technological Change
Palokangas, Tapio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
We examine a common market which expands by integrating new regions. Capitalists are strategically interdependent through the goods market and they improve their productivity through R&D. Production and R&D employ unionized workers. The purpose of integration is to maximize a weighed average of...
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Economic Growth with Political Lobbying and Wage Bargaining
Palokangas, Tapio K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper examines an economy with a large number of industries, each producing a different good. Technological change follows a Poisson process where firms improve their productivity through investment in R&D. The less there are firms in the economy or the more they can coordinate their...
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Substitutability and Competition in the Dixit-Stiglitz Model
Koeniger, Winfried; Licandro, Omar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
The effects of competition on growth are analyzed in the recent literature by comparing economies with the same market structure but different degrees of substitutability. In this note, we show that in a general equilibrium model with monopolistic competition à la Dixit- Stiglitz the effect of...
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Market Power, Dismissal Threat and Rent Sharing: The Role of Insider and Outsider Forces in Wage Bargaining
Carneiro, Anabela; Portugal, Pedro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
One of the predictions of the insider-outsider theory is that wages will be higher in sectors (firms) with high labor …
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Playing 'Hard to Get': An Economic Rationale for Crowding Out of Intrinsically Motivated Behavior
Schnedler, Wendelin; Vanberg, Christoph - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
may create incentives to play 'hard to get' in an effort to increase those rewards. We discuss two specific contexts in … which such incentives arise. In the first, refraining from the activity causes others to attach higher value to it because … engaging in the activity causes others to offer larger rewards. Our theory yields the testable prediction that such effects are …
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