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What Do Employee Referral Programs Do?
Friebel, Guido - 2019
Employee referral programs (ERPs) are randomly introduced in a grocery chain. Larger referral bonuses increase referrals and decrease referral quality, though the increase in referrals from having an ERP is modest. However, the overall effect of having an ERP is substantial, reducing attrition...
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Tax Planning Knowledge Diffusion via the Labor Market
Barrios, John M.; Gallemore, John - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We examine the extent to which the labor market facilitates the diffusion of tax planning knowledge across firms. Using a novel dataset of tax department employee movements between S&P 1500 firms, we find that firms experience an increase in their tax planning after hiring a tax employee from a...
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Politics At Work
Colonnelli, Emanuele; Pinho Neto, Valdemar Rodrigues de; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study how individual political views shape firm behavior and labor market outcomes. Using new micro-data on the political affiliation of business owners and private-sector workers in Brazil over the 2002-2019 period, we first document the presence of political assortative matching: business...
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Voluntary Public Goods Provision, Coalition Formation, and Uncertainty
Burger, Nicholas E. - 2009
coalitions to provide public goods. Theory is ambiguous on the equilibrium coalition size and contribution rates. We examine the … emergence of coalitions, their size, and how uncertainty in public goods provision affects contribution levels and coalition … coalition to provide the good. Contrary a core theoretical result, we find that coalition size increases when the public good …
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Coalition Formation in Political Games
Acemoglu, Daron - 2006
We study the formation of a ruling coalition in political environments. Each individual is endowed with a level of … political power. The ruling coalition consists of a subset of the individuals in the society and decides the distribution of … resources. A ruling coalition needs to contain enough powerful members to win against any alternative coalition that may …
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Employment and Community : Socioeconomic Cooperation and Its Breakdown
Acemoglu, Daron; Wolitzky, Alexander - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We propose a model of the interplay of employment relationships and community-based interactions among workers and managers. Employment relations can be either tough (where workers are monitored intensively and obtain few rents, and managers do not provide informal favors for their workers) or...
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Congressional Vote Options
King, David C. - 1999
votes. 'This vote,' we hear, ' will either win by a little or lose by a lot.' Real-world examples suggest coalition leaders …
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The Political Agenda Effect and State Centralization
Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A.; Torvik, Ragnar - 2016
We provide a potential explanation for the absence of, and unwillingness to create, centralized power in the hands of a national state based on the political agenda effect. State centralization induces citizens of different backgrounds, interests, regions or ethnicities to coordinate their...
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Reorganization
Hall, Robert E. - 1999
One of the productive activities engaging the work force is reorganizing. When factors of production are better matched, productivity is higher. The probabilistic matching model of Diamond, Mortensen, and others provides a way to make the idea of reorganization precise. Because the flow of...
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Personnel Economics : Hiring and Incentives
Oyer, Paul - 2010
conform to theory. We survey some literature in this area and suggest areas for further research …
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