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productivity will decline on average. Firms optimally account for the regression bias in making promotion decisions, but the effect …
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The paper presents the fiscal theory of the price level in a variety of models, including endowment economies with lump …-sum taxes and production economies with proportional income taxes. We offer a microeconomic perspective on the fiscal theory by … level. Under certain assumptions on monetary and fiscal behavior, the revaluation effect reflects the fiscal theory …
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as standard intertemporal consumption-savings choices in the presence of uninsurable idiosyncratic labor productivity …
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We assess the predictive power of two measures of competitiveness for education and labor market outcomes using a large, representative survey panel. The first is incentivized and is an online adaptation of the laboratory-based Niederle-Vesterlund measure. The second is an unincentivized survey...
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, employee share ownership, and stock options--and their link to productivity. It shows that shared capitalism has grown in the … productivity, but its impact is largest when firms combine it with other forms of shared capitalist pay and modes of organization …
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This paper examines performance in a tournament setting with different levels of inequality in rewards and different provision of information about individual's skill at the task prior to the tournament. We find that that total tournament output depends on inequality according to an inverse U...
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heterogeneous firms. We build on recent evidence of a cyclical job ladder that reallocates workers from low productivity to high … productivity firms through job-to-job moves. In this paper we turn to the question of who moves up this job ladder, and the … productive firms. We find that while more educated workers are less likely to match to low productivity firms, they are even less …
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We explore the implications of trade liberalization in economies with State Owned enterprises (SOEs) and shirking. SOEs are modelled as controlled by the members of the enterprise who determine output and effort levels, while facing output prices and wage rates set by government. Enterprise...
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We examine the impact of wage stickiness when employment has an effort as well as hours dimension. Despite wages being predetermined, the labor market clears through the effort margin. We compare this model quantitatively to models with flexible and sticky wages, but no effort margin. Allowing...
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, we were unable to conclude from our data whether these productivity differences could explain the higher wages received …
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