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Measuring the Effects of Arbitration on Wage Levels : The Case of Police Officers
Ashenfelter, Orley - 1999
In this paper we provide an empirical evaluation of the effect that the provision of an arbitration statute has on the wage levels of police officers. We analyze the effect of arbitration on wages by comparing wage levels across political jurisdictions and over time using a sample of states. Two...
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Empirical Models of Arbitrator Behavior Under Conventional Arbitration
Bloom, David E. - 1986
This study analyzes a new set of data on the decisions of conventional arbitrators. The main goal is to draw inferences about the extent to which conventional arbitration decisions are fashioned as mechanical compromises of the parties' final offers, without reference to the exogenous facts...
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Is Arbitration Addictive? Evidence From the Laboratory and the Field
Currie, Janet - 1992
We test for the presence of an addictive effect of arbitration (positive state dependence) using data both from a laboratory bargaining experiment and from the field. We find no evidence of state dependence in the experimental data, and we find weak evidence of positive state dependence in the...
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Arbitrator Behavior in Public Sector Wage Disputes
Bloom, David E. - 1987
This study analyzes a new set of data on the decisions of conventional arbitrators. The main goal is to draw inferences about the extent to which conventional arbitration decisions are fashioned as mechanical compromises of the parties' final offers, without reference to the exogenous facts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012476717
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Business Practices in Small Firms in Developing Countries
McKenzie, David - 2015
Management has a large effect on the productivity of large firms. But does management matter in micro and small firms … Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria and Sri Lanka. We show that variation in business practices explains as much of …
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Real Options With Uncertain Maturity and Competition
Miltersen, Kristian R. - 2007
typical for R&D investments and mine or oil exploration projects. These types of projects are characterized by significant on …
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Economic and Financial Determinants of Oil and Gas Exploration Activity
Reiss, Peter C. - 1989
dynamic model of oil and gas exploration and development. The model predicts less of a decline in exploration activity than …
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Finders, Keepers?
Jaakkola, Niko - 2016
Natural-resource taxation and investment exhibit cycles in a vast number of countries, driving political turmoil and power shifts. Using a rational-expectations model, we show cycles result from governments' inability to commit to future taxes and firms' inability to credibly exit a country...
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Information Externalities, Free Riding, and Optimal Exploration in the UK Oil Industry
Hodgson, Charles - 2024
relevant in natural resource exploration, where discoveries are spatially correlated. Using UK offshore oil exploration data, I … highlight a trade-off in property rights design: stronger property rights over exploration well data increase the rate of … exploration, while weaker property rights increase the efficiency and speed of learning but reduce the rate of exploration …
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The Gender Gap in Preferences : Evidence from 45,397 Facebook Interests
Cuevas, Ángel; Cuevas, Ruben; Desmet, Klaus; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
takes an important step toward reconciling evolutionary psychology and social role theory as they relate to gender …
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