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A Social Network Analysis of Occupational Segregation

Buhai, Sebastian; Leij, Marco van der - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

This paper proposes a simple social network model of occupational segregation, generated by the existence of inbreeding bias among individuals of the same social group. If network referrals are important in getting a job, then expected inbreeding bias in the social structure results in different...

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The Anatomy of Job Satisfaction and the Role of Contingent Employment Contracts

Graaf-Zijl, Marloes de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

In this paper I analyse job satisfaction using fixed effect analysis and a multiple equation model. Overall job satisfaction is analysed as an aggregate of satisfaction with several job aspects. I find that overall job satisfaction is mainly determined by satisfaction with job content. All...

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Employee Types and Endogenous Organizational Design

Cunyat, Antoni; Sloof, Randolph - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

This discussion paper resulted in an article in the 'Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization' (2011). Volume 80, issue 3, pages 553-573.<P> When managers are sufficiently guided by social preferences, incentive provision through an organizational mode based on informal implicit contracts may...</p>

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Compensation of On-call and Fixed-term Employment: the Role of Uncertainty

Graaf-Zijl, Marloes de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

In this paper I analyse the use and compensation of fixed-term and on-call employment contracts in the Netherlands. I use an analytical framework in which wage differentials result from two types of uncertainty. Quantity uncertainty originates from imperfect foresight in future product demand. I...

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Pareto Efficiency in the Jungle

Houba, Harold; Luttens, Roland Iwan; Weikard, Hans-Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

We include initial holdings in the jungle economy of Piccione and Rubinstein (Economic Journal, 2007) in which the unique equilibrium satisfies lexicographic welfare maximization. When we relax assumptions on consumption sets and preferences slightly, equilibria other than lexicographic welfare...

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A K-sample Homogeneity Test based on the Quantification of the p-p Plot

Hinloopen, Jeroen; Wagenvoort, Rien; Marrewijk, Charles van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

can have better power than alternative Empirical Distribution Function tests. …

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Stone Age Equilibrium

Houba, Harold; Weikard, Hans-Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

exchange is either coercive or voluntary, and relative strength governs power relations in coercive exchange. We stress the … importance of free disposal of goods which allows for excess holdings larger than consumption, thereby modelling the power to …

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On the Measurement of Success and Satisfaction

Brink, René van den; Steffen, Frank - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

This discussion paper led to a chapter in .Voting Power and Procedures: Essays in Honour of Dan Felsenthal and Moshé … mix-up of the notions of success and satisfaction which is prevailing in the voting power literature. We demonstrate that … is predominant in the voting power literature. However, we provide two examples of sequential decision-making mechanisms …

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Axiomatizations of a Positional Power Score and Measure for Hierarchies

Brink, René van den; Steffen, Frank - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

This discussion paper resulted in a publication in 'Public Choice', 151, 757-787. <P> Power is a core concept in the … analysis and design of organizations. One of the problems with the extant literature on positional power in hierarchies is that … it is mainly restricted to the analysis of power in terms of the bare positions of the actors. While such an analysis …

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Measuring Power and Satisfaction in Societies with Opinion Leaders: An Axiomatization

Brink, Rene van den; Rusinowska, Agnieszka; Steffen, Frank - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

affect the behavior of their followers. Hence, opinion leaders have some power over their followers, and they can exercise … this power by influencing their followers choice of action. We study a two-action model for a society with opinion leaders … choice is made by simple majority of the actions chosen by each member. For this model we axiomatize satisfaction and power …

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