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Contractual and organizational structure with reciprocal agents

Englmaier, Florian; Leider, Stephen - 2008

Empirically, compensation systems generate substantial effort despite weak monetary incentives. We consider reciprocal motivations as a source of incentives. We solve for the optimal contract in the basic principal-agent problem and show that reciprocal motivations and explicit performance-based...

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Real and nominal wage adjustment in open economies

Forslund, Anders; Gottfries, Nils; Westermark, Andreas - 2006

How are wages set in an open economy? What role is played by demand pressure, international competition, and structural factors in the labour market? How important is nominal wage rigidity and exchange rate policy for the evolution of real wages and competitiveness? To answer these questions, we...

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Labour Markets, Trade and Technological Progress : A Meta-Study

Terzidis, Nikos - 2019

Technological progress and trade potentially affect wages and employment. Technological progress can make jobs obsolete and trade can increase unemployment in import competing sectors. Empirical evidence suggests that both causes are important to explain recent labour market developments in many...

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Sorting and the output loss due to search frictions

Gautier, Pieter A.; Teulings, Coen N. - 2011

We analyze a general search model with on-the-job search and sorting of heterogeneous workers into heterogeneous jobs. This model yields a simple relationship between (i) the unemployment rate, (ii) the value of non-market time, and (iii) the max-mean wage differential. The latter measure of...

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Dissecting Between-Plant and Within-Plant Wage Dispersion - Evidence from Germany

Baumgarten, Daniel - 2019

Using rich linked employer-employee data for (West) Germany between 1996 and 2014, we analyze the most important drivers of the recent rise in German wage dispersion and pin down the relative contribution of plant and worker characteristics. Moreover, we separately investigate the drivers of...

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Are There No Wage Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Germany? A Reassessment

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2021

This study replicates and challenges the finding of zero wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany by Pischke and von Wachter (Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(3), 592-598), which is unusual in the literature yet widely cited and until now uncontradicted. I document that this finding...

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Inequality and Income Dynamics in Germany

Drechsel-Grau, Moritz; Peichl, Andreas; Schmieder, … - 2022

We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades. Combining personal income tax and social security data allows us — for the first time — to offer a complete picture of the distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find...

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The structure of worker compensation in Brazil, with a comparison to France and the United States

Menezes Filho, Naércio Aquino; Mündler, Marc-Andreas; … - 2006

We employ a comprehensive matched employer-employee data set for Brazil to analyze wage determinants and compare results to Abowd, Kramarz, Margolis and Troske (2001) for French and U.S. manufacturing. Returns to education and experience in Brazilian manufacturing exceed those of the other...

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Handbook of International Insurance : Between Global Dynamics and Local Contingencies

Cummins, J. David (ed.); Venard, Bertrand (ed.) - 2007

THE HANDBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL INSURANCE Gordon Stewart, President, Insurance Information Institute, New York, USA "The …, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA "Comprehensive surveys, written by international experts, provide in depth descriptions …, USA Bertrand Venard, Professor of Management, Audencia. Nantes School of Management, France. …

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Interest Rates, Exchange Rates and World Monetary Policy

Floyd, John E. - 2010

A Theoretical Framework -- Specifications and Assumptions -- Underlying Equilibrium Growth Paths -- Variations in Employment -- Some Important Implications -- Exchange Rate Overshooting -- Exchange Rate Determination -- Issues Regarding Exchange Rate Determination -- Time Series Properties of...

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