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Men have fallen behind women in education in developed countries. Why? I study the impact of a transitory increase in the opportunity cost of schooling on men's and women's educational attainment. I exploit a reform in Iceland that lowered income taxes to zero for one year and compare teenagers...
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I examine a policy-making game among countries that must choose both a policy instrument (e.g., a tax or a quota) and its intensity (i.e., the tax rate or the quota level) to price pollution. When countries price pollution non-cooperatively, they not only set the intensity inefficiently, they...
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Does the composition of governance affect firm outcomes? We exploit the timings and thresholds of a gender quota in boards of directors and supervisory boards to causally determine the impact of a change in leadership on performance. Using a novel design and data on boards, we find that firms...
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seekers and firms behave during the recruitment process. In this paper we identify new patterns about the recruitment … planned search period and decreases thereafter, why most applicants arrive early in the recruitment process, and why the …
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A large part of the literature on frictional matching in the labor market assumes bilateral meetings between workers and firms. This ignores the frictions that arise when workers and firms meet in a multilateral way and cannot coordinate their application and hiring decisions. I analyze the...
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Recruitment behavior is important for the matching process in the labor market. Using unique linked survey …-administrative data, we explore the relationships between hiring and recruitment policies. Faster hiring goes along with higher search … directed search model in which firms use different recruitment margins in response to productivity shocks. The calibrated model …
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ensure stability of participation rates, regular sample recruitment is indispensable. Does the dispatch method matter for …
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Recruitment is often delegated to senior employees. Delegated recruitment, however, is vulnerable to moral hazard … relates to the candidates' type'. Delegation is then superior to direct (owner) recruitment and offering tenure' or guaranteed … seniority to the senior employee is neither always desirable for the owner nor necessary to ensure good recruitment. If there is …
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This paper estimates the causal effect of the wage on the recruitment rate at the establishment level. During the 1990s … schools with severe recruitment problems in the past and located in one specific region. The empirical approach exploits … for teachers. In a difference-in-differences framework, I find that the wage premium increased the recruitment rate by 6 …
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The aim of this paper is to examine the evolution of recruitment of elites and to investigate the nature of the links … between recruitment of elites and economic growth. The main change that occurred in the way the Western world trained its … elites is that meritocracy became the basis for their recruitment. Although meritocratic selection should result in the best …
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