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Signaling and Employer Learning with Instruments

Aryal, Gaurab - 2020

The social and the private returns to education differ when education can increase productivity, and also be used to signal productivity. We show how instrumental variables can be used to separately identify and estimate the social and private returns to education within the employer learning...

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Age-Specific Entrepreneurship and PAYG Public Pensions in Germany

Heer, Burkhard - 2020

We present new empirical evidence on the distribution of earnings, income and wealth among entrepreneurs in Germany. We document that both earnings and income are more concentrated among entrepreneurs than among workers and describe a large-scale overlapping-generations model that can replicate...

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Does Emigration Drain Entrepreneurs?

Anelli, Massimo - 2020

Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull factors in destination countries, and find that larger...

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Discrimination in Hiring Based on Potential and Realized Fertility : Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment

Smarzynska Javorcik, Beata - 2019

Due to conventional gender norms, women are more likely to be in charge of childcare than men. From an employer’s perspective, in their fertile age they are also at “risk” of pregnancy. Both factors potentially affect hiring practices of firms. We conduct a largescale correspondence test...

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Paying Gig Workers - Evidence from a Field Experiment

Butschek, Sebastian - 2019

adds a fixed payment per processed order to insure workers against earnings risk. Our experiment tests predictions from a …

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Explicit and Implicit Belief-Based Gender Discrimination : A Hiring Experiment

Barron, Kai; Ditlmann, Ruth; Gehrig, Stefan; … - 2022

discrimination. To reveal the limitations of this taxonomy and enrich it psychologically, we design a hiring experiment that rules … forms of discrimination identified in our experiment …

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What You See is All There Is

Enke, Benjamin - 2020

News reports and communication are inherently constrained by space, time, and attention. As a result, news sources often condition the decision of whether to share a piece of information on the similarity between the signal and the prior belief of the audience, which generates a sample selection...

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Signalling in Auctions : Experimental Evidence

Bos, Olivier - 2018

laboratory experiment where bidders can signal information through their bidding behaviour to an outside observer. We consider …

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Incentive and Signaling Effects of Bonus Payments : An Experiment in a Company

Deversi, Marvin; Spantig, Lisa - 2023

Economists and management scholars have argued that the scope of incentives to increase cooperation in organizations is limited as their use signals the prevalence of free-riding among employees. This paper tests this hypothesis experimentally, using a sample of managers and employees from a...

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Wages and recruitment: Evidence from external wage changes

Falch, Torberg - 2013

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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