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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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A Competitive Model of Worker Replacement and Wage Rigidity
Snell, Andy - 2014
We adapt the models of Menzio and Moen (2010) and Snell and Thomas (2010) to consider a labour market in which firms can commit to wage contracts but cannot commit not to replace incumbent workers. Workers are risk averse, so that there exists an incentive for firms to smooth wages. Real wages...
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Voting in Hiring Committees : Which 'Almost' Rule is Optimal?
Baharad, Eyal - 2018
We determine the scoring rule that is most likely to select a high-ability candidate. A major result is that neither the widely used plurality rule nor the inverse-plurality rule are ever optimal, and that the Borda rule is hardly ever optimal. Furthermore, we show that only the...
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Wages and International Tax Competition
Krautheim, Sebastian - 2012
Rent-sharing between firm owners and workers is a robust empirical finding. If workers bargain with firms, information on the actual surplus is essential. When the firm can use profit shifting to create private information on the surplus, it can thereby reduce its wage bill. We study how rent...
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Signing Distortions in Optimal Tax and Other Adverse Selection Problems with Random Participation
Jacquet, Laurence - 2012
We develop a methodology to sign output distortions in the random participation framework. We apply our method to monopoly nonlinear pricing problem, to the regulatory monopoly problem and mainly to the optimal income tax problem. In the latter framework, individuals are heterogeneous across two...
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Information Transmission and Ownership Consolidation in Aid Programs
Dreher, Axel - 2013
example of a “delegation-scheme.” Conversely, project aid represents a more “centralized” type of aid. According to the theory …
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Information Transmission within Federal Fiscal Architectures : Theory and Evidence
Dreher, Axel - 2013
This paper explores the role of information transmission and misaligned interests across levels of government in explaining variation in the degree of decentralization across countries. Within a two-sided incomplete information principal-agent framework, it analyzes two alternative...
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Asymmetric Information Renders Minimum Wages Less Harmful
Schöb, Ronnie - 2009
We show that a minimum wage introduced in the presence of asymmetric information about worker productivities will lead to lower unemployment levels than predicted by the standard labour market model with heterogeneous labour and symmetric information
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Optimal Policy Towards Families with Different Amounts of Social Capital, in the Presence of Asymmetric Information and Stochastic Fertility
Cigno, Alessandro - 2006
We examine the effects of differences in social capital on first and second best transfers to families with children, in an asymmetric information context where the number of births, and the future earning capacity of each child that is born, are random variables. The probability that a couple...
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Asymmetric Information and Overinvestment in Quality
Belleflamme, Paul - 2009
In a standard adverse selection world, asymmetric information about product quality leads to quality deterioration in the market. Suppose that a higher investment level makes the realization of high quality more likely. Then, if consumers observe the investment (but not the realization of...
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