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Optimal wage redistribution in the presence of adverse selection in the labor market

Bastani, Spencer; Blumḳin, Tomer; Micheletto, Luca - 2014

In this paper we allude to a novel role played by the non-linear income tax system in the presence of adverse selection in the labor market due to asymmetric information between workers and firms. We show that an appropriate choice of the tax schedule enables the government to affect the wage...

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Biased expectations and labor market outcomes : evidence from German survey data and implications for the East-West wage gap

Balleer, Almut; Duernecker, Georg; Forstner, Susanne; … - 2023

expectations and wages, and a significantly positive relationship between optimistic bias in job finding expectations and …We measure individual bias in labor market expectations in German survey data and find that workers on average … pessimistic than West Germans. We find a significantly negative relationship between the pessimistic bias in job separation …

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Evaluating and pricing health insurance in lower-income countries : a field experiment in India

Malani, Anup; Kinnan, Cynthia; Conti, Gabriella; Imai, … - 2024

trial that randomized premiums and subsidies for India's first national, public hospital insurance program, RSBY. We find …

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Consumption dynamics and welfare under non-Gaussian earnings risk

Guvenen, Fatih; Ozkan, Serdar; Madera, Rocio - 2024

Recent empirical studies document that the distribution of earnings changes displays substantial deviations from lognormality: in particular, earnings changes are negatively skewed with extremely high kurtosis (long and thick tails), and these non-Gaussian features vary substantially both over...

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Teacher unions, teacher pay and student performance in India : a pupil fixed effects approach

Kingdon, Geeta Gandhi (contributor); … - 2008

-section of data from private schools in India. We use differences in student mark across subjects to identify within … achievement. -- Teacher unions ; teacher salaries ; student achievement ; productivity ; India …

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The twin effects of globalization : evidence from a sample of Indian manufacturing firms

Daveri, Francesco; Manasse, Paolo; Serra, Danila - 2010

sample of Indian manufacturing firms. -- globalization ; uncertainty ; training ; labor markets ; India …

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Willingness to pay for workplace safety

Anelli, Massimo; Koenig, Felix - 2021

This paper develops a revealed-preference approach that uses budget constrain discontinuities to price workplace safety. We track hourly workers who face the decision of how many hours to work at varying levels of Covid-19 risk and leverage state-specific discontinuities in unemployment...

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Industrial robots, workers' safety, and health

Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca; Wang, Tianyi - 2022

This study explores the relationship between the adoption of industrial robots and workplace injuries. Using establishment-level data on injuries, we find that a one standard deviation increase in our commuting zone-level measure of robot exposure reduces work-related annual injury rates by...

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Adverse selection in the annuity market when payoffs vary over the time of retirement

Brunner, Johann K.; Pech, Susanne - 2001

This paper investigates the effect of adverse selection and price competition on the private annuity market in a model with two retirement periods. In this framework annuity companies can offer contracts with different payoffs over the periods of retirement. Varying the time structure of the...

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Regulation and internet access in Germany

Reutter, Michael - 2001

We explain the recent events in the German market for online access using a model of a regulated monopoly renting phone lines to retailers. Retailers offer either a linear or a flat tariff to consumers. Consumer heterogeneity leads to adverse selectiion. We show why market entry for flatrate...

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