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Repeated selection with heterogenous individuals and relative age effects

Dawid, Herbert; Mühlheußer, Gerd - 2012

of training they receive, which is often allocated on the basis of repeated selection. We analyze optimal selection … determinant for performance differentials within cohorts. We find that the optimal policy is pro-competitive at later selection … occur at early stages, where selection is either counter-competitive (i.e. individuals with low skill signals are selected …

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Political economists are neither selfish nor indoctrinated

Frey, Bruno S.; Meier, Stephan - 2001

particular behavior of economists can be explained by a selection effect. …

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Genetic distance and international migrant selection

Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura; Ruhose, Jens - 2015 - This version: July 2015

migrant selection. We analyze bilateral country-level education-specific migration stocks from 85 sending countries to the 15 …

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Estimating immigrant earnings profiles when migrations are temporary

Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2016

The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many - if not most - migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...

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Efficiency-morality trade-offs in repugnant transactions : a choice experiment

Elías, Julio; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario - 2016

Societies prohibit many transactions considered morally repugnant, although potentially efficiency-enhancing. We conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors. Preferences were heterogeneous, ranging from...

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Will increased wages reduce shortage of nurses? : a panel data analysis of nurses' labour supply

Askildsen, Jan Erik; Baltagi, Badi H.; Holmås, Tor Helge - 2002

heterogeneity, sample selection and instrumenting for possible endogeneity is 0.21. Individual and institutional features are …

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Weber's law and the biological evolution of risk preferences : the selective dominance of the logarithmic utility function

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2002

biological selection process in the sense that a population following any other preference for decision-making under risk will …

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Selection in tournaments : the case of chess players

Linnemer, Laurent; Visser, Michael S. - 2015

amount. Furthermore, under certain conditions self-selection implies that participants with high observed strength levels …

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Average-cost pricing and dynamic selection incentives in the hospital sector

Kifmann, Mathias; Siciliani, Luigi - 2014

This study investigates hospitals’ dynamic incentives to select patients when hospitals are remunerated according to a prospective payment system of the DRG type. Given that prices typically reflect past average costs, we use a discrete-time dynamic framework. Patients differ in severity...

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International trade with heterogeneous firms : theory and evidence

Bonfiglioli, Alessandra; Crinò, Rosario; Gancia, Gino … - 2021

firms shows that trade leads to between-firm reallocations and selection: it shifts employment towards firms with the best …

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