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What happens when employers would like to screen their employees but only observe a subset of output? We specify a model in which heterogeneous employees respond by producing more of the observed output at the expense of the unobserved output. Though this substitution distorts output in the...
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in search of the best offer, both time-wise and in terms of potential regret of forgoing unique purchasing opportunities … earlier when pressured. Anticipated regret does not affect search length (neither with nor without time pressure), while … particularly focus on markets with inexperienced first-time buyers. …
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This study estimates the lifetime effects of lost instructional time in the classroom on labor market performance. For … identification, I use historical shifts in the school year schedule in Germany, which substantially shortened the duration of the …
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This paper reviews the evidence on welfare time limits in the United States. It primarily refers to experimental and … econometric evaluations. Time limits affect welfare recipients both before and after their limits are reached. Time limits reduce … of time-limit leavers, however, continues to receive Food Stamps, Medicaid, etc. The impact on employment is mixed …
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In this paper we treat an individual's health as a continuous variable, in contrast to the traditional literature on income insurance, where it is regularly treated as a binary variable. This is not a minor technical matter; in fact, a continuous treatment of an individual's health sheds new...
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We analyze the consequences for sickness absence of a selective softening of job security legislation for small firms in Sweden in 2001. According to our differences-in-difference estimates, aggregate absence in these firms fell by 0.2-0.3 days per year. This aggregate net figure hides important...
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' sickness absences). Before that time, small firms were fully refunded for the wage costs of blue-collar workers' sickness …
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Employment protection systems are known to generate significant distortions in firms' hiring and firing decisions. We know much less about the impact of these regulations on worker effort. The goal of this paper is to fill in this gap and in particular to assess whether the provision of...
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Efficiency wages theories argue that the threat of firing, coupled with a high unemployment rate, is a mechanism that discourages employee shirking in asymmetric information contexts. Our empirical analysis aims to verify the role of unemployment as a worker discipline device, considering the...
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