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The Beveridge curve and labour market flows : a reinterpretation

Gottfries, Nils; Stadin, Karolina - 2019

According to search-matching theory, the Beveridge curve slopes downward because vacancies are filled more quickly when …

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Subsidized small jobs and maternal labor market outcomes in the long run

Collischon, Matthias; Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2024

-time mothers upon labor market return. Using a combination of propensity score matching and an event study applied to …

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Earnings information and public preferences for university tuition : evidence from representative experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021

about the university earnings premium. To test whether public support for tuition depends on earnings information, we devise … opposing tuition. Providing information on the university earnings premium raises support for tuition by 7 percentage points …, turning the plurality in favor. The opposition-reducing effect persists two weeks after treatment. Information on fiscal costs …

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The impact of immigration on wage dynamics : evidence from the Algerian independence war

Edo, Anthony - 2017

This paper investigates the dynamics of wage adjustment to an exogenous increase in labor supply by exploiting the sudden and unexpected inflow of repatriates to France created by the independence of Algeria in 1962. I track the impact of this particular supply shift on the average wage of...

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Signaling ideology through consumption

Schneider, Florian - 2022

Firms often discourage certain categories of individuals from buying their products, seemingly at odds with typical assumptions about profit maximization. This paper provides a potential rationale for such firm behavior: Consumers seek to signal that they have "desirable" ideological values to...

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Targeted incentives, broad impacts : evidence from an e-commerce platform

Hui, Xiang; Liu, Meng; Chan, Tat - 2022

Digital platforms sometimes offer incentives to a subset of sellers to nudge behavior, possibly affecting the behavior of all sellers in the equilibrium. In this paper, we study a policy change on a large e-commerce platform that offers financial incentives only to platform-certified sellers...

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The signaling role of corporate social responsibility

Blumḳin, Tomer; Margaliyot, Yoram; Sharoni, ʿAdi - 2014

CSR to signal high product quality and demonstrate that signaling gives rise to an excessive level of contributions that …

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The signaling role of charitable contributions by business : a tax policy perspective

Blumḳin, Tomer; Margaliyot, Yoram; Tsadḳah, Efrayim; … - 2016

Empirical evidence suggests that charitable contributions to public goods may be driven not only by the familiar warm-glow of giving motive but also as a means for businesses to signal high product quality. Building on this finding, we present an analytical framework that characterizes the...

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Welfare stigma in the lab : evidence of social signaling

Friedrichsen, Jana; König, Tobias; Schmacker, Renke - 2017

Using a laboratory experiment, we present first evidence that stigmatization through public exposure causally reduces the take-up of an individually beneficial transfer. Our design exogenously varies the informativeness of the take-up decision by varying whether transfer eligibility is based on...

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Human capital, signaling, and employer learning : what insights do we gain from regression discontinuity designs?

Graetz, Georg - 2017

similar credentials) on wages. Using a simple model of asymmetric information, I show that RDD estimates the information value … of a diploma. A positive information value arises if employers, unable to observe the test score that determines diploma … information value regardless of whether workers' productivity is solely determined by acquisition of knowledge and skills through …

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