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The gender disclosure gap : salary history bans unravel when men volunteer their income

Cowgill, Bo; Agan, Amanda Y.; Gee, Laura K. - 2024

This study investigates whether the success of salary history bans could be limited by job-seekers volunteering their salaries unprompted. We survey American workers in 2019 and 2021 about their recent job searches, distinguishing when candidates were asked about salary history from when they...

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Medieval universities, legal institutions, and the commercial revolution

Cantoni, Davide; Yuchtman, Noam - 2013

We present new data documenting medieval Europeś "Commercial Revolution" using information on the establishment of markets in Germany. We use these data to test whether medieval universities played a causal role in expanding economic activity, examining the foundation of Germanyś first...

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Do judges hate speculators?

Hornuf, Lars; Klöhn, Lars - 2018 - This version: November 18, 2018

Historically, people have often expressed negative feelings toward speculators, a sentiment that might have even been reinforced since the latest financial crisis, during which taxpayer money was warranted or spent to bail out reckless investors. In this paper, we conjecture that judges may also...

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Responsibility and redistribution : the case of first best taxation

Tungodden, Bertil - 2001

this interpretation of the ethics of responsibility and the ethics of compensation within a broad class of economic … ethics of compensation, and we report an impossibility result that clarifies the source of this conflict. …

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Walk the line : conflict, state capacity and the political dynamics of reform

Jain, Sanjay; Majumdar, Sumon; Mukand, Sharun W. - 2014 - Rev.

This paper develops a dynamic framework to analyze the political sustainability of economic reforms in developing countries. First, we demonstrate that economic reforms that are proceeding successfully may run into a political impasse, with the reform's initial success having a negative impact...

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Optimal incentive contracts for a worker who envies his boss : presented at CESifo Venice Summer Institute, Workshop on Dissecting Globalization, July 2004

Dur, Robert A. J.; Glazer, Amihai - 2004

awarded stock options, why incentive pay is usually lower in non-profit organizations, and higher in larger firms. Envy may …

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How do employers use compensation history? : evidence from a field experiment

Barach, Moshe A.; Horton, John J. - 2017

We report the results of a field experiment in which treated employers could not observe the compensation history of …

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Compensation for loss of work income in personal injury cases

Danziger, Leif; Katz, Eliakim - 2017

What is the appropriate lump-sum compensation for loss of work income in personal injury cases? Since generally future … work income is not known with certainty, compensation for its loss must be based on statistical considerations. Typically … economic theory to address this issue. We find that the relation between the appropriate compensation and the mean and median …

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Fair long-term care insurance

Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2019

The study of optimal long-term care (LTC) social insurance is generally carried out under the utilitarian social criterion, which penalizes individuals who have a lower capacity to convert resources into well-being, such as dependent elderly individuals or prematurely dead individuals. This...

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Compensation in personal injury cases : mean or median income?

Danziger, Leif; Katz, Eliakim - 2019

Courts typically base compensation for loss of income in personal injury cases on either mean or median work income …-whole (full) compensation and mean and median work incomes. Given that consumption uncertainty associated with compensation … generally exceeds that associated with work income, we show that the appropriate make-whole compensation exceeds mean (and …

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