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Peer Advice on Financial Decisions : A Case of the Blind Leading the Blind?
Ambuehl, Sandro - 2018
Previous research shows that many people seek financial advice from non-experts, and that peer interactions influence financial decisions. We investigate whether such influences are beneficial, harmful, or simply haphazard. In our laboratory experiment, face-to-face communication with a randomly...
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Cultural differences and immigrants' wages
Raux, Morgan - 2021
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The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market
Deming, David James - 2015
model of team production where workers “trade tasks” to exploit their comparative advantage. In the model, social skills …
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The Morale Effects of Pay Inequality
Breza, Emily - 2016
The idea that worker utility is affected by co-worker wages has potentially broad labor market implications. In a month-long experiment with Indian manufacturing workers, we randomize whether co-workers within production units receive the same flat daily wage or different wages (according to...
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Do Star Performers Produce More Stars? Peer Effects and Learning in Elite Teams
Juster, Thomas - 2014
explain differences in the rate of human capital accumulation on the job. Data tracking national soccer team performance and … individual has been a member of an elite team than when he has been a member of lower level teams. The conclusion is borne out by … a rich set of complementary data on: national team performance, player-level performance, performance of foreign players …
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I think about you : group mentality and altruism among farmers
Phumsith Mahasuweerachai - 2021
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Understanding Social Interactions : Evidence from the Classroom
De Giorgi, Giacomo - 2013
Little is known about the economic mechanisms leading to the high level of clustering in behavior commonly observed in the data. We present a model where agents can interact according to three distinct mechanisms, and we derive testable implications which allow us to distinguish between the...
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Offshoring in a Knowledge Economy
Antras, Pol; Garicano, Luis; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - 2022
How does the formation of cross-country teams affect the organization of work and the structure of wages? To study this question we propose a theory of the assignment of heterogeneous agents into hierarchical teams, where less skilled agents specialize in production and more skilled agents...
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Peer pressure and manager pressure in organisations
Battiston, Diego; Blanes i Vidal, Jordi; Kirchmaier, Tom; … - 2023
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The organization of knowledge in multinational firms
Gumpert, Anna - 2015
This paper provides the first in-depth study of the organization of knowledge in multinational firms. The paper develops a theoretical model that studies how firms optimally split knowledge between their headquarters and their production plants if communication costs impede the access of...
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