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How much does a year off cost? : estimating the wage effects of employment breaks and part-time periods
Beblo, Miriam - 2000
Discontinuities in the employment profile are supposed to cause wage cuts since they imply an interruption in the accumulation of human capital as well as a depreciation of the human capital stock built up in the past. In this paper, we estimate the return to effective experience, taking into...
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Career paths in online labor markets : same, same but different?
Seifried, Mareike; Jurowetzki, Roman; Kretschmer, Tobias - 2020
The emergence of online labor markets calls the validity of traditional career models into question. Given the … whether there are distinct trajectories and patterns in online careers. We document dominant career paths and develop a … taxonomy of novel career patterns in OLMs. This addresses recent calls for research to update and refine our theories and …
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Gender and promotions : evidence from academic economists in France
Bosquet, Clément; Combes, Pierre-Philippe; … - 2017
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The unexpected compression: competition at work in the low wage labor market
Autor, David H.; Dube, Arindrajit; McGrew, Annie - 2024
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Democracy downsized : auditing the commercialised public sector
Muetzelfeldt, Michael - 1994
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Relational contracts with private information on the future value of the relationship : the upside of implicit downsizing costs
Fahn, Matthias; Klein, Nicolas Alexandre - 2018
We analyze a relational contracting problem, in which the principal has private information about the future value of the relationship. In order to reduce bonus payments, the principal is tempted to claim that the value of the future relationship is lower than it actually is. To induce...
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Layoffs and productivity at a Bangladeshi sweater factory
Akerlof, Robert; Ashraf, Anik; Macchiavello, Rocco; … - 2023
Conflicts between management and workers are common and can have significant impacts on productivity. Combining ethnographic, survey and administrative records from a large Bangladeshi sweater factory, we study how workers responded to management's decision to lay off about a quarter of the...
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Anorexia, body image and peer effects : evidence from a sample of European women
Costa-Font, Joan; Jofre-Bonet, Mireia - 2011
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Scared straight? : threat and assimilation of refugees in Germany
Jaschke, Philipp; Sardoschau, Sulin; Tabellini, Marco - 2023
This paper studies the effects of local threat on cultural and economic assimilation of refugees, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in their allocation across German regions between 2013 and 2016. We combine novel survey data on cultural preferences and economic outcomes of refugees with...
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The efficacy of tournaments for non-routine team tasks
Englmaier, Florian; Grimm, Stefan; Grothe, Dominik; … - 2023
also render teams' identity and image concerns salient. We study the effects of tournaments on team performance in a non … salience of team identity, social image concerns, and whether teams face monetary incentives. Increased salience of team … identity does not improve performance. Social image motivates the top performers. Additional monetary incentives improve all …
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