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Strategic wage setting and coordination frictions with multiple applications

Gautier, Pieter; Moraga-González, José Luis - 2004

We examine wage competition in a model where identical workers choose the number of jobs to apply for and identical firms simultaneously post a wage. The Nash equilibrium of this game exhibits the following properties: (i) an equilibrium where workers apply for just one job exhibits unemployment...

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The desire for impact

Dur, Robert A. J.; Glazer, Amihai - 2006

characteristics but at different firms to earn different wages, may alleviate the hold-up problem in firm-specific investment, can …

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Wage structure and the incentive effect of promotions

Herpen, Marco van; Cools, Cornelis; Praag, Mirjam van - 2004

records and an employee survey, we provide evidence that wages are attached to jobs and that promotions play a dominant role …

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Decomposing the gender wage gap in the Netherlands with sample selection adjustments

Albrecht, James W.; Vuuren, Aico van; Vroman, Susan B. - 2004

In this paper, we use quantile regression decomposition methods to analyzethe gender gap between men and women who work … full time in the Nether-lands. Because the fraction of women working full time in the Netherlands isquite low, sample … of women into full-time workin the Netherlands, i.e., women who get the greatest return to working fulltime do work full …

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Friendship relations in the school class and adult economic attainment

Galeotti, Andrea; Müller, Gerrit - 2005

We analyze the impact of adolescents' friendship relations in their final-year class of highschool on subsequent labor market success. Based on a typology of network positions we locateeach student within the social system of the school class as either: an isolate, a sycophant,a broker or a...

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On-the-job search and sorting

Gautier, Pieter; Teulings, Coen N.; Vuuren, Aico van - 2005

This paper characterizes the equilibrium for a large class of search models with two-sided heterogeneity and on-the-job search. Besides the well-known congestion externalities, we show that on-the-job search in combination with monopsonistic wage setting without commitment creates a...

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Compensation of on-call and fixed-term employment : the role of uncertainty

Graaf-Zijl, Marloes de - 2005

-ante unable to fully observe a worker's ability and results in lower wages. Using a combination of propensity score and …

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A social network analysis of occupational segregation

Buhai, Sebastian; Leij, Marco van der - 2006

This paper proposes a simple social network model of occupational segregation, generated by the existence of inbreeding bias among individuals of the same social group. If network referrals are important in getting a job, then expected inbreeding bias in the social structure results in different...

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Wages and employment in a random social network with arbitrary degree distribution

Ioannides, Yannis M.; Soetevent, Adriaan R. - 2006

Empirical studies of labor markets show that social contacts are an important source of job-related information [Ioannides and Loury (2004)]. At the same time, wage differences among workers may be explained only in part by differences in individual background characteristics. Such findings...

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Confidence management : on interpersonal comparisons in teams

Crutzen, Benoît; Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - 2007

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