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Perfect Bayesian implementation
Brusco, Sandro - In: Economic theory : official journal of the Society for … 5 (1995), pp. 419-444
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The business cycle with nominal contracts
Cho, Jang-ok - In: Economic theory : official journal of the Society for … 6 (1995), pp. 13-33
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Double implementation in Nash and undominated Nash equilibria in social choice environments
Tatamitani, Yoshikatsu - In: Economic theory : official journal of the Society for … 3 (1993) 1, pp. 109-117
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Imperfect transmission of tacit knowledge and other barriers to entrepreneurship
Kanniainen, Vesa (contributor); Poutvaara, Panu (contributor) - 2007
This paper identifies several distortions which create barriers to entrepreneurship. First, in addition to the innate entry cost, there are entry costs caused by regulation. Second, union wage policies raise the opportunity cost of entrepreneurship. Third, inefficiencies in the transmission of...
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Uniform and nonuniform staggering of wage contracts
Danziger, Leif - 2010
This paper provides a model that can account for the almost uniform staggering of wage contracts in some countries as well as for the markedly nonuniform staggering in others. In the model, short and long contracts as well as long contracts concluded in different periods are strategic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003983623
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Wage risk, employment risk and the rise in wage inequality
Mecikovsky, Ariel Matias; Wellschmied, Felix - 2016
We estimate the changes in US male labor market risk over the last three decades in a model of endogenous labor supply and job mobility. Across education groups permanent shocks to productivity have become more dispersed. Moreover, heterogeneity in pay across offered jobs has increased for...
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Wage cyclicalities and labor market dynamics at the establishment level : theory and evidence
Merkl, Christian; Stüber, Heiko - 2017
Using the new AWFP dataset that covers all German establishments, we document a substantial cross-sectional heterogeneity of establishments' average real wages over the business cycle. While the median establishments' real wages are procyclical, there is a large fraction of establishments with...
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Productivity and wage effects of firm-level collective agreements : evidence from Belgian linked panel data
Garnero, Andrea; Rycx, François; Terraz, Isabelle - 2018
How do firm-level collective agreements affect firm performance in a multi-level bargaining system? Using detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data, our findings show that firm agreements increase both wage costs and productivity (with respect to sector-level agreements). Relying on a...
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The political economy of Kazakhstan: a case of good economics, bad politics?
Commander, Simon; Prieskienyte, Ruta - 2021
investment? Can 'good economics' somehow offset the effects of 'bad' politics? Kazakhstan is a case where an autocratic regime … has actively projected market-friendly policies and attracted significant amounts of incoming investment. These policies … investment disputes that question the attachment to the rule of law. Moreover, the political regime remains strongly personalized …
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How disasters affect local labor markets : the effects of hurricanes in Florida
Belasen, Ariel R. (contributor);  … - 2007
Exogenous shocks often impact a local labor market more than at the national level. This study improves upon the standard Difference in Difference (DD) approach by examining exogenous shocks using a Generalized Difference in Difference (GDD) econometric approach that identifies the effects of...
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