Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 2,418
Cover Image
Relative performance pay, bonuses, and job-promotion tournaments
Kräkel, Matthias (contributor);  … - 2008
Several empirical studies have challenged tournament theory by pointing out that (1) there is considerable pay … recruitment is observable on nearly any hierarchy level. We explain these empirical puzzles by combining job-promotion tournaments … recruitment ; job promotion ; limited liability ; tournaments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755972
Cover Image
Can training programs or rather wage subsidies bring the unemployed back to work? : a theoretical and empirical investigation for Germany
Neubäumer, Renate - 2010
Our paper investigates the relative effects of wage subsidies and further vocational training on the subsequent employment prospects of previously unemployed program participants. First, we outline a theoretical approach based on a firm's hiring decision. For the relative effectiveness of both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003950725
Cover Image
Search frictions on product and labor markets : money in the matching function
Lehmann, Etienne (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper builds a macroeconomic model of equilibrium unemployment in which firms persistently face difficulties in selling their production and this affects their decisions to create jobs. Due to search-frictions on the product market, equilibrium unemployment is a U-shaped function of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003578815
Cover Image
One way the demand for labor may adapt to the availability of labor
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2012
This paper presents and tests a model that may partially explain why the demand for labor adapts to the availability of labor. In particular, I postulate that the cost of hiring declines with increases in the amount of labor available. The cost of hiring would decrease with a growth in available...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009558990
Cover Image
Severance pay mandates : firing costs, hiring costs, and firm avoidance behaviors
Parsons, Donald O. - 2011
The potentially adverse labor market effects of severance pay mandates are a continuing source of policy concern. In a seminal study, Lazear (1990) found that contract avoidance of severance pay firing costs was theoretically simple - a bonding scheme would do - but that empirically the labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009311585
Cover Image
Bonus culture : competitive pay, screening, and multitasking
Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2013
This paper analyzes the impact of labor market competition and skill-biased technical change on the structure of compensation. The model combines multitasking and screening, embedded into a Hotelling-like framework. Competition for the most talented workers leads to an escalating reliance on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009729417
Cover Image
Asymmetric information between employers
Kahn, Lisa B. - 2013
Employer learning about workers' abilities plays a key role in determining how workers sort into jobs and are compensated. This study explores whether learning is symmetric or asymmetric, i.e., whether potential employers have the same information about worker ability as the incumbent firm. I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009695981
Cover Image
Place based policies with unemployment
Kline, Patrick; Moretti, Enrico - 2013
Many countries have policies aimed at creating jobs in depressed areas with high unemployment rates. In standard spatial equilibrium models with perfectly competitive labor and land markets, local job creation efforts are distortionary. We develop a stylized model of frictional local labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009699316
Cover Image
Is ethnic discrimination due to distaste or statistics?
Baert, Stijn; De Pauw, Ann-Sophie - 2014
Employing a lab experiment, we directly test the empirical importance of key attitudes underlying the models of taste-based and statistical discrimination in explaining ethnic hiring discrimination. We find evidence that employer concern that co-workers and customers will prefer collaborating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010380855
Cover Image
Do employer preferences contribute to sticky floors?
Baert, Stijn; De Pauw, Ann-Sophie; Deschacht, Nick - 2014
We investigate the importance of employer preferences in explaining Sticky Floors, the pattern that women are, compared to men, less likely to start to climb the job ladder. To this end we perform a randomised field experiment in the Belgian labour market and test whether hiring discrimination...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403960