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This paper investigates empirically whether decision makers are forward looking in dynamic strategic interactions. In particular, we test whether decision makers in multi-stage tournaments take heterogeneity induced changes of continuation values and the ability of their immediate opponent into...
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high-skill) migration is becoming the dominant pattern of international migration and a major aspect of globalization. We … migration ; globalization …
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(2000) testing for endogenous competition among job seekers in a matching framework, is replicated with a richer and more … is augmented by endogenous strategic hiring behavior on the side of vacancyposting firms. Neglecting job competition, the … relevance of strategic hiring is shown using the same empirical strategy. At the same time, the test is shown to be invalid if …
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mobility within Europe. -- job mobility ; graduates ; Europe ; Japan ; US … uniform data covering 11 European countries and Japan. Using the NLSY, we replicate the information in this survey to compare … conventional wisdom, job mobility in Japan is only somewhat lower than the European average. (3) There are large differences in job …
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This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over …
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We propose a novel perspective on migration and cultural change by asking both theoretically and empirically - and from a global viewpoint - whether migration is a source of cultural convergence or divergence between home and host countries. Our theoretical model derives distinctive testable...
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According to the widely known 'culture of honor' hypothesis from social psychology, traditional herding practices are believed to have generated a value system that is conducive to revenge-taking and violence. We test this idea at a global scale using a combination of ethnographic records,...
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foreign countries; rather, results point in the direction of more general features of corporate globalization. …
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We analyse how changes in international trade integration affect productivity and the functional income distribution. To account for endogeneity, we construct a leave-out measure for international trade integration for country-industry pairs using international input-output tables. First, we...
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We analyse how a change in the probability of winning a tournament affects an agent's effort using the qualification rules for entry into the group and playoff stages of the UEFA Champions' League. Our results suggest that increasing the number of slots that a national league gets in the...
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