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Sorting between and within industries : a testable model of assortative matching
Abowd, John M.; Kramarz, Francis; Pérez-Duarte, Sébastien - 2014
applied to a broad class of assignment models. The results indicate that industries are the loci of sorting-more productive … workers are employed in more productive industries. The evidence confirms assortative matching can be present even when worker …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403442
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Fiscal policy and occupational employment dynamics
Bredemeier, Christian; Jüßen, Falko; Winkler, Roland - 2017
We document substantial heterogeneity in occupational employment dynamics in response to government spending shocks. Employment rises most strongly in service, sales, and office ("pink-collar") occupations. By contrast, employment in blue-collar occupations is hardly affected by fiscal stimulus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596105
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The role of industries in rising inequality
Briskar, Juraj; Di Porto, Edoardo; Rodríguez Mora, … - 2023
inequality. The total variance surged by 10 log points, with 55% occurring between industries, particularly in a few low …-paid service sectors. Workers with low earnings ability showed increased likelihood of working in industries with low average firm …, inequality increased predominantly between industries and concentrated within a small number of sectors. Italy's increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014446130
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The legacies of slavery in and out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2015
The slave trades out of Africa represent one of the most significant forced migration experiences in history. In this paper I illustrate their long-term consequences. I first consider the influence of the slave trade on the "sending" countries in Africa, with attention to their economic,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283184
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Marketmaking middlemen
Gautier, Pieter; Hu, Bo; Watanabe, Makoto - 2016
This paper develops a model in which market structure is determined endogenously by the choice of intermediation mode. We consider two representative business modes of intermediation that are widely used in real-life markets: one is a middleman mode where an intermediary holds inventories which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011526728
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Equilibrium allele distribution in trading populations
Saint-Paul, Gilles (contributor) - 2006
This paper derives the conditions under which fitness-reducing alleles can survive in a long-run stationary equilibrium for a trading population, extending the results in Saint-Paul (2002) for arbitrary systems of sexual reproduction. -- trade ; genotypes ; natural selection ; gene-culture...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003297701
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Optimizing incentive plan design : a case study
Levenson, Alec Robert; Zoghi, Cindy; Gibbs, Michael; … - 2011
We study effects of a firm's attempt to optimize an existing incentive scheme to increase sales growth for direct store delivery workers. Before optimization workers reported Ratchet Effects that lowered productivity. The altered incentive plan offered higher compensation for increased sales...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009422194
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Understanding the contributions of reallocation to productivity growth : lessons from a comparative firm-level analysis
Brown, J. David (contributor); Earle, John S. (contributor) - 2008
; Hungary ; Lithuania ; Romania ; Russia ; Ukraine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755335
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Employment and wage effects of privatization : evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine
Brown, J. David (contributor); Earle, John S. (contributor);  … - 2008
but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment … ; employment ; wages ; foreign ownership ; Hungary ; Romania ; Russia ; Ukraine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755531
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Determinants of pollution abatement and control expenditure : evidence from Romania
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2008
(PACE) in the context of a transition economy such as Romania, in contrast to the existing literature which mostly focuses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771054