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incentives schemes is not a relevant criterion for sorting decisions in our experiment. Finally, we find that cortisol levels are … performance - in particular, tournament incentives - induce more stress than schemes that are independent of performance - fixed … self-reported feelings of stress and primary appraisals. We find that tournament incentives induce a stress response …
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structures and incentives schemes. …
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incentives, to changes in marginal tax rates. We ask whether changes in marginal tax rates are less distortionary for workers …
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endogenous sorting between lengthy and costly firing procedures. The model also rationalizes the longevity of the dual Dutch …
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; that the sorting of altruistic people to the public sector takes place only within the caring industries; and that the …
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The theory of compensating differentials has proven difficult to test with observational data: the consequences of selection, unobserved firm and worker characteristics, and the broader macroeconomic environment complicate most analyses. Instead, we construct experimental, real-effort labor...
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We test for sorting of workers between and within industrial sectors in a directed search model with coordination … applied to a broad class of assignment models. The results indicate that industries are the loci of sorting-more productive …
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This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly … predictions based on a structural model of labor supply. The main finding is that the impact of marital sorting on earnings … disequalizing impact of nonrandom sorting on inequality which is stable since the 1980s. Taking labor supply choices as given would …
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We propose an integrated framework to discuss the empirical literature on the local determinants of agglomeration effects. We start by presenting the theoretical mechanisms that ground individual and aggregate empirical specifications. We gradually introduce static effects, dynamic effects, and...
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We investigate whether, why and when prosocial engagement has a causal effect on individual employment opportunities. To this end, a field experiment is conducted in which volunteering activities are randomly assigned to fictitious job applications sent to genuine vacancies. We find that...
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