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Information, intermediaries, and international migration

Bazzi, Samuel; Cameron, Lisa; Schaner, Simone; … - 2021

Job seekers often face substantial information frictions related to potential job quality. This is especially true in international labor markets, where intermediaries match prospective migrants with employers abroad. We conducted a randomized trial in Indonesia to explore how information about...

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Assessing dishonesty in cocoa value chains : lab-in-the-field evidence from middlemen in Côte D'Ivoire

Boutin, Delphine; Jouvin, Marine; Olié, Louis - 2024

This study investigates dishonest behavior among cocoa middlemen in Côte d'Ivoire, focusing on the role of observability and financial penalties in deterring such behavior. Using on a modified version of the "die-under-cup task", we examine the cheating behaviors of 151 cocoa middlemen over...

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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 … our model, buyers and sellers can simultaneously search in an outside market and use the intermediation service. We show …

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Digital labor-market intermediation and job expectations : evidence from a field experiment

Dammert, Ana C.; Galdo, Jose C.; Galdo, Virgilio - 2013

subjective job gain expectations in Peru. Results show that jobseekers who received digital intermediation based on a large … channel, no significant effects were found when labor-market intermediation is based on a restricted (short) set of … information. -- subjective expectations ; labor-market intermediation ; ICT ; field experiments ; Peru …

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Integrating mobile phone technologies into labor-market intermediation : a multi-treatment experimental design

Dammert, Ana C.; Galdo, Jose C.; Galdo, Virgilio - 2015

-market intermediation services on employment outcomes. By providing faster, cheaper and up-to-date information on job vacancies via SMS … results show positive and significant short-term effects on employment for public labor-market intermediation. While the … impacts from traditional labor-market intermediation are not large enough to be statistically significant, the unrestricted …

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Effects of e-commerce on local labor markets

Bauer, Anahid; Fernández Guerrico, Sofia - 2023

This paper studies the effect of e-commerce on local labor markets. We exploit cross-market variation in e-commerce price advantage stemming from the enactment of the Amazon Tax-state-level legislation that mandates state sales taxes collection to out-of-state online retailers. Introducing...

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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...

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Regulation and UK retailing productivity : evidence from micro data

Haskel, Jonathan; Sadun, Raffaella - 2009

We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and 2003. We document a shift to smaller shops, particularly within supermarket chains, following a regulatory change in 1996 which increased the costs of opening large stores. This...

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Persistent overconfidence and biased memory : evidence from managers

Huffman, David; Raymond, Collin; Shvets, Julia - 2023

A long-standing puzzle is how overconfidence can persist in settings characterized by repeated feedback. This paper studies managers who participate repeatedly in a high-powered tournament incentive system, learning relative performance each time. Using reduced form and structural methods we...

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Menu adjustment in response to the minimum wage : a return to the New Jersey-Pennsylvania border

Papps, Kerry L.; Strain, Michael R. - 2025

This paper studies how output prices are affected by increases in the minimum wage. To the best of our knowledge, we provide the first examination of how the prices of an entire menu of items at a single business adjust in response to a minimum wage increase. Using data we gather form a...

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