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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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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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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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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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Design and implementation of pay for performance

Gibbs, Michael - 2012

A large, mature and robust economic literature on pay for performance now exists, which provides a useful framework for thinking about pay for performance systems. I use the lessons of the literature to discuss how to design and implement pay for performance in practice. -- incentives ; pay for...

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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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Does entry regulation hinder job creation? : evidence from the French retail industry

Bertrand, Marianne; Kramarz, Francis - 2002

Are product market and entry regulation key sources of low employment growth in many European countries? We investigate this question in the context of the French retail trade industry. Since 1974, approval by regional zoning boards has been required for the creation or extension of any large...

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Quality and price setting of high-tech goods

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Talavera, Oleksandr; Nam Hoai Vu - 2021

This paper investigates the link between product quality and price setting for central processing units (CPUs). Using thousands of price quotes from a popular price-comparison website, we find that market fundamentals, such as the number of sellers, median price, share of convenient prices and...

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