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. Interestingly, we find that the required degree of production complementarity for positive sorting is increasing in the number of …We investigate the effect of search frictions on labor market sorting by constructing a model which is in line with … derive the necessary and sufficient conditions for sorting in applications as well as matches. We show that positive sorting …
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detrimental to firms. In addition, CfCA exacerbates the existing distortion in sorting of high-ability workers to firms: too many …-types' sorting improves when CfCA is low and remains the same when it is high. …
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heterogeneity by investigating how personal characteristics, preferences, and socio-economic background relate to incentives and …
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This paper studies the role of autonomy and reciprocity in explaining control averse responses in principal-agents interactions. While most of the social psychology literature emphasizes the role of autonomy, recent economic research has provided an alternative explanation based on reciprocity....
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In this paper I consider the desirability of drugs that enhance cognitive abilities in the context of tournaments that are used as optimal labor contracts as in Lazear and Rosen (1981). Such drugs reduce the number of voluntary participants in a tournament, but increase individual and total...
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conclusions change dramatically after allowing for heterogeneity in effects. …
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In developing countries with weak institutions, there is implicitly a large reliance on elections to instill norms of accountability and reduce corruption. In this paper we show that electoral discipline may be ineffective in reducing corruption when political competition is too high or too low....
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We investigate experimentally the effects of information about native/immigrant identity, and the ability to communicate a self-chosen personal characteristic towards the rival on conflict behavior. In a two-player individual contest with British and Immigrant subjects in the UK we find that...
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narrowband and broadband technologies. The effects of the three main features of each technology level, which are complementarity … the complementarity, firm's resources play an important role in the adoption of technology while advancing from single …
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end of secondary school. We provide empirical evidence of self-productivity of skills and of complementarity between …
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