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The measurement of racial discrimination in pay between job categories : theory and test

Bodvarsson, Örn B. (contributor); … - 2008

The traditional model of taste discrimination in labor markets presumes perfect substitution, making it unsuitable for the measurement of discrimination across job assignments. We extend the model to explain cross-assignment discrimination and test it on data from Major League Baseball. A...

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Infinite dimensional VARs and factor models

Chudik, Alexander (contributor); … - 2007

This paper introduces a novel approach for dealing with the 'curse of dimensionality' in the case of large linear dynamic systems. Restrictions on the coefficients of an unrestricted VAR are proposed that are binding only in a limit as the number of endogenous variables tends to infinity. It is...

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Why develop open source software? : The role of non-pecuniary benefits, monetary rewards and open source licence type

Sauer, Robert M. (contributor) - 2007

A review of the basic theory of optimal open-source software contributions points to three key factors affecting supply …

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Wages, rents and heterogeneous moving costs

Krupka, Douglas J. (contributor); … - 2007

The model of compensating differentials in regional labor markets was developed by Roback (1982). The model interprets regional differences in constant quality wages and rents as compensating firms and residents for inter-regional differences in amenities. The model assumes that the costs of...

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Deception and incentives: how dishonesty undermines effort provision

Ederer, Florian (contributor); Fehr, Ernst (contributor) - 2007

In this paper we show that subtle forms of deceit undermine the effectiveness of incentives. We design an experiment in which the principal has an interest in underreporting the true performance difference between the agents in a dynamic tournament. According to the standard approach, rational...

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Social interactions and labor market outcomes in cities

Zenou, Yves (contributor) - 2008

We develop a model where information about jobs is essentially obtained through friends and relatives, i.e. strong and weak ties. Workers commute to a business center to work and to interact with other people. We find that housing prices increase with the level of social interactions in the city...

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The stairways to heaven : a model of career choice in sports and games, with an application to chess

Ariga, Ken; Brunello, Giorgio; Iwahashi, Roki; Rocco, … - 2008

We model individual careers in sports and games from initial entry to eventual exit or success as a discrete-choice, finite-horizon optimization problem. We apply this model to the international game of chess and study cross-country differences in the relative success of players. While we find...

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Gender based taxation and the division of family chores

Alesina, Alberto (contributor); Ichino, Andrea (contributor) - 2007

Gender Based Taxation (GBT) satisfies Ramsey's optimal criterion by taxing less the more elastic labor supply of (married) women. This holds when different elasticities between men and women are taken as exogenous and primitive. But in this paper we also explore differences in gender...

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A new unified theory of sociobehavioral forces

Jasso, Guillermina (contributor) - 2007

This paper proposes a new unified theory of sociobehavioral forces. The goal of the new theory is to integrate theories … characteristics, and primordial sociobehavioral outcomes. The unified theory posits the operation of three sociobehavioral forces … distinctive identity and a distinctive magnitude of happiness. Thus, the theory enables systematic and parsimonious analysis of …

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On pitchforks and tomahawks

Pflüger, Michael (contributor); Südekum, Jens (contributor) - 2007

The core-periphery model by Krugman (1991) has two 'dramatic' implications: catastrophic agglomeration and locational hysteresis. We study this seminal model with CES instead of Cobb-Douglas upper tier preferences. This small generalization suffices to change these stark implications. For a wide...

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