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Worker self-selection and the profits from cooperation
Kosfeld, Michael (contributor);  … - 2008
different firms and firms employing cooperative workers make strictly positive profits. Profit differences across firms persist …
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Rent-sharing and the cyclicality of wage differentials
Du Caju, Philip (contributor); Rycx, François (contributor) - 2008
This paper investigates inter-industry wage differentials in Belgium, taking advantage of access to a unique matched employer-employee data set covering all the years from 1999 to 2005. Findings show the existence of large wage differentials among workers with the same observed characteristics...
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On the relevance and composition of gifts within the firm : evidence from field experiments
Bellemare, Charles; Shearer, Bruce S. - 2009
this firm, increasing in importance when the workers' outside alternatives deteriorate. Profit-maximizing gifts would …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879373
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Middlemen, non-profits, and poverty
Chau, Nancy H.; Goto, Hideaki; Kanbur, Ravi - 2009
In many markets in developing countries, especially in remote areas, middlemen are thought to earn excessive profits. Non-profits come in to counter what is seen as middlemen's market power, and rich country consumers pay a "fair-trade" premium for products marketed by such non-profits. This...
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Winning big but feeling no better? : the effect of lottery prizes on physical and mental health
Apouey, Bénédicte; Clark, Andrew E. - 2010
We use British panel data to determine the exogenous impact of income on a number of individual health outcomes: general health status, mental health, physical health problems, and health behaviors (drinking and smoking). Lottery winnings allow us to make causal statements regarding the effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003937887
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Decomposing excess returns in stochastic linear models
Lin, Carl - 2011
We present a theorem helpful in estimating the mean and variance of a linear function with arbitrary multivariate randomness in its coefficients and variables. We derive a generalized decomposition result from two random linear functions in which the result can be applied to most models using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009524390
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Chutes and ladders : dual tracks and the motherhood dip
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Lacuesta, Aitor; … - 2010
Using rich panel data recently available from Spanish Social Security records, we find that a negative motherhood earnings differential of 2.3 log points remains even after controlling for both individual- and firm-level unobserved heterogeneity. The analysis of the mothers and childless women's...
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The radical innovation investment decision refined
Bilkic, Natasa; Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - 2013
attractive for private entrepreneurs. -- radical innovation ; innovation ; entrepreneurship ; investment ; R&D ; risk ; real …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009729702
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It's where you work : increases in earnings dispersion across establishments and individuals in the US
Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Davis, James C.; Freeman, … - 2014
This paper links data on establishments and individuals to analyze the role of establishments in the increase in inequality that has become a central topic in economic analysis and policy debate. It decomposes changes in the variance of log earnings among individuals into the part due to changes...
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Using firm optimization to evaluate and estimate returns to scale
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy (contributor) - 2008
often inconsistent with profit maximization or imply implausibly large profits. The puzzle arises because popular estimators … the restrictions imposed by profit maximization (cost minimization) so that estimators are inconsistent or poorly … rather than production functions and demonstrates that the profit share in revenue is a robust non-parametric economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003656928