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and women, from Google's German language book corpus. These additional series are broadly consistent with the evolution of …
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We present a model of wage contract violation that implies a possibility of multiple equilibria in the level of arrears. Positive feedback arises because each employer's arrears affect the costs of late payment faced by other employers operating in the same labor market, resulting in a network...
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We examine how group-specific differences in reservation wage, arising due to asymmetries in social entitlements, impact on distribution via the joint determination of class conflict between workers and employers, and 'ethnic' conflict among workers. We model a two-dimensional contest, where two...
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Although physicians are often expected to be gatekeepers to health insurance benefits such as paid sick leave, research indicates a substantial reluctance to reject patient requests for sickness certificates. We show that private information on the patient's part creates a conflict between the...
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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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This paper studies how targeted cash transfers to women affect their empowerment. We use a novel identification … strategy to measure women's willingness to pay to receive cash transfers instead of their partner receiving it. We apply this … among women living in poor households in urban Macedonia. We match experimental data with a unique policy intervention (CCT …
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mother; (vi) shifts in social norms governing premarital sex and married women's roles in the labor market. Macroeconomic …
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composition, in part because only aggregate voting data was available. We exploit the existence of separate counts for women and … strategic voting and men previously represented in part women's vote due to negotiation within the household. We show evidence …
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The supply of women into senior management has changed little despite well-intentioned efforts. We argue that the … biggest effect is from supply-side factors that inhibit females' decision to enter competitions: Women are under …-confident about winning, men are over-confident; women are more risk averse than men in some settings; and, most importantly, women …
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women in 1990 underestimated the true, selection-corrected gap, i.e., the gap we would have expected to see had all of these … women been employed in 1990. In this paper, we use the NLSY97 to update his analysis. The observed median log wage gap … considerable extent by changes in the distribution of educational attainment across young white and black women. …
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