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Skills, Signals, and Employability : An Experimental Investigation
Piopiunik, Marc - 2018
As skills of labor-market entrants are usually not directly observed by employers, individuals acquire skill signals. To study which signals are valued by employers, we simultaneously and independently randomize a broad range of skill signals on pairs of resumes of fictitious applicants among...
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Overconfidence is a Social Signaling Bias
Burks, Stephen V. - 2010
relatively. We test three different theories about observed relative overconfidence. The first theory notes that simple … on 1,016 individuals' relative ability judgments about two cognitive tests rejects the Bayesian model. The second theory … might make this belief worse. Our data also reject this prediction. The third theory is that overconfidence is induced by …
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Inefficient hiring in entry-level labor markets
Pallais, Amanda - In: The American economic review 104 (2014) 11, pp. 3565-3599
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Neighborhood Signaling Effects, Commuting Time, and Employment : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Carlsson, Magnus - 2018
The question of whether and how living in a deprived neighborhood affects the labor market outcomes of its residents has been a subject of great interest for both policy makers and researchers. Despite this interest, empirical evidence of causal neighborhood effects on labor market outcomes is...
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Can Contracts Signal Social Norms? Experimental Evidence
Danilov, Anasatsia - 2013
We investigate whether incentive schemes signal social norms and thus affect behavior beyond their direct economic consequences. A principal-agent experiment is studied in which prior to contract choice principals are informed about past actions of other agents and thus have more information...
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The Timing of Discretionary Bonuses : Effort, Signals, and Reciprocity
Boosey, Luke - 2018
In a real-effort experiment, we investigate how the timing of discretionary bonuses affects the relationship between workers and managers. Average output is substantially higher if bonuses are paid in the middle rather than upfront or at the end, as workers increase first-period output to signal...
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Limited attention and income distribution
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Mullainathan, Sendhil - In: The American economic review 98 (2008) 2, pp. 489-493
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The impact of group membership on cooperation and norm enforcement : evidence using random assignment tom real social groups
Goette, Lorenz; Huffman, David; Meier, Stephan - In: The American economic review 96 (2006) 2, pp. 212-216
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Group affiliation and altruistic norm enforcement
Bernhard, Helen; Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - In: The American economic review 96 (2006) 2, pp. 217-221
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Taxes and employment subsidies in optimal redistribution programs
Beaudry, Paul; Blackorby, Charles; Szalay, Dezsö - In: The American economic review 99 (2009) 1, pp. 216-242
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