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Motivational Goal Bracketing with Non-Rational Goals

Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia - 2021

We provide a tractable model of motivational goal bracketing by a present-biased individual, extending previous work to show that the main insights from models with rational goals carry over to a setting with non-rational goals. Goals motivate because they serve as reference points that make...

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Modellierung und Schätzung hedonischer Elementarpreisindizes

Beer, Michael - In: Wirtschaft und Statistik : WISTA (2008) 4, pp. 356-362

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"The Double Dividend of Training" - Labor Market Effects of Work-Related Continuous Education in Switzerland

Denzler, Stefan; Ruhose, Jens; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022

Switzerland. Using a novel dataset that links official census data on adult education to longitudinal register data on labor …

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Unions, Dynamism, and Economic Performance

Hirsch, Barry T. - 2010

This paper explores the relationship between economic performance and US unionism, focusing first on what we do and do not know based on empirical research handicapped by limited data on establishment and firm level collective bargaining coverage. Evidence on the relationship of unions with...

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Worker Cooperatives and Democratic Governance

Pencavel, John H. - 2012

A worker co-operative is a firm that is owned and managed by those who work in it. This paper provides a selective review of research in economics on worker cooperatives. It concentrates on the volatility of earnings and employment in the co-ops compared with conventional capitalist firms; on...

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Concentrating on the Fall of the Labor Share

Autor, David H. - 2017

The recent fall of labor's share of GDP in numerous countries is well-documented, but its causes are poorly understood. We sketch a "superstar firm" model where industries are increasingly characterized by "winner take most" competition, leading a small number of highly profitable (and low labor...

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The Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms

Autor, David H. - 2017

The fall of labor's share of GDP in the United States and many other countries in recent decades is well documented but its causes remain uncertain. Existing empirical assessments of trends in labor's share typically have relied on industry or macro data, obscuring heterogeneity among firms. In...

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Undocumented Worker Employment and Firm Survival

Brown, J. David - 2009

Do firms employing undocumented workers have a competitive advantage? Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, this paper investigates the incidence of undocumented worker employment across firms and how it affects firm survival. Firms are found to engage in herding behavior, being...

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Workers, Firms and Life-Cycle Wage Dynamics

Bingley, Paul - 2018

Studies of individual wage dynamics typically ignore firm heterogeneity, whereas decompositions of earnings into worker and firm effects abstract from life-cycle considerations. We study firm effects in individual wage dynamics using administrative data on the population of Italian employers and...

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Market Characteristics, Intra-Firm Coordination, and the Choice of Human Resource Management Systems : Evidence from New Japanese Data

Kato, Takao; Owan, Hideo - 2021

in firms with joint labor-management committees. We also confirm implications from our theory that firms in more … coordination within the organization and the structure of organization and bundling of HRMPs (Human Resource Management Practices … complementarity involving task coordination modes, HRMPs, training and hiring, and management strategies, and illustrates how such …

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