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employer incentives may stimulate preventive and reintegration activities by firms, thereby improving the employment … reforms that were implemented in the Netherlands have helped or hindered employment opportunities of workers with health … problems or disability. An important component of the Dutch reforms was to enhance employer incentives, which was done by …
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This paper investigates the impact of financial incentives on early retirement behaviour for high and low wage earners … wage earners are, as predicted by the model, more sensitive to financial incentives. This implies that low wage earners …
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We study the interaction between competitive markets that produce large but unequally distributed welfare gains and elections through which the poor majority can redistribute income away from the rich minority. In our simple laboratory democracy, subjects first earn their income by trading in a...
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This paper investigates the effects of Spain's large recent immigration wave on the labor supply of highly skilled native women. We hypothesize that female immigration led to an increase in the supply of affordable household services, such as housekeeping and child or elderly care. As a result,...
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This paper is concerned with empirical and theoretical basis of the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH). The paper begins with an overview of the statistical properties of asset returns at different frequencies (daily, weekly and monthly), and considers the evidence on return predictability, risk...
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contribute to finance unemployment benefits would reduce formal employment …
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We present evidence on social incentives in the workplace, namely on whether workers' behavior is affected by the … are paid piece rates based on individual productivity, social incentives can be quantified in monetary terms and are such … productivity by 10%. The distribution of worker ability is such that the net effect of social incentives on the firm's aggregate …
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endogenized. We show that graduate taxes reduce work incentives but provide incentives to improve teaching quality. Yet if tax …
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This paper studies the interplay between economic incentives and social norms in firms. We introduce a general … also show how social norms can induce multiplicity of equilibria and how steeper economic incentives can reduce effort …
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in a simple model that the perceived degree of past differentiation affects future incentives. We then study the impact …
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