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Bribes vs. Taxes : Market Structure and Incentives
Amodio, Francesco - 2018
Firms in developing countries often avoid paying taxes by making informal payments to tax officials. These bribes may raise the cost of operating a business, and the price charged to consumers. To decrease these costs, we designed a feedback incentive scheme for business tax inspectors that...
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The Impact of Scoring Weights on Price and Quality Outcomes : An Application to the Procurement of Welfare-to-Work Contracts
Koning, Pierre - 2013
This paper assesses the effects of changes in scoring weights in auctions, using a unique sample of biddings of private Welfare-to-Work (WTW) organizations to reintegrate groups of unemployed and disabled workers. WTW-organizations did not only bid on prices, but also received points for three...
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Charters Without Lotteries : Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston
Abdulkadiroglu, Atila - 2015
Lottery estimates suggest oversubscribed urban charter schools boost student achievement markedly. But these estimates needn't capture treatment effects for students who haven't applied to charter schools or for students attending charters for which demand is weak. This paper reports estimates...
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Paintings and Numbers : An Econometric Investigation of Sales Rates, Prices and Returns in Latin American Art Auctions
Campos, Nauro F. - 2020
in predicting whether or not an artwork sells at auction, (3) there is little supporting evidence for the widespread …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012705816
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The Importance of Two-Sided Heterogeneity for the Cyclicality of Labour Market Dynamics
Bachmann, Ronald - 2010
Using administrative data on individual workers' employment history and firms, we investigate the cyclicality of worker flows on the German labour market. Focusing on heterogeneities on both sides of the labour market, we find that small firms hire mainly unemployed workers, and that they do so...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135186
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Panel Data Estimates of the Production Function and Product and Labor Market Imperfections
Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2010
Consistent with two models of imperfect competition in the labor market, the efficient bargaining model and the monopsony model, we provide two extensions of a microeconomic version of Hall's framework for estimating price-cost margins. We show that both product and labor market imperfections...
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Separations, Sorting and Cyclical Unemployment
Mueller, Andreas I. - 2012
-finding rates. A search-matching model with endogenous separations and worker heterogeneity in terms of ability has difficulty in …
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An Incentive Theory of Matching
Brown, Alessio J.G. - 2009
This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are … quit decisions. This approach obviates the need for a matching function. On this theoretical basis, we argue that the … matching function is vulnerable to the Lucas critique. Our calibrated model for the U.S. economy can account for important …
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Excess Turnover and Employment Growth : Firm and Match Heterogeneity
Centeno, Mário - 2009
Portuguese firms engage in intense reallocation, most employers simultaneously hire and separate from workers, resulting in a large heterogeneity of flows and excess turnover. Large and older firms have lower flows, but high excess turnover rates. In small firms, hires and separations move...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153497
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Employment Fluctuations with Downward Wage Rigidity : The Role of Moral Hazard
Costain, James S. - 2009
This paper studies the cyclical dynamics of Mortensen and Pissarides' (1994) model of job creation and destruction when workers' effort is not perfectly observable, as in Shapiro and Stiglitz (1984). An occasionally-binding no-shirking constraint truncates the real wage distribution from below,...
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