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Optimizing Incentive Plan Design : A Case Study

Levenson, Alec Robert - 2011

We study effects of a firm's attempt to optimize an existing incentive scheme to increase sales growth for direct store delivery workers. Before optimization workers reported Ratchet Effects that lowered productivity. The altered incentive plan offered higher compensation for increased sales...

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Marketmaking Middlemen

Gautier, Pieter - 2016

This paper develops a model in which market structure is determined endogenously by the choice of intermediation mode. We consider two representative business modes of intermediation that are widely used in real-life markets: one is a middleman mode where an intermediary holds inventories which...

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Equilibrium Allele Distribution in Trading Populations

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2006

This paper derives the conditions under which fitness-reducing alleles can survive in a longrun stationary equilibrium for a trading population, extending the results in Saint-Paul (2002) for arbitrary systems of sexual reproduction

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The Legacies of Slavery in and Out of Africa

Bertocchi, Graziella - 2015

The slave trades out of Africa represent one of the most significant forced migration experiences in history. In this paper I illustrate their long-term consequences. I first consider the influence of the slave trade on the "sending" countries in Africa, with attention to their economic,...

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Does Joining the EU Make You Happy? Evidence from Bulgaria and Romania

Nikolova, Milena - 2016

We examine the effect of joining the European Union on individual life satisfaction in Bulgaria and Romania in the … context of the 2007 EU enlargement. Although EU membership is among the most important events in Bulgaria and Romania's modern … life satisfaction in Bulgaria and had a positive but statistically insignificant effect in Romania. One explanation is that …

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International Migration, Return Migration, and Their Effects : A Comprehensive Review on the Romanian Case

Anghel, Remus Gabriel - 2017

Romanian migration is today one of the biggest, complex, and dynamic migration to Western Europe. This paper is a comprehensive review of the existing literature that aims at providing a full picture of this dynamic migratory process and discusses its far-reaching consequences. It first presents...

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Should I Stay or Should I Go? Romanian Migrants During Transition and Enlargements

Andrén, Daniela - 2014

, the aim of this paper is to analyze to what extent Romania's accession to the EU in 2007 has added new features to the … develop adjustment strategies in their destination countries. Romania's accession to the EU in 2007 did not generally change …

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Environmental Regulation and Competitiveness : Evidence from Romania

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2010

estimates a gravity model to establish whether the implementation of more stringent regulations in Romania has indeed affected …

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The Selection of Migrants and Returnees in Romania : Evidence and Long-Run Implications

Ambrosini, William - 2012

Romania relatively high rates of temporary migration might have positive long-run effects on average skills and wages …

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The Impact of an Unexpected Wage Cut on Corruption : Evidence from a 'Xeroxed' Exam

Borcan, Oana - 2012

This paper aims to understand how corruption responds to financial incentives and, in particular, it is an attempt to identify the causal impact of a wage loss on the prevalence of corruption in the education sector. Specifically, we exploit the unexpected wage cut in May 2010 that affected all...

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