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Gambling Habits and Probability Judgements in a Bayesian Task Environment

Dickinson, David L.; Reid, Parker - 2023

information sources. Exploratory analysis, however, revealed interesting effects related to self-reported gambling frequency …-reported gambling frequency was stronger for females. Decision modeling found a decreased weight placed on new evidence (over base rate … frequency of gambling to worse performance in the critical probability assessment skills that should benefit gambling success (i …

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Career Lotto : Labor Supply in Winner-Take-All Markets

Grove, Wayne A. - 2019

Are people prone to selecting occupations with highly skewed income distributions despite minuscule chances of success? Assembling a comprehensive pool of potential teenage entrants into professional tennis (a typical winner-take-all market), we construct objective measures of relative ability...

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Buying Lottery Tickets for Foreign Workers : Search Cost Externalities Induced by H-1b Policy

Sharma, Rishi; Sparber, Chad - 2021

The H-1B program allows firms in the United States to temporarily hire high-skilled foreign citizens. H-1B workers are highly concentrated among a small number of firms. We develop a theoretical model demonstrating that this phenomenon is an artifact of policy design: When the government...

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Minimum Wages, Productivity, and Reallocation

Haelbig, Mirja; Mertens, Matthias; Müller, Steffen - 2023

We study the productivity effect of the German national minimum wage by applying administrative firm data. At the firm … level, we confirm positive effects on wages and negative employment effects and document higher productivity even net of … minimum wage increased aggregate productivity in manufacturing. We do not find that employment reallocation across firms …

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Technological Change, Firm Heterogeneity and Wage Inequality

Cortes, Guido Matias; Lerche, Adrian; Schönberg, Uta; … - 2023

We argue that skill-biased technological change not only affects wage gaps between skill groups, but also increases wage inequality within skill groups, across workers in different workplaces. Building on a heterogeneous firm framework with labor market frictions, we show that an industry-wide...

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Foreign Direct Investment and Knowledge Diffusion in Poor Locations

Abebe, Girum - 2020

. Spillovers from FDI are identified by comparing changes in total factor productivity (TFP) among domestic plants in districts …

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Spillovers and Substitutability in Production

Papps, Kerry L. - 2019

Can the existence of positive productivity spillovers between co-workers be explained by the presence of …

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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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Financial Constraints and Innovation : Why Poor Countries Don't Catch Up

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2015

This paper examines micro-level channels of how financial development can affect macroeconomic outcomes like the level of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey...

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Birthplace Diversity and Productivity Spill-Overs in Firms

Böheim, René - 2014

We determine workforce composition and wages in firms in the presence of productivity spill-overs between co …

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