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Gender Differences in Wage Expectations : Sorting, Children, and Negotiation Styles

Kießling, Lukas - 2019

This paper presents evidence from a large-scale study on gender differences in expected wages before labor market entry …. Based on data for over 15,000 students, we document a significant and large gender gap in wage expectations that closely … and negotiation styles affect the gender gap in wage expectations much more than prospective child-related labor force …

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Firm Performance and Managerial Turnover : The Case of Ukraine

Muravyev, Alexander - 2009

The paper studies whether and how CEO turnover in Ukrainian firms is related to their performance. Based on a novel dataset covering Ukrainian joint stock companies in 2002-2006, the paper finds statistically significant negative association between the past performance of firms measured by...

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Should Employment Authorities Worry About Mergers and Acquisitions?

Margolis, David N. - 2006

This paper considers the role mergers and acquisitions have on employment. First, it considers the importance of different aspects of compensation policy and human resource management practices for distinguishing acquired and acquiring firms. Second, it examines which individuals from which...

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Size of Training Firms : The Role of Firms, Luck, and Ability in Young Workers' Careers

Müller, Steffen - 2016

This paper analyzes how life-cycle unemployment of former apprentices depends on the size of the training firm. We start from the hypotheses that the size of training firms reduces long-run cumulated unemployment exposure, e.g. via differences in training quality and in the availability of...

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How Do Informal Agreements and Renegotiation Shape Contractual Reference Points?

Fehr, Ernst - 2011

Previous experimental work provides encouraging support for some of the central assumptions underlying Hart and Moore (2008)'s theory of contractual reference points. However, existing studies ignore realistic aspects of trading relationships such as informal agreements and ex post...

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Self-Serving Use of Equity Rules in Bargaining with Asymmetric Outside Options

Hennig‐Schmidt, Heike - 2013

We experimentally investigate multiple notions of equity in ultimatum bargaining with asymmetric outside options. Building on the generalized equity principle formulated by Selten (1978), we derive three different equity rules that can explain 43% of all offers. Our within-subject design further...

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Mandated Versus Negotiated Severance Pay

Auray, Stéphane - 2014

While most of the literature on employment protection has focused on government-mandated severance pay, it has recently been documented that a substantial share of severance payments derives from private contracts or collective agreements. This paper studies the determination of these payments....

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Reciprocal Climate Negotiators

Nyborg, Karine - 2015

International climate negotiations have been troubled by mutual mistrust. At the same time, a hope seems to prevail …

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Women's Empowerment, the Gender Gap in Desired Fertility, and Fertility Outcomes in Developing Countries

Doepke, Matthias - 2018

We document evidence on preferences for childbearing in developing countries. Across countries, men usually desire larger families than women do. Within countries, we find wide dispersion in spouses' desired fertility: there are many couples whose ideal family size differs by five children or...

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Moderating Political Extremism : Single Round vs Runoff Elections Under Plurality Rule

Bordignon, Massimo - 2013

We compare single round vs runoff elections under plurality rule, allowing for partly endogenous party formation. Under runoff elections, the number of political candidates is larger, but the influence of extremist voters on equilibrium policy and hence policy volatility are smaller, because the...

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