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Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2011

concludes with an empirical application to consumer price inflation in Germany, France and Italy, and re-examines the extent to …

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Unemployment Accounts and Employment Incentives

Brown, Alessio J.G; Orszag, J. Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 2008

We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment accounts (UA) system. Under the UA system, employed people are required to make ongoing contributions to their UAs and the balances in these accounts are available to them during...

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The Contribution of Managers to Organizational Success : Evidence from German Soccer

Hentschel, Sandra - 2014

We study the impact of managers on the success of professional soccer teams using data from the German "Bundesliga". We … evaluate the performance impact of individual managers by estimating regression models that include both team and manager fixed … effects, where we are exploiting the high turnover of managers between teams to disentangle the managers' contributions. We …

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The Returns to Seniority in France (and Why are They Lower than in the United States?)

Beffy, Magali; Buchinsky, Moshe; Fougère, Denis; … - 2021

We estimate a model of the joint participation and mobility along with the individuals' wage formation in France. Our … using state of the art bayesian methods employing a long panel (1976-1995) for France. Our results clearly show that returns … rationale for this phenomenon. Specifically, in a low-mobility country such as France, there is little gain in compensating …

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Estimating Gender Differences in Access to Jobs

Gobillon, Laurent - 2012

This paper proposes a new measure of gender differences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure is the probability ratio of getting a job for females and males at each rank of the wage ladder. We derive a non-parametric estimator of this access measure and estimate it for...

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Rational Inattention and Employer Learning

Habermalz, Steffen - 2010

learning model with the theory of rational inattention introduced by Sims (2006). In the model firms optimally allocate …

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Employer Learning and the 'Importance' of Skills

Light, Audrey - 2012

We ask whether the role of employer learning in the wage-setting process depends on skill type and skill importance to productivity. Combining data from the NLSY79 with O*NET data, we use Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery scores to measure seven distinct types of pre-market skills that...

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Mincer Equation, Power Law of Learning, and Efficient Education Policy

Richter, Wolfram F. - 2013

The basis for the empirical research on earnings determination is the Mincer equation. Individuals are assumed to make schooling decisions by maximizing earnings. Leisure costs of schooling and labour supply are neglected which has some empirically implausible implications. This paper shows a...

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Information and Learning in Oligopoly : An Experiment

Bigoni, Maria - 2013

This paper presents an experiment on learning in repeated games, which complements the analysis of players' actual choices with data on the information acquisition process they follow. Subjects play a repeated Cournot oligopoly, with limited a priori information. The econometrics hinges on a...

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Confidence in Knowledge or Confidence in the Ability to Learn : an Experiment on the Causal Effects of Beliefs on Motivation

Fischer, Mira - 2018

Previous research has shown that feedback about past performance has ambiguous effects on subsequent performance. We argue that feedback affects beliefs in different dimensions – namely beliefs about the level of human capital and beliefs about the ability to learn – and this may explain...

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