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Potential, prizes and performance : testing tournament theory with professional tennis data

Sunde, Uwe - 2003

This paper tests two hypotheses from the theory of elimination tournaments: (i) that uneven tournaments, where the … contestants are ex ante heterogeneous, entail lower effort exertion; this is a prediction from agency theory that has not been … underlies any agency theory about elimination tournaments, and has been empirically tested in other contexts. The evidence …

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When Migrants Overstay Their Legal Welcome : A Proposed Solution to the Guest-Worker Program

Schiff, Maurice - 2004

A number of developed countries have implemented guest-worker programs in recent decades. Its basic feature is the temporary presence of the foreign guest-workers. The problem with such programs is that there is little to prevent these guest-workers from entering the illegal job market and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262144

Optimal immigration policy: permanent, guest-worker, or Mode IV?

Schiff, Maurice - 2007

Host countries have implemented permanent and guest-worker (GW) immigration programs in recent decades, while the temporary movement of service providers under Mode IV of the GATS is one of the issues being negotiated at the Doha Round of the WTO. Though decisions on what programs to adopt have...

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Optimal immigration policy: permanent, guest worker, or mode IV?

Schiff, Maurice - 2007

Immigration continues to be on the forefront of the policy debate on both sides of the Atlantic. A number of reforms of permanent and guest-worker (GW) immigration programs are being considered, and the temporary movement of service providers under Mode IV (GATS) is being negotiated at the Doha...

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Brain drain and its determinants: a major issue for small states

Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice - 2008

This paper examines the relationship between the brain drain and country size, as well as the extent of small states' overall loss of human capital. We find that small states are the main losers because they i) lose a larger proportion of their skilled labor force and ii) exhibit stronger...

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Life expectancy and economic growth: the role of the demographic transition

Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2009

the role of the econometric specification. We present a simple theory of the economic and demographic transition where … individuals' education and fertility decisions depend on their life expectancy. The theory predicts that before the demographic …

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Unobserved Bilateral Search on the Labor Market: A Theory-Based Correction for a Common Flaw in Empirical Matching Studies

Sunde, Uwe - 2002

This paper develops a model of equilibrium unemployment with (unobservable) endogenous on-the-job search and (partly unobservable) endogenous search behavior by firms. The model allows to analyze crowding-out of unemployed job seekers by endogenous on-the job search of employees, and the...

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Cross-sectional earnings risk and occupational sorting: the role of risk attitudes

Bonin, Holger; Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David - 2006

This paper investigates whether risk preferences explain how individuals are sorted into occupations with different earnings variability. We exploit data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, which contains a subjective assessment of willingness to take risks whose behavioral relevance has been...

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North-South Technology Diffusion, Regional Integration, and the Dynamics of the ?Natural Trading Partners? Hypothesis

Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - 2004

Based on static analysis, a number of studies argue that forming a RTA is more likely to raise welfare if member countries are ?natural trading partners,? while other studies claim the opposite. This paper considers the argument from a dynamic viewpoint by examining the impact of trade with...

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Are all democracies equally good? The role of interactions between political environment and inequality for rule of law

Sunde, Uwe; Cervellati, Matteo; Fortunato, Piergiuseppe - 2007

Using cross-country data, we find evidence for a significant negative interaction effect between democracy and inequality in determining the quality of growth-promoting institutions like rule of law. Democracy is associated with institutions of higher quality when inequality is lower.

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