Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 206
Cover Image
Two-Sided Learning, Labor Turnover and Worker Displacement
Pfann, Gerard A.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2001
We construct a general dynamic structural model of two-sided learning between a firm and its workers. We estimate an … American workers). The type of data that we use also generates information on the value of learning and on whether and how the … the increases in the firm?s value from learning about its workers? behavior and to infer the extent of biases in estimated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274098
Cover Image
Job Matching, Social Network and Word-of-Mouth Communication
Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Zenou, Yves - 2003
Workers are embedded within a network of social relationships and can communicate through word-of-mouth. They can find a job either directly or through personal contacts. From this micro scenario, we derive an aggregate matching function that has the standard properties but fails to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262763
Cover Image
Performance spillovers and social network in the workplace: evidence from rural and urban weavers in a Chinese textile firm
Kato, Takao; Shu, Pian - 2008
We provide some of the first rigorous evidence on performance spillovers and social network in the workplace. The data we use are rather extraordinary - weekly data for rejection rates (proportion of defective output) for all weavers in a firm during a 12 months (April 2003-March 2004) period,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268660
Cover Image
Labor mobility, social network effects, and innovative activity
Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans Christian; Rønde, Thomas - 2011
We study the mapping between labor mobility and industrial innovative activity for the population of R&D active Danish firms observed between 1999 and 2004. Our study documents a positive relationship between the number of workers who join a firm and the firm's innovative activity. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278617
Cover Image
Opinion Copulas, Homophily and Multimodal Marginals
Askitas, Nikos - 2017
An empirically founded and widely established driving force in opinion dynamics is homophily i.e. the tendency of … opinion clusters and polarisation. We investigate the role of heterogeneous priors in opinion formation, introduce the concept … of opinion copulas, argue that it is well supported by findings in Social Psychology and use it to show that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653481
Cover Image
Who Is Against Immigration? : A Cross-Country Investigation of Individual Attitudes toward Immigrants
Mayda, Anna Maria - 2004
This paper empirically analyzes both economic and non-economic determinants of attitudes toward immigrants, within and across countries. The two individual-level survey data sets used, covering a wide range of developed and developing countries, make it possible to test for interactive effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261871
Cover Image
A Nation-Wide Laboratory: Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioral Experiments into Representative Surveys
Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; von Rosenbladt, Bernhard; … - 2003
Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and self-selection biases. The usefulness of survey data is limited by measurement error and by the questionability of their behavioral relevance. Here we present a method integrating interactive experiments and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262013
Cover Image
The Changing Nature of Employment-Related Sexual Harassment: Evidence from the U.S. Federal Government (1978-1994)
Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2002
This paper examines the changing nature of views towards and reports of sexual harassment using unique data drawn from the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (USMSPB) of the U.S. Federal Government over the period from 1978-1994. Our results indicate that while federal government employees...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262501
Cover Image
Attitudes towards immigration: does economic self-interest matter?
Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Munch, Jakob Roland; Schroll, … - 2006
In this paper, we re-examine the role of economic self-interest in shaping people's attitudes towards immigration, using data from the European Social Survey 2002/2003. Compared to the existing literature, there are two main contributions of the present paper. First, we develop a more powerful...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267828
Cover Image
The intergenerational transmission of risk and trust attitudes
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2006
We investigate whether two crucial determinants of economic decision making willingness to take risks and willingness to trust other people are transmitted from parents to children. Our evidence is based on survey questions that ask about these attitudes directly, and are good measures in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268066