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Occupational mismatch and moonlighting among Spanish physicians: do couples matter?
Dolado, Juan José; Felgueroso, Florentino - 2008
There are relevant gender differences in the labour-market status of health sciences graduates in Spain: (i) female … physicians have lower participation rates than male physicians plus they are subject to higher occupational mismatch, and (ii …) moonlighting is more frequent among male physicians. In this paper we investigate whether such differences are related to the …
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Does immigration raise natives' income? National and regional evidence from Spain
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; de la Rica, Sara - 2008
-receiving nations. Spain is no exception following the rapid increase in immigrant flows experienced over the past decade. We assess the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276393
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Complements or substitutes? Task specialization by gender and nativity in Spain
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; de la Rica, Sara - 2009
of immigration on native workers. Instead, using data from Spain, where the immigrant population has risen from 4 percent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276403
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Wage effects of non-wage labour costs
Plá, María Cervini; Ramos, Xavier; Silva, José Ignacio - 2010
We study short- and long-term wage effects of two important elements of non-wage labour costs: firing costs and payroll taxes. We exploit a reform that introduced substantial reduction in these two provisions for unemployed workers aged less than thirty and over forty five years. Theoretical...
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The sociology of groups and the economics of incentives: theory and evidence on compensation systems
Encinosa, William E.; Gaynor, Martin; Rebitzer, James B. - 2005
When working together, people engage in non-contractual and informal interactions that constitute the sociology of the group. We use behavioral models and a unique survey of medical groups to analyze how group sociology influences physician incentive pay and behavior. We conclude that informal...
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Priming cooperation in social dilemma games
Drouvelis, Michalis; Metcalfe, Robert; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2010
Research on public goods mainly focuses its attention on the ability of incentives, beliefs and group structure to affect behaviour in social dilemma interactions. This paper investigates the pure effects of a rather subtle mechanism on social preferences in a one-shot linear public good game....
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An economic analysis of identity and career choice
Knoth Humlum, Maria; Kleinjans, Kristin J.; Skyt … - 2007
Standard economic models which focus on pecuniary payoffs cannot explain why there are highly able individuals who choose careers with low pecuniary returns. Therefore, financial incentives are unlikely to be effective in influencing career choices of these individuals. Based on Akerlof and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268181
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Social interactions and the salience of social identity
McLeish, Kendra N.; Oxoby, Robert J. - 2008
In this paper, we explore the effect of identity salience on behavior in a simple social interaction. Specifically, we compare behavior in a ultimatum game across three treatments: priming subjects with a shared identity, priming subjects with an identity distinct from those with whom they will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268832
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Self-selection in migration and returns to unobservable skills
Dostie, Benoît; Léger, Pierre Thomas - 2006
patterns of Canadian physicians. We choose this particular group for several reasons including the fact that they are paid on a …-productivity physicians (based on unobservables) are more likely to migrate to provinces where the productivity premium is greater, while low …-productivity physicians are more likely to migrate to areas where the productivity premium is lower. These results are consistent with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267447
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Polarisation and health
Blanco Pérez, Cristina; Ramos, Xavier - 2008
, and which have been traditionally proxied by inequality. We test our premises with panel data for Spain. Results show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268538