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We study a recent recruitment drive for public sector positions in Mexico. Different salaries were announced randomly … across recruitment sites, and job offers were subsequently randomized. Screening relied on exams designed to measure … the recruitment gap in worse municipalities …
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This paper examines performance in a tournament setting with different levels of inequality in rewards and different provision of information about individual's skill at the task prior to the tournament. We find that that total tournament output depends on inequality according to an inverse U...
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, employee share ownership, and stock options--and their link to productivity. It shows that shared capitalism has grown in the … productivity, but its impact is largest when firms combine it with other forms of shared capitalist pay and modes of organization …
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In this paper we study the role of covenants in franchise contracts that restrict the recruitment and hiring of …
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productivity of new workers, they may choose to use easily observable characteristics such as years of education to 'statistically … productivity and less dependent on easily observable characteristics or credentials that predict productivity. Consider a wage … productivity and the interaction between experience and a variable that firms can easily observe, such as years of education. We …
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We present and experimentally test a mechanism that provides a simple, natural, low cost, and realistic solution to the problem of compliance with socially determined efficient actions, such as contributing to a public good. We note that small self-governing organizations often place enforcement...
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studying the effects of local job creation efforts. In the model, workers are perfectly mobile and the productivity of worker …-firm matches may vary across metropolitan areas. In equilibrium, higher local productivity results in higher nominal wages, higher … productivity level …
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the wage paid to their employees as a function of tenure, productivity and other observables. However, firms cannot commit …
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conform to theory. We survey some literature in this area and suggest areas for further research …
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length as a signal of unobserved productivity and recognize that this signal is less informative in weak labor markets …
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