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competition are all found to be important determinants of long-run firm values, firm turnover, and market structure. Estimates for …
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The employment structure of India's organised manufacturing sector has undergone substantial changes over the last decade with a steep rise in the use of contract workers in place of directly hired workers. Much of the existing literature has attributed the widespread use of contract labour to...
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, wages, and the inequality of wages within firms. While the average amount spent on employer-provided training is low in … IT-courses. We find a significant relationship between training and wages, the coefficient is about 0.05. We find no … significant effect of training on the inequality of wages within firms. …
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This paper studies how wages respond to a sudden change in employer concentration. It exploits a reform that …, elasticities of wages with respect to labor market concentration are estimated to be between -0.02 and -0.05. The empirical … paper adds to a growing literature that finds that market concentration matters for workers' wages, in a context where labor …
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both increased competition and the enactment of equal treatment laws reduce the gender wage gap. …
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academia have been partially explained by "competitive pressures", which suggests a link between competition and cheating. In … no overall sex difference in cheating. However, the effect of competition on women's cheating behavior is entirely due to … of an individual to conduct a particular task and not sex that crucially affects the reaction to competition. Poor …
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duplication of research. An increase in the intensity of competition among firms leads to an increase in the variety of developed …
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competition among firms leads to an increase in the variety of developed projects and a decrease in the amount of duplication of …
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We show that professional soccer players exhibit reference-dependent behavior during matches. Controlling for the state of the match and for unobserved heterogeneity, we show on a minute-by-minute basis that a player breaches the rules of the game, measured by the referee's assignment of cards,...
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Several recent papers argue that contracts provide reference points that affect ex post behavior. We test this hypothesis in a canonical buyer-seller relationship with renegotiation. Our paper provides causal experimental evidence that an initial contract has a highly significant and...
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