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Intra-firm wage inequality and firm performance: first evidence from German linked employer-employee-data
Braakmann, Nils - 2008
Economic theory suggests both positive and negative relationships between intra-firm wage inequality and productivity … relative minor influence of intra-firm wage inequality on firm productivity. If anything, they provide some support for a view … suggesting that some inequality may be beneficial, while too much leads to a detrimental effect on productivity. …
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An empirical note on imitative obesity and a puzzling result
Braakmann, Nils - 2010
Using data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System for 2006, I test recent theoretical predictions on social comparisons influencing individual Body Mass Index (BMI). I find that in particular the average BMI of individuals in the same county-age-gender-cell as the respective...
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