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Fair cake-cutting in practice
Kyropoulou, Maria; Ortega, Josué; Segal-Halevi, Erel - 2018
Using a lab experiment, we investigate the real-life performance of envy-free and proportional cake-cutting procedures … with respect to fairness and preference manipulation. We nd that envy-free procedures, in particular Selfridge-Conway, are … manipulate them. Our results support the practical use of the celebrated Selfridge-Conway procedure, and more generally, of envy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011946257
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Job and Worker Reallocation in German Establishments: The Role of Employers? Wage Policies and Labour Market Institutions
Guertzgen, Nicole - 2007
Using a large linked employer-employee data set, this paper studies the relationship between job reallocation, worker reallocation and the flexibility of wages in western German manufacturing. Using the plant-specific residual wage dispersion as a proxy for wage flexibility, we find that more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297984
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Job and Worker Reallocation in German Establishments: The Role of Employers? Wage Policies and Labour Market Institutions
Guertzgen, Nicole - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007
Using a large linked employer-employee data set, this paper studies the relationship between job reallocation, worker reallocation and the flexibility of wages in western German manufacturing. Using the plant-specific residual wage dispersion as a proxy for wage flexibility, we find that more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097630
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A Simple Test of the Efficiency Wage Hypothesis Revisited
Dastani, Parsis; Laisney, François; Vouillaume, Sophie - 1997
Gerlach and Stephan (1994) proposed a test based on the idea that the wage premium, the part of the wage which is not explained by the stock of human capital, should help predict variables such as career expectations (quit, change occupation, leave the labour force) and some job characteristics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299630
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A Simple Test of the Efficiency Wage Hypothesis Revisited
Dastani, Parsis; Laisney, François; Vouillaume, Sophie - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1997
Gerlach and Stephan (1994) proposed a test based on the idea that the wage premium, the part of the wage which is not explained by the stock of human capital, should help predict variables such as career expectations (quit, change occupation, leave the labour force) and some job characteristics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008567571
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Training, Mobility, and Wages: Specific Versus General Human Capital
Garloff, Alfred; Kuckulenz, Anja - 2005
This paper considers training, mobility decisions and wages together to test for the specificity of human capital contained in continuing training courses. We empirically analyse the relationship between training, mobility and wages in two ways. First, we examine the correlation between training...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297508
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Training, Mobility, and Wages: Specific Versus General Human Capital
Garloff, Alfred; Kuckulenz, Anja - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005
This paper considers training, mobility decisions and wages together to test for the specificity of human capital contained in continuing training courses. We empirically analyse the relationship between training, mobility and wages in two ways. First, we examine the correlation between training...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097723
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Gender differences in German wage mobility
Aretz, Bodo - 2013
This paper analyzes the evolution of wage inequality and wage mobility separately for men and women in West and East Germany over the last four decades. Using a large administrative data set which covers the years 1975 to 2008, I find that wage inequality increased and wage mobility decreased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010311048
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Gender differences in German wage mobility
Aretz, Bodo - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
This paper analyzes the evolution of wage inequality and wage mobility separately for men and women in West and East Germany over the last four decades. Using a large administrative data set which covers the years 1975 to 2008, I find that wage inequality increased and wage mobility decreased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957601
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A Test of the 'Krugman Hypothesis' for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003
Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment (with rather stable wage inequality) have led to a popular view in the economics profession that these two phenomena are related to negative relative demand shocks against the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297281