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On the economic architecture of the workplace : repercussions of social comparisons amongst heterogeneous workers

Hyll, Walter; Stark, Oded - 2011

We analyze the impact on a firm's profits and optimal wage rates, and on the distribution of workers' earnings, when workers compare their earnings with those of co-workers. We consider a low-productivity worker who receives lower wage earnings than a high-productivity worker. When the...

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On the economic architecture of the workplace : repercussions of social comparisons among heterogeneous workers

Stark, Oded; Hyll, Walter - In: Journal of labor economics 29 (2011) 2, pp. 349-375

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Tales of migration without wage differentials : individual, family, and community contexts

Stark, Oded (contributor) - 2003

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Gender differentiation in risk-taking behavior : On the relative risk aversion of single men and single women

Stark, Oded; Zawojska, Ewa - 2015

We relate an observed difference between single men (SM) and single women (SW) in attitudes towards risk to the higher value assigned to social status by SM than by SW. In the marriage market, low status carries a harsher penalty for SM than for SW because when selecting a partner, the social...

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Socially gainful gender quotas

Stark, Oded; Hyll, Walter - 2014

We study the impact of gender quotas on the acquisition of human capital. We assume that individuals’ formation of … gender-specific quotas. In the absence of quotas, women consider their chances of getting top positions to be lower than menś …. Gender quotas discourage men who are less efficient in forming human capital, and encourage women who are more efficient in …

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Socially gainful gender quotas

Stark, Oded; Hyll, Walter - 2014

We study the impact of gender quotas on the acquisition of human capital. We assume that individuals' formation of … gender-specific quotas. In the absence of quotas, women consider their chances of getting top positions to be lower than men …. Gender quotas discourage men who are less efficient in forming human capital, and encourage women who are more efficient in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350520