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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008990892
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The merger of populations, the incidence of marriages, and aggregate unhappiness
Stark, Oded; Rendl, Franz; Jakubek, Marcin - In: Journal of evolutionary economics : JEE 22 (2012) 2, pp. 331-344
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009532056
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The merger of populations, the incidence of marriages, and aggregate unhappiness
Stark, Oded; Rendl, Franz; Jakubek, Marcin - 2011
Let a society’s unhappiness be measured by the aggregate of the levels of relative deprivation of its members. When two societies of equal size, F and M, merge, unhappiness in the merged society is shown to be higher than the sum of the levels of unhappiness in the constituent societies when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009238652
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009273264
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The merger of populations, the incidence of marriages, and aggregate unhappiness
Stark, Oded; Rendl, Franz; Jakubek, Marcin - 2011
Let a society’s unhappiness be measured by the aggregate of the levels of relative deprivation of its members. When two societies of equal size, F and M, merge, unhappiness in the merged society is shown to be higher than the sum of the levels of unhappiness in the constituent societies when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009127070
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The Merger of Populations, the Incidence of Marriages, and Aggregate Unhappiness
Stark, Oded; Rendl, Franz; Jakubek, Marcin - 2011
Let a society’s unhappiness be measured by the aggregate of the levels of relative deprivation of its members. When two societies of equal size, F and M, merge, unhappiness in the merged society is shown to be higher than the sum of the levels of unhappiness in the constituent societies when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014179243
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Is population growth conducive to the sustainability of cooperation?
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - In: Economics and human biology 9 (2011) 4, pp. 443-451
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523517
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Is population growth conducive to the sustainability of cooperation? Oded Stark and Marcin Jakubek
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 2011
This paper asks whether population growth is conducive to the sustainability of cooperation. A simple model is … of the sustainability of cooperation of the appearance of the mutants in a population that is not growing, and in one … that is growing. It is shown that the ex-ante probability of sustaining the cooperation strategy is higher for a community …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009238658
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Cooperation and wealth
Stark, Oded - 2002
We calculate the equilibrium fraction of cooperators in a population in which payoffs accrue from playing a single-shot prisoner's dilemma game. Individuals who are hardwired as cooperators or defectors are randomly matched into pairs, and cooperators are able to perfectly find out the type of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009725484
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Is population growth conducive to the sustainability of cooperation?
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 2011
This paper asks whether population growth is conducive to the sustainability of cooperation. A simple model is … of the sustainability of cooperation of the appearance of the mutants in a population that is not growing, and in one … that is growing. It is shown that the ex-ante probability of sustaining the cooperation strategy is higher for a community …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009233355