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Relative Wage Positions and Quit Behavior:New Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
Pfeifer, Christian; Schneck, Stefan - Universität <Hannover> / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche … - 2010
We use a large linked employer-employee data set to analyze the importance of relativewage positions in the context of individual quit decisions as an inverse measure of jobsatisfaction. Our main findings are: (1) Workers with higher relative wage positionswithin their firms are on average more...
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Conspicuous Consumption and Race:Evidence from South Africa
Kaus, Wolfhard - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2010
A century ago, Thorstein Veblen introduced socially contingent con-sumption into the economic literature. This paper complements the scarceempirical literature by testing his conjecture on South African householddata and nds that Black and Coloured households spend relatively moreon visible...
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Meaning and Function in the Theory of Consumer Choice:Dual Selves in Evolving Networks
Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten - Frankfurt School of Finance & Management - 2010
Building on the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce, recent advances in biosemiotics haveresulted into a concise framework for the analysis of signs in living systems. This paper exploresthe potential for economics and shows how biosemiotics can integrate two differentresearch agendas, each of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836935
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Discretionary Capitalization of R&D - The Trade-Off Between Earnings Management and Signaling
Dinh Thi, Tami; Kang, Helen; Schultze, Wolfgang - Universität <Augsburg> / Lehrstuhl für … - 2009
We analyze the trade-off between the benefits of signaling and the distortions fromopportunistic earnings management … signaling theory, we argue that the market may use an overallassessment of earnings management to identify R&D capitalizations …
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Kosher Pork
Drazen, Allan; Ilzetzki, Ethan - University of Maryland <College Park, Md.> / Department …; … - 2011
Both conventional wisdom and leading academic research view pork barrel spendingas antithetical to responsible policymaking in times of crisis. In this paper we presentan alternative view. When agents are heterogeneous in their ideology and in theirinformation about the economic situation,...
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A Strategic Selection Procedure
Suzuki, Toru - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2011
intoaccount not only the test performances but also signaling element of the test. Weanalyze the selection procedure as a … signaling game and derive the optimal selectionrule. Moreover, the optimal size of candidate pool and the selection e¢ ciency …
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Signaling with Performance and the Effect of Competition
Suzuki, Toru - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2010
ability. Then, as a signaling, each candidatedecides whether to perform a task whose performance statistically re‡ects the … ability.However, since the cost of the performance is the same across all candidates, theperformance is a poor signaling … device. This paper analyzes a "signaling game withperformance" in which the standard single crossing condition is violated …
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The Value of Third-Party Certification ofPreconditioning Claims at Iowa Feeder Cattle Auctions
Bulut, Harun; Lawrence, John D. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2006
After controlling a variety of feeder cattle characteristics and market and sale conditions, weestimate the price premiums for preconditioning (vaccinations and minimum 30 days weaning)claims with and without third-party certification (TPC) as $6.15/cwt and $3.40/cwt, respectively,in Iowa feeder...
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Precision in U-Type and J-Type Tournaments
Schöttner, Anja - 2005
In this paper I contrast the impact of precision, i.e., the level of accuracy with which workers' performance is assessed, on wage costs in U- and J-type tournaments. In U-type tournaments prizes are fixed. In J-type tournaments only anoverall wage sum is specified. The principal can increase...
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Der ehrbare Franchisegeber: Ein empirischer Beitrag
Ehrmann, Thomas - 2006
Mit Hilfe von Daten junger deutscher Franchisesysteme werden empirische Einsichten inZusammenhänge zwischen der Wahl von laufenden und einmaligen Gebühren sowie demUmsatz der Franchisenehmer gewonnen. Zusätzlich werden die Wirkungen der bei denFranchisenehmern verbleibenden unternehmerischen...
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