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EVALUATING MICROFOUNDATIONSFOR AGGREGATE PRICE RIGIDITIES EVIDENCE FROM MATCHED FIRM-LEVEL DATA ON PRODUCT PRICES AND UNIT LABOR COST

Carlsson, Mikael; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2009

to predictable marginal cost changes, as expected from the Mankiwand Reis (2002) Sticky Information Model. We nd that... …

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Information Sharing and Cooperative Search in Fisheries

Evans, Keith; Weninger, Quinn - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2010

members of an information sharingCooperative. Once collected, information about the location of productive sh-ing sites is an … excludable public good. We show that independent shermen donot internalize the full value of information and do not replicate rst …-best searchpatterns. An information sharing Cooperative faces a free-riding problem as eachmember prefers that another undertake costly …

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Search and active learning with correlated information:Empirical evidence from Mid-Atlantic clam fishermen

Marcoul, Philippe; Weninger, Quinn R. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2007

This paper examines search with active learning and correlated information. We firstdevelop a simple model to show how … correlation affects the decision to acquire information.A unique data set on fishing site choice by mid-Atlantic clam fishermen is … declines, i.e., when the opportunity cost of gathering information is low, butalso when catch at familiar sites is on the rise …

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Growth and Labor Income Risk withInelastic and Elastic Labor Supply

Clemens, Christiane - Universität <Hannover> / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche … - 2004

We discuss long-run growth in an economy which is subject toaggregate productivity shocks affecting all factors of production. Wedemonstrate that the presence of labor income risk unambiguously isan important determinant of long-run expected growth. The issue ofdynamic inefficiency of the...

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Training the Unemployed in France: How Does ItAffect Unemployment Duration and Recurrence?

Crépon, Bruno; Ferracci, Marc; Fougère, Denis - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Econometric evaluations of public-sponsored training programmes generally find littleevidence of an impact of such policies on transition rates out of unemployment. We performthe first evaluation of training effects for the unemployed adults in France, exploiting a uniquelongitudinal dataset...

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Union Wage Compression in a Right-to-Manage Model

Vogel, Thorsten - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2007

Trade unions are consistently found to compress the wage distribution. Moreover, unemployment affects in particular low-skilled workers. The present paper argues that an extended Right-to-Manage model can account for both of these findings. In this model unions compress the wage distribution by...

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Does Temporary Agency Work Provide a Stepping Stone to Regular Employment?

Kvasnicka, Michael - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2005

Based on administrative data from the federal employment office in Germany, we apply matching techniques to estimate …

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Tournaments and Office Politics:Evidence from a Real Effort Experiment

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans; Schirm, John - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

In many environments, tournaments can elicit more effort from workers, except perhapswhen workers can sabotage each other. Because it is hard to separate effort, ability andoutput in many real workplace settings, the empirical evidence on the incentive effect oftournaments is thin...

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The Impact of Teams on Output, Quality and Downtime:An Empirical Analysis Using Individual Panel Data

Jones, Derek C.; Kato, Takao - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

To investigate the size and the timing of the direct impact of participatory arrangements onbusiness performance, we assemble and analyze extraordinary daily data for rejection,production and downtime rates for all operators in a single plant during a 35 month period,more than 77,000...

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Gross Worker Flows in the Presence of InformalLabor Markets: Evidence from Mexico, 1987-2002

Bosch, Mariano; Maloney, William - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper applies recent advances in the study of labor market dynamics to a representativedeveloping country with a large unregulated of informal sector. It confirms the relevance ofthe recent mainstream models and debates surrounding gross worker flows to the developingcountry context,...

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