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Optimal Sanctions and Endogeneity of Differences in Detection Probabilities

Friehe, Tim - 2008

Offenders differ with respect to their detection probability in reality. Bebchuk and Kaplow [Bebchuk, L. A., & Kaplow, L. (1993). Optimal sanctions and differences in individuals likelihood of avoiding detection. International Review of Law and Economics, 13, 217224] conclude that optimal...

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Escalating Penalties for Repeat Offenders : a Note on the Role of Information

Friehe, Tim - 2009

The severity of the sanction for a given offense is often determined by the offense history of the offender. We establish that this policy can be welfare-maximizing if individuals are imperfectly informed about the magnitude of the sanction. Imperfect information distorts individuals...

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Repeat Offenders and Imperfect Information

Friehe, Tim - 2008

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Deregulation and relative wages: Stability and change in Australia

Preston, Alison - 2000

In Australia the pace of labour market deregulation has rapidly accelerated over

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Intelligent agents in electronic markets for information goods:customization, preference revelation and pricing

Aron, Ravi; Sundararajan, Arun; Viswanathan, Siva - 2005

Electronic commerce has enabled the use of intelligent agenttechnologies that can evaluate buyers, customize products, and price inreal-time. Our model of an electronic market with customizable productsanalyzes the pricing, profitability and welfare implications ofagent-based technologies that...

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A proactive response to the mobbing problem : a guide for HR managers

Shallcross, Linda; Ramsay, Sheryl; Barker, Michelle - 2010

This paper introduces the concept of workplace mobbing as a destructive organizational behaviour of psychological assaults perpetrated against the target causing them harm and loss of employment. The discussion is drawn from a three year Australian study of 212 self identified targets of...

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Estimating a Dynamic Adverse-Selection Model: Labor-Force Experience and the Changing Gender Earnings Gap 1968-97.

Gayle, George-Levi; Golan, Limor - 2010

and discrimination to explain the narrowing gender earnings gap from 1968 to 1993. The paper proves the model is …: statistical discrimination accounts for 36 percent of the observed gender earnings gap in the mid-to-late 1970s, declining to 22 …

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Evolution of gender wage gap in Peru, 1997-2000

Longnecker, Michael (contributor); … - 2007

gender. The wage differential due to gender, and not to differences in labor characteristics, is called discrimination. The … goal of this project is to estimate the evolution of the wages differentials and wage discrimination between males and … education and more experience will be rewarded at the same rate at any combination. The wage discrimination estimation shows …

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Labor market issues for administrators: evidence from public schools in Texas

Deere, Donald (contributor); Ureta, Manuelita (contributor) - 2007

This dissertation examines three labor market issues regarding public schooladministrators in Texas using personnel records from the 1994-95 school year untilthe 2003-04 school year. The first essay explores promotion rates of men and womento school principal, a position that requires...

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Developing reproducible and comprehensible computational models

Lane, P C R; Gobet, F - 2003

Quantitative predictions for complex scientific theories are often obtained by running simulations on computational models. In order for a theory to meet with wide-spread acceptance, it is important that the model be reproducible and comprehensible by independent researchers. However, the...

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