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Lab labor: What can labor economists learn from the lab?
Charness, Gary; Kuhn, Peter - 2010
understanding of principal-agent interactions, social preferences, union-firm bargaining, arbitration, gender differentials …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271387
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Job ladder, human capital, and the cost of job loss
Audoly, Richard; De Pace, Federica; Fella, Giulio - 2022
High-tenure workers who lose their jobs experience a large and prolonged fall in wages and earnings. The aim of this paper is to understand and quantify the forces behind this empirical regularity. We propose a structural model of the labor market with heterogeneous firms, on-the-job search and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480407
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Can education save Europe from high unemployment?
Walter, Nicole; Xie, Runli - 2008
Empirical observations show that education helps to protect against labor market risks. This is twofold: The higher educated face a higher expected wage income and a lower probability of being unemployed. Although this relationship has been analyzed in the literature broadly, several questions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263735
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The labor market consequences of gender differences in job search
Eriksson, Stefan; Lagerström, Jonas - 2008
This paper studies gender differences in labor market outcomes using data from an Internetbased CV database. The women in the database get fewer firm contacts than men, and we show that this is partly explained by differences in education, experience and other skills, is not explained by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321474
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Car ownership and the Labor Market of Ethnic Minorities
Gautier, Pieter A.; Zenou, Yves - 2008
We show how small initial wealth differences between low skilled black and white workers can generate large differences in their labor-market outcomes. This even occurs in the absence of a taste for discrimination against blacks or exogenous differences in the distance to jobs. Because of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325730
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Car ownership and the labor market of ethnic minorities
Gautier, Pieter A.; Zenou, Yves - 2008
We show how small initial wealth differences between low skilled black and white workers can generate large differences in their labor-market outcomes. This even occurs in the absence of a taste for discrimination against blacks or exogenous differences in the distance to jobs. Because of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269288
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Is it your foreign name or foreign qualifications? An experimental study of ethnic discrimination in hiring
Carlsson, Magnus; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2008
This paper contributes to the existing literature on ethnic discrimination of immigrants in hiring by addressing the central question of what employers act on in a job application. The method involved sending qualitatively identical resumes signalling belonging to different ethnic groups to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269375
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Lawyers as agents of the devil in a prisoner's dilemma game: Evidence from long run play
Ashenfelter, Orley; Bloom, David E.; Dahl, Gordon Boyack - 2013
in wage disputes that were settled by final-offer arbitration in New Jersey. The paper also reports briefly on similar … agreeing not to hire lawyers is cheaper and does not appear to alter arbitration outcomes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293160
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The Impact of Compulsory Arbitration on Bargaining Behavior: An Experimental Study
Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2005
A series of experiments compares bargaining behavior under three different settings: no arbitration, conventional and … final offer arbitration. Under no arbitration disputes with zero payoffs were around 10%, while the pie was equally split in … less than half of the cases. Under conventional arbitration - where the arbitrator is free in choosing his award - every …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297233
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Arbitration and Mediation: An Economic Perspective
Manzini, Paola; Mariotti, Marco - 2002
This paper deals with the effects that intermediation has on strategic behaviour in negotiations. To this end, we use the tools of game theory to analyse how different institutional settings can provide specific strategic incentives and thereby condition the outcome of negotiations. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262705