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model where firms first decide whether to invest in general human capital, then make wage offers for each others' trained … employees and finally engage in imperfect product market competition. Equilibria with and without training, and multiple … equilibria can emerge. If competition is sufficiently soft and trained workers are substitutes, firms may invest in non …
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model where firms first decide whether to invest in general human capital, then make wage offers for each others' trained … employees and finally engage in imperfect product market competition. Equilibria with and without training, and multiple … equilibria can emerge. If competition is sufficiently soft and trained workers are substitutes, firms may invest in non …
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treatments agents earn the same wage sum but wage increases are distributed differently over time. We find that agents work … harder under increasing wage profiles if they do not know these profiles in advance. A profile that continuously increases … wages by small amounts raises performance by about 15% relative to a constant wage. The effort reactions can be organized by …
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Everyone remembers a plot where a disadvantaged individual facing the prospect of failure, spends more effort, turns around the game and wins unexpectedly. Most tournament theories, however, predict the opposite pattern and see the disadvantaged agent investing less effort. We show that 'turn...
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competition among counties. The present paper highlights the situation in which the citizens of two countries have the opportunity … strategic complements, but each tax rate is independent of the wage rates of both countries. Moreover, the prices set by the … strategic substitutes. The price is in reverse proportion to the domestic wage rate, yet is in direct proportion to the foreign …
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This paper presents a formal theory of reciprocity. Reciprocity means that people reward kind actions and punish unkind ones. The theory takes into account that people evaluate the kindness of an action not only by its consequences but also by the intention underlying this action. The theory...
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