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Essays on equality of opportunity
Hufe, Paul - 2021
Equality of opportunity is a principle of justice that is built on two fundamental ideas. On the one hand, outcome differences across individuals are unacceptable if they are rooted in factors that are beyond individual control. Examples of such circumstance characteristics are the biological...
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EU-accession effects on sectoral trade : a Helpman-Melitz-Rubinstein approach with panel data
Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Vidovic, Martina; Voicu, … - 2014
This paper estimates the effects of the EU enlargements in the 2000s for trade in parts and components and trade in final goods separately. A gravity model is applied to disaggregated trade data over the period 1999 - 2009 for trade between EU and OECD countries. The estimation approach accounts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010383871
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Labour Productivity in Kenyan Manufacturing and Service Industries
Heshmati, Almas - 2016
Labour productivity reflects a firm's ability to generate higher production or value-added. This paper analyses labour productivity and its determinants in the manufacturing and service sectors in Kenya. As the largest economy in East Africa, it is crucial for Kenya to have high labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992728
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The Impact of Losing in a Competition on the Willingness to Seek Further Challenges
Buser, Thomas - 2014
How do people react to setbacks and successes? I introduce a new measure of challenge-seeking to determine the effect of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049206
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The Impact of Losing in a Competition on the Willingness to Seek Further Challenges
Buser, Thomas - 2014
How do people react to setbacks and successes? I introduce a new measure of challenge-seeking to determine the effect of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051368
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Testing for Efficiency Wages in Iran
Moshiri, Saeed - 2013
the labour market and long run involuntary unemployment. There are many empirical studies on efficiency wages in developed …, including ownership, size, industry type, education, skill, and gender. Our panel data estimation results indicate that state … positive effects on wages, and that there is gender discrimination in the manufacturing section of the labor market. Finally …
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Network Effects and Research Collaborations
Essers, Dennis; Grigoli, Francesco; Pugacheva, Evgenia - 2021
We study the determinants of new and repeated research collaborations, drawing on the co-authorship network of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s Working Papers series. Being an outlet where authors express their views on topics of interest, and given that IMF staff is not subject to the...
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Employer Learning and Informative Wages
Meli, Jeffrey; Spindler, James C. - 2022
We augment the standard asymmetric learning model with costly effort. With this adjustment, wages become fully informative of employee productivity, rather than merely reflective of public signals. Further, strategies designed to mask employee quality, commonly seen in standard models, become...
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Wage compression within the firm
Leonardi, Marco; Pellizzari, Michele; Tabasso, Domenico - 2015
We study the distributional effect of a wage indexation mechanism - the Scala Mobile (SM) - that heavily compressed the distribution of Italian wages during the 1970s and 1980s. The SM imposed large real wage increases at the bottom of the distribution and was essentially irrelevant for...
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Horizontal mergers, involuntary unemployment, and welfare
Budzinski, Oliver; Budzinski, Jürgen-Peter - 2009
horizontal mergers are substantially decreased, if involuntary unemployment exists. However, in full employment economies, demand … ; involuntary unemployment ; efficiency defense ; oligopoly ; competition …
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