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Guard labor : an essay in honor of Pranab Bardhan
Bowles, Samuel; Jayadev, Arjun - 2004
extent of income inequality and the fraction of the labor force that is constituted by guard labor. We close with some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527337
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Inequality and guard labor, or prohibition and guard labor?
Geloso, Vincent; Kufenko, Vadim - 2017
In this paper, we consider whether or not inequality forces society to expend more resources on supervision which … imposes an extra cost to doing business. Some argue that since inequality deteriorates social capital, there is a greater need … the link between inequality and guard labor. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011618757
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Information transparency, fairness and labor market efficiency
Işgın, Ebru; Sopher, Barry - In: Journal of behavioral and experimental economics 58 (2015), pp. 33-39
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Social preferences and competition
Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2009
There is a general presumption that social preferences can be ignored if markets are competitive. Market experiments (Smith 1962) and recent theoretical results (Dufwenberg et al. 2008) suggest that competition forces people to behave as if they were purely self-interested. We qualify this view....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003935667
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Social preferences and competition
Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2010
There is a general presumption that social preferences can be ignored if markets are competitive. Market experiments (Smith 1962) and recent theoretical results (Dufwenberg et al. 2008) suggest that competition forces people to behave as if they were purely self-interested. We qualify this view....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003951883
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Guard labor
Jayadev, Arjun; Bowles, Samuel - In: Journal of development economics 79 (2006) 2, pp. 328-348
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Spatial Changes in Labour Market Inequality
Lindley, Joanne - 2013
We study spatial changes in labour market inequality for US states and MSAs using Census and American Community Survey … spatial inequality. Because relative supply of college versus high school educated workers has risen faster at the spatial … level in places with higher initial supply levels, we also report a strong persistence and increased inequality of spatial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076155
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Labor market polarization and intergenerational mobility : theory and evidence
Hennig, Jan-Luca - 2021
In this paper I investigate the causal relationship between labor market polarization and intergenerational mobility, two of the most important features of advanced labor markets in recent decades. The former relates to the disappearance of middle-wage routine jobs and the rise of both high- and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013326554
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Local labor markets and human capital investments
Weinstein, Russell - 2017
I study whether human capital investments are based on local rather than national demand, and whether this is explained by migration or information frictions. I analyze three sector-specific shocks with differential local effects, including the dot-com crash, the 2008 financial crisis, and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011621483
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Frictional labor mobility
Schmutz, Benoît; Sidibé, Modibo - 2016
We build a dynamic model of migration where, in addition to classical mobility costs, workers face informational frictions that decrease their ability to compete for distant job opportunities. We structurally estimate the model on a matched employer-employee panel dataset describing labor market...
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