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Competition between groups is ubiquitous in social and economic life, and groups are typically not created equal. Here we experimentally investigate the implications of this general observation on the unfolding of symmetric and asymmetric competition between groups that are either homogeneous or...
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, some variables have different statistical significance (or lack of it), and sometimes different signs. This heterogeneity …
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It has been argued that in the absence of altruism, intergenerational transfers can survive only if the old are net recipients. I prove that this need not hold in an over-lapping generations model with a fixed factor. For example, the middle-aged owning land may gain by providing public...
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We investigate the possibility that labor market discrimination affects economic outcomes in the complementary capital market. Previous research contains ample theoretical justification, and empirical evidence, that discrimination affects wages and employment in labor markets. However, the...
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systems waffle, as D. Schneider has called it). We have found the concept of complementarity to be very helpful in this … complementarity and coherence, and the specific indicators used to quantify them, the paper moves on to apply these concepts by … that the concept of complementarity has far-reaching implications for all efforts to shape, and possibly improve, the …
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The traditional Becker/Arrow style model of discrimination depicts majority and minority and workers as perfectly substitutable inputs, implying that all workers have the same job assignment. The model is only appropriate for determining whether pay differences between, for example, whites and...
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energy integration and highlights the complementarity of investments in different generation technologies for a successful …
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