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Do legal immigrants and natives compete in the labour market? Evidence from Catalonia
Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2010
The precondition for labour-market competition between immigrants and natives is that both are willing to accept jobs that do not differ in quality. To test this hypothesis, in this paper we compare the working conditions between immigrants and natives in Catalonia. Comparing immigrants' working...
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Do legal immigrants and natives compete in the labour market? : evidence from Catalonia
Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2010
The precondition for labour-market competition between immigrants and natives is that both are willing to accept jobs that do not differ in quality. To test this hypothesis, in this paper we compare the working conditions between immigrants and natives in Catalonia. Comparing immigrants' working...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003934138
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Employed and unemployed job seekers: Are they substitutes?
Longhi, Simonetta; Taylor, Mark - 2010
The job search literature suggests that an increase in the proportion of job seekers who are employed reduces the probability of unemployed people finding a job. However, there is little evidence indicating that employed and unemployed job seekers have similar observed characteristics or that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288905
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Selection tournaments, sabotage, and participation
Münster, Johannes - 2006
This paper studies sabotage in tournaments with at least three contestants, where the contestants know each other well. Every contestant has an incentive to direct sabotage specifically against his most dangerous rival. In equilibrium, contestants who choose a higher productive effort are...
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Exit and power in general equilibrium
Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - 2008
We integrate individual power in groups into general equilibrium models. The relationship between group formation …, resource allocation, and the power of specific individuals or particular sociological groups is investigated. We introduce, via … an illustrative example, three appealing concepts of power and show that there is no monotonic relationship between these …
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The economic debate on power : a Marxist critique
Palermo, Giulio - In: The journal of economic methodology 21 (2014) 2, pp. 175-192
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Competition, Takeovers and Gender Discrimination
Heyman, Fredrik; Svaleryd, Helena; Vlachos, Jonas - 2008
Theories of taste-based discrimination predict that competitive pressures will drive discriminatory behavior out of the market. Using detailed matched employer-employee data, we analyze how firm takeovers and product market competition are related to the gender composition of the firm's...
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Strategic behavior across gender : a comparison of female and male expert chess players
Gerdes, Christer; Gränsmark, Patrik - 2010
This paper aims to measure differences in risk behavior among expert chess players. The study employs a panel data set on international chess with 1.4 million games recorded over a period of 11 years. The structure of the data set allows us to use individual fixed-effect estimations to control...
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Are females scared of competing with males? : results from a field experiment
De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2013
We conducted a field experiment involving 720 Italian undergraduate students to investigate the existence of gender differences in performance in competitive settings and whether performance is affected by one's opponent gender. The experimental design was aimed at disentangling gender...
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Gender Differences in Competitive Positions : Experimental Evidence on Job Promotion
Peterle, Emmanuel - 2017
This paper analyzes gender differences in access to competitive positions. We implement an experiment where workers can apply for a job promotion by sending a signal to their employer. We control for gender differences in anticipation of discrimination in a treatment where a computer randomly...
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