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compensation. The model combines multitasking and screening, embedded into a Hotelling-like framework. Competition for the most …
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It is clear that education has an important effect on wages paid in the labour market However it not clear whether this is due to the role that education plays in raising the productivity of workers (the human capital explanation) or whether education simply reflects the ability of the worker...
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We consider a monopolistic supplier’s optimal choice of wholesale tariffs when downstream firms are privately informed about their retail costs. Under discriminatory pricing, downstream firms that differ in their ex ante distribution of retail costs are offered different tariffs. Under uniform...
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This paper analyzes a model in which housing tenure choice serves as a means of screening households with different … acts as a screening device: consistent with empirical evidence, low-utilization households buy a house, while high …-utilization types rent. Otherwise, there is a pooling equilibrium. The reason why, contrary to standard screening models, a pooling …
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improve predation enforcement in general. As a consequence, the introduction of a pre-screening approach is proposed, which …
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Empirical and experimental papers find that high-powered incentives may reduce performance rather than improve it; a phenomenon referred to as choking under pressure. We show that competition for high ability workers nevertheless leads firms to offer high bonus payments, thereby deliberately...
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increase profits. Our results have important implications for both the design of screening tools to detect cartels as part of …
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authority. The results not only suggest that monitoring procurement markets through screening tools has the potential of …
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In two experiments, we examine the effects of employer reputation in an online labor market (Amazon Mechanical Turk) in which employers may decline to pay workers while keeping their work product. First, in an audit study of employers by a blinded worker, we find that working only for good...
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We investigate whether the publicly available information on Facebook about job applicants affects employers' hiring decisions. To this end, we conduct a field experiment in which fictitious job applications are sent to real job openings in Belgium. The only characteristic in which these...
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