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Asymmetric Price Adjustment in the Small

Chen, Haipeng (Allan); Levy, Daniel; Ray, Sourav; … - In: Journal of Monetary Economics 55 (2008) 4, pp. 728-737

Analyses of a large retail scanner price data set reveal a new and surprising regularity – small price increases occur more frequently than small price decreases for price changes of up to 10¢. That is, we find asymmetric price adjustment “in the small.” Furthermore, it turns out that...

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Working time accounts and firm performance in Germany

Bellmann, Lutz; Hübler, Olaf - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 24, pp. 1-18

correlated with working time accounts. No significant effects of working time accounts can be detected on wages and on operating …

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Foreign ownership and its effects on employment and wages: The case of Sweden

Brännlund, Runar; Nordström, Jonas; Stage, Jesper; … - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 5 (2016) 8, pp. 1-17

In this paper, we study how foreign ownership of Swedish companies affects employment and wages. To study these effects … employers bargain over employment and wages. Our hypothesis is that bargaining power is affected by institutional settings and … the period 1980-2005. The results indicate no significant impact of foreign ownership on employment or wages in Sweden. …

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Verringern Management-Entlohnungskosten die Agency-Kosten? Empirische Evidenz von netzwerkorientierten und marktorientierten Unternehmenskontrollsystemen

Crespi-Cladera, Rafel; Gispert, Carles; Renneboog, Luc - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 2, pp. 234-246

In the UK, the top executive remuneration policy is not geared towards the creation of value but compensation revisions are rather driven by changes in corporate size, measured by sales growth. This suggests that managing larger firms requires special managerial skills. Even in UK companies with...

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Does Smoking Really Harm Your Earnings so Much? Biases in Current Estimates of the Smoking Wage Penalty

Anger, Silke; Kvasnicka, Michael - In: Applied Economics Letters 17 (2010) 6, pp. 561-564

Empirical studies on the earnings effects of tobacco use have found significant wage penalties attached to smoking. This article produces evidence that suggests that these estimates are significantly upward biased. The bias arises from a general failure in the literature to control for past...

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Public sector contracting: An Australian study of changing work conditions

Ryan, Neal; Furneaux, Craig; Pink, Anthony; Brown, Kerry - In: Management Revue 16 (2005) 4, pp. 438-457

. The study focuses on evaluating the impact of the contracting-out of these services on the wages and conditions of … savings for government, these resulted partly from a reduction in wages and benefits of former blue collar staff, despite the … best efforts of the Western Australian government to protect staff wages and benefits. The research makes an important …

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Who is Reaping the Gains from Globalisation? – The Role of Labour Market Flexibility

Seidel, Tobias - In: CESifo DICE Report 03 (2005) 1, pp. 54-59

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Welfare Reform, Work and Wages: A Summary of the US Experience

Grogger, Jeffrey; Karoly, Lynn A. - In: CESifo DICE Report 03 (2005) 2, pp. 8-12

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Delay aversion

Ok, Efe A.; Benoît, Jean-Pierre - In: Theoretical Economics 2 (2007) 1, pp. 71-113

We address the following question: When can one person properly be said to be more delay averse than another? In reply, several (nested) comparison methods are developed. These methods yield a theory of delay aversion which parallels that of risk aversion. The applied strength of this theory is...

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Uphill self-control

Noor, Jawwad; Takeoka, Norio - In: Theoretical Economics 5 (2010) 2, pp. 127-158

This paper extends the theory of temptation and self-control introduced by Gul and Pesendorfer (2001) to allow for increasing marginal costs of resisting temptation, that is, convex self-control costs. It also proves a representation theorem that admits a general class of self-control cost...

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