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Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - 2008

aftermath of major wars. Motivated by this fact, we offer a theory of political transitions which focuses on the impact of … evidence consistent with our theory is also provided. …

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Uncertainty and the politics of employment protection

Vindigni, Andrea - 2008

This paper investigates the role that idiosyncratic uncertainty plays in shaping social preferences over the degree of labor market flexibility, in a general equilibrium model of dynamic labor demand where the productivity of firms evolves over time as a Geometric Brownian motion. A key result...

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Risk-taking tournaments: theory and experimental evidence

Nieken, Petra; Sliwka, Dirk - 2008

We study risk-taking behavior in a simple two person tournament in a theoretical model as well as a laboratory experiment. First, a model is analyzed in which two agents simultaneously decide between a risky and a safe strategy and we allow for all possible degrees of correlation between the...

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Variable search intensity in an economy with coordination unemployment

Kaas, Leo - 2008

This paper analyzes an urn-ball matching model in which workers decide how intensively they sample job openings and apply at a stochastic number of suitable vacancies. Equilibrium is not constrained efficient; entry is excessive and search intensity can be too high or too low. Moreover, an...

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A new unified theory of sociobehavioral forces

Jasso, Guillermina - 2007

This paper proposes a new unified theory of sociobehavioral forces. The goal of the new theory is to integrate theories … characteristics, and primordial sociobehavioral outcomes. The unified theory posits the operation of three sociobehavioral forces … distinctive identity and a distinctive magnitude of happiness. Thus, the theory enables systematic and parsimonious analysis of …

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Calibration and IV estimation of a wage outcome equation in a dynamic environment

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2008

power of the instrument and dynamic self-selection caused by the policy shock implies that access to a strong instrument is …

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Trade and location with land as a productive factor

Pflüger, Michael; Tabuchi, Takatoshi - 2008

received no attention in the new trade theory and the new economic geography. We set up a simple monopolistic competition model …

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Incentive design and trust: comparing the effects of tournament and team-based incentives on trust

Oxoby, Robert J.; Friedrich, Colette - 2008

We explore the extent to which the structure of incentives affects trust. We hypothesize that the degree to which different incentive mechanisms emphasize competition (via the perceived intentions of others) and entitlements (via the perceived property rights) will affect individuals' subsequent...

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Human capital externalities and the urban wage premium: two literatures and their interrelations

Halfdanarson, Benedikt; Heuermann, Daniel F.; Südekum, Jens - 2008

In this paper we survey the recent developments in two empirical literatures at the crossroads of labor and urban economics: Studies about localized human capital externalities (HCE) and about the urban wage premium (UWP). After surveying the methods and main results of each of these two...

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Gender based taxation and the division of family chores

Alesina, Alberto; Ichino, Andrea; Karabarbounis, Loukas - 2007

Gender Based Taxation (GBT) satisfies Ramsey's optimal criterion by taxing less the more elastic labor supply of (married) women. This holds when different elasticities between men and women are taken as exogenous and primitive. But in this paper we also explore differences in gender...

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