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Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih - 2008

A society is characterized by the common attitudes and behavior of its members. Such behavior reflects purposive decision making by individuals, given the environment they live in. Thus, as technology changes, so might social norms. There were big changes in social norms during the 20th century,...

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Ethnicity, assimilation and harassment in the labor market

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2008

We often observe minority ethnic groups at a disadvantage relative to the majority. Why is this and what can be done about it? Efforts made to assimilate, and time, are two elements working to bring the minority into line with the majority. A third element, the degree to which the majority...

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Entrepreneurial innovation and sustained long-run growth without weak or strong scale effects

Grossmann, Volker - 2008

R&D-based growth theory suggests that a larger population size raises either the long-run rate of economic growth …

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On amenities, natural advantage and agglomeration

Krupka, Douglas J. - 2008

A prominent feature of economic geography in America is the positive correlation amongst local incomes, housing costs and city population. This paper embeds a black box agglomeration economy within a more neoclassical general equilibrium model of local wages, rents and population to assess the...

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Feedback and incentives: experimental evidence

Eriksson, Tor; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2008

This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through the production period, and continuously updated...

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War and endogenous democracy

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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