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Inputs, incentives, and self-selection at the workplace
Amodio, Francesco; Martinez-Carrasco, Miguel A. - 2019
This paper studies how asymmetric information over inputs affects workers' response to incentives and self-selection at the workplace. Using daily records from a Peruvian egg production plant, we exploit a sudden change in the worker salary structure and find that workers' effort, firm profits,...
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Financial constraints and innovation : why poor countries don’t catch up
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Schnitzer, Monika - 2010
's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941706
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The relationship between economic growth and democracy : alternative representations of technological change
Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Nam-Seok - 2017
This study investigates the relationship between economic growth and democracy by estimating a nation's production function specified as static and dynamic models using panel data. In estimating the production function, it applies a single time trend, multiple time trends and the general index...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704213
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How do industries and firms respond to changes in local labor supply?
Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht - 2011
In this paper, we investigate how changes in the skill mix of local labor supply are absorbed by the economy. We distinguish between three adjustment mechanisms: through factor prices, through an expansion in the size of those production units that use the more abundant skill group more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009524993
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Immigrants' "ability" and welfare as a function of cultural diversity : effect of cultural capital at individual and local level
Tubadji, Annie; Gheasi, Masood; Nijkamp, Peter - 2014
This paper presents an operationalization of a mixed Bourdieu–Mincer-type model that seeks to find evidence for individual and local cultural capital effects on human capital 'ability'. We aim to compare these effects for native workers and immigrants (as well as between immigrants themselves)...
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Healer or gatekeeper? : physicians' role conflict when symptoms are non-verifiable
Carlsen, Benedicte; Nyborg, Karine - 2017
Although physicians are often expected to be gatekeepers to health insurance benefits such as paid sick leave, research indicates a substantial reluctance to reject patient requests for sickness certificates. We show that private information on the patient's part creates a conflict between the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647475
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Sample attrition bias in randomized experiments : a tale of two surveys
Behaghel, Luc; Crépon, Bruno; Gurgand, Marc; Le … - 2009
two independent surveys on the same initial sample of 8,000 persons. The first one is a long telephone survey that had a … telephone survey targeted at those leaving the unemployment registers; this enriched data source has a balanced and much higher … results. Using the enriched administrative data as benchmark, we find evidence that estimates from the long telephone survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003844972
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Please call again : correcting non-response bias in treatment effect models
Behaghel, Luc; Crépon, Bruno; Gurgand, Marc; Le … - 2012
We propose a novel selectivity correction procedure to deal with survey attrition, at the crossroads of the "Heckit … models, we use information on the number of attempts that were made to obtain response to the survey from each individual who … and unbalanced response rates. -- survey non response ; sample selectivity ; treatment effect model ; randomized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009575404
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The effects of development on migration : theoretical issues and new empirical evidence
Rotte, Ralph; Vogler, Michael - 1999
Empirical research on the determinants of international migration including the LDCs has so far neglected one important issue: the complex relationship of development and migration. Since the beginning of the 1990s several arguments have been discussed which hint at the possibility that progress...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295413
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Monitoring costs, credit constraints and entrepreneurship
Banerji, Sanjay; Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal - 2012
The vast majority of firms in developing economies are micro and small enterprises owned by families whose members also provide the labour to the units. Often, they fail to grow in size even with the relaxation of credit constraints. In this paper, we show that frictions in the labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548201