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Fairness properties of compensation schemes
Journal of Law, Economics & OrganizationHow do different characteristics of pay-for-performance schemes affect fairness perceptions? In two studies, we systematically consider three major classes of incentive schemes: continuous piece rate incentives, discrete bonus schemes, and tournament ...
Christoph K. Becker +4 more
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Employers and Unemployment Insurance Take-Up
The American Economic ReviewWe quantify the employer's role in unemployment insurance (UI) take-up. Employer effects on claiming and appeals are substantial, and those effects are negatively correlated, consistent with appeals deterring claims.
Marta Lachowska +2 more
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How Equality Created Poverty in Preindustrial Japan, 1600–1870
American Economic Journal: Applied EconomicsDespite well-developed economic institutions, premodern Japan, 1600–1868, had among the lowest real wages according to available estimates, around half those in preindustrial England.
Yuzuru Kumon
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“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap
The American Economic ReviewWe show that subjective assessments of employee “potential” contribute to gender gaps in promotion and pay. Using data on 29,809 management-track employees from a large retail chain, we find that women receive substantially lower potential ratings ...
Alan Benson, Danielle Li, Kelly Shue
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Age at Marriage and Women' s Labor Market Outcomes in India
Social Science Research NetworkWe examine the relationship between womens age at marriage and their labor market outcomes using nationally representative household data from India.
Gaurav Dhamija, Punarjit Roychowdhury
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Tax Incentives for Migrants with Mid-level Earnings: Evidence from the Netherlands†
American Economic Journal: Applied EconomicsWe examine how income taxes affect international mobility and wages. We study a Dutch preferential tax scheme for migrants, which introduced an income threshold for eligibility in 2012. The threshold is low relative to similar schemes in other countries,
L. Timm, Massimo Giuliodori, Paul Muller
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Strategic Thinking Skills: A Key to Collective Economic Success
American Economic Journal: MicroeconomicsWe conduct a large-scale experiment to measure elementary aspects of strategic thinking skills and their linkage to labor market outcomes. Two incentivized measures of higher-order rationality and backward induction are developed.
Syngjoo Choi +2 more
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Declining Wage Inequality in Developing Countries: The Case of Brazil
Journal of Economic LiteratureDespite rising inequality in rich countries, many developing economies have experienced a decline in inequality in recent decades. Brazil is a notable example. From 1995 to 2015, its Gini index decreased from 58 to 48 points.
Sergio Firpo, Alysson Portella
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Labor Market Inequality and the Changing Life Cycle Profile of Male and Female Wages
American Economic Journal: Applied EconomicsWe estimate the full distribution of life cycle wages for cohorts of men and women in the United States using a quantile selection model to account for systematic differences in employment by gender and education group.
Richard Blundell +2 more
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Incentive Complexity, Bounded Rationality, and Effort Provision
The American Economic ReviewUsing field and laboratory experiments, we demonstrate that the complexity of incentive schemes and worker bounded rationality can affect effort provision. This is because some attributes of the incentives become opaque; that is, workers do not take them
Johannes Abeler +2 more
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