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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
6486 Masaru Sasaki
Katsuya Takii
Junmin Wan
Horizontal Transfer and Promotion: New Evidence and an Interpretation from the Perspective of Task-Specific Human Capital
This paper provides new evidence about horizontal transfer and promotion using the largest available personnel panel data in Japan and interprets them from the perspective of task-specific human ...
(published as 'Synchronized job transfer and task-specific human capital' in: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2020, 56, 101075)
J62, M51
6485 Martin Kahanec
Labor Mobility in an Enlarged European Union
The 2004 and 2007 enlargements of the EU extended the freedom of movement to workers from the twelve new member states mainly from Central Eastern Europe. This study summarizes and comparatively ...
(published in: A. F. Constant, K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, pp. 137-152)
F22, J61
6484 Ronald Bachmann
Thomas K. Bauer
Hanna Kroeger
Minimum Wages as a Barrier to Entry: Evidence from Germany
This study analyses employers' support for the introduction of industry-specific minimum wages as a cost-raising strategy in order to deter market entry. Using a unique data set consisting of 800 ...
(published in: Labour, 2014, 28 (3), 338-357)
J38, J50, L41, L80
6483 Claudio Lucifora
Federica Origo
Performance Related Pay and Firm Productivity: New Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in Italy
This paper investigates the causal effect of a switch from fixed wages to collective performance-related pay on firm productivity, exploiting an exogenous variation in the institutional environment ...
(published as 'Performance-Related Pay and Firm Productivity: Evidence from a Reform in the Structure of Collective Bargaining' in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015, 68(3), 606-632)
J31, J33, J52, L61
6480 Josse Delfgaauw
Robert Dur
Arjan Non
Willem Verbeke
The Effects of Prize Spread and Noise in Elimination Tournaments: A Natural Field Experiment
We conduct a natural field experiment in a large retail chain to test basic predictions of tournament theory regarding prize spread and noise. A random subset of the 208 stores participates in ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33(3), 521-569)
C93, M51, M52
6479 Aaron Sojourner
Do Unions Promote Members' Electoral Office Holding? Evidence from Correlates of State Legislatures' Occupational Shares
Controversies over the promise and perils of union political influence have erupted around the U.S. This study develops the first evidence on the degree to which labor unions develop members' ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2013, 66 (2), 467–486)
D7, H7, J5
6478 Herbert Dawid
Gerd Muehlheusser
Repeated Selection with Heterogenous Individuals and Relative Age Effects
In contexts such as education and sports, skill-accumulation of individuals over time crucially depends on the amount of training they receive, which is often allocated on the basis of repeated ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 116, 387–406)
J24, M53, I25, I28
6475 Julie Rosaz
Robert Slonim
Marie Claire Villeval
Quitting and Peer Effects at Work
While peer effects have been shown to affect worker's productivity when workers are paid a fixed wage, there is little evidence on their influence on quitting decisions. This paper presents results ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 39, 55-67)
C91, D83, J63, J28, J81
6474 Jasmin Kantarevic
Boris Kralj
Link between Pay for Performance Incentives and Physician Payment Mechanisms: Evidence from the Diabetes Management Incentive in Ontario
Pay for performance (P4P) incentives for physicians are generally designed as additional payments that can be paired with any existing payment mechanism such as salary, fee-for-service, and ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2013, 22(12), 1417–1439)
I10, I12, I18
6473 Gilles Saint-Paul
Davide Ticchi
Andrea Vindigni
A Theory of Political Entrenchment
We develop a theory of endogenous political entrenchment in a simple two-party dynamic model of income redistribution with probabilistic voting. A partially self-interested left-wing party may ...
(Economic Journal, 2016, 126, 1238-1263)
D72, P16
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