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Labour Unions – To Unite or to Separate?

Upmann, Thorsten - CESifo - 2008

In this paper we investigate trade union formation. To this end we apply a model with two types of labour where the interests of both groups of labourers are represented by either a joint (industry) labour union or by two independent group-specific (professional) labour unions. We investigate...

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Workfare in an Efficiency Wage Model

Meier, Volker - CESifo - 2002

The impacts of introducing work requirements for welfare recipients are studied in an efficiency wage model. If the workfare package is not mandatory, it will reduce employment, profits, and utility levels of employed and unemployed workers. In contrast, mandatory effort requirements will...

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Incentive Contracts and Efficient Unemployment Benefits

Demougin, Dominique; Helm, Carsten - CESifo - 2009

Several European countries have reformed their labor market institutions. Incentive effects of unemployment benefits have been an important aspect of these reforms. We analyze this issue in a principal-agent model, focusing on unemployment levels and labor productivity. In our model, a higher...

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Business Cycles, Unemployment Insurance, and the Calibration of Matching Models

Costain, James S.; Reiter, Michael - CESifo - 2003

matching function. One can easily choose a calibration to make the cyclical fluctuation in unemployment as large in the model … model as it is in the data. We show with a simple analytical calculation that in the standard job matching model, one cannot …

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Gift-Exchange, Incentives, and Heterogeneous Workers

Non, Arjan - CESifo - 2011

By incorporating reciprocity in an otherwise standard principal-agent model, I investigate the relation between monetary gift-exchange and incentive pay, while allowing for worker heterogeneity. I assume that some, but not all, workers care more for their principal when they are convinced that...

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Gender and Racial Biases: Evidence from Child Adoption

Baccara, Mariagiovanna; Collard-Wexler, Allan; Felli, … - CESifo - 2010

This paper uses a new data set on domestic child adoption to document the preferences of potential adoptive parents over born and unborn babies relinquished for adoption by their birth mothers. We show that adoptive parents exhibit significant biases in favor of girls and against...

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Potentially Harmful International Cooperation on Global Public Good Provision

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Cornes, Richard; Rübbelke, Dirk - CESifo - 2012

-called matching approaches. Matching schemes are regarded as providing a promising approach to overcome undersupply of public goods … like climate protection. The functioning of matching mechanisms in a setting with an incomplete agreement, i.e. a contract … by analyzing incomplete matching agreements in the context of international climate protection. We analyse their effect …

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Matching as a Cure for Underprovision of Voluntary Public Good Supply: Analysis and an Example

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Cornes, Richard; Rübbelke, Dirk - CESifo - 2011

Matching mechanisms are regarded as an important instrument to bring about Pareto optimal allocations in a public good … interior matching equilibrium, however, emerges only under very special conditions. But we show in this note that corner …

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The Scope of Auctions in the Presence of Downstream Interactions and Information Externalities

Koska, Onur A.; Onur, Ilke; Stähler, Frank - CESifo - 2015

-cost firm under incomplete information: a separating auction implies adverse selection and relies substantially on commitment to … allocation and transfer rules. A pooling auction serves as a commitment device against ex-post opportunistic behavior and … alleviates adverse selection. It can earn the investor a higher expected payoff than a separating auction, even when consistency …

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Volunteering and the Strategic Value of Ignorance

Morath, Florian - CESifo - 2011

Private provision of public goods often takes place as a war of attrition: individuals wait until someone else volunteers and provides the good. After a certain time period, however, one individual may be randomly selected. If the individuals are uncertain about their cost of provision, but can...

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