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Strategic Hiring Behavior in Empirical Matching Functions

Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001

(2000) testing for endogenous competition among job seekers in a matching frame-work, is replicated with a richer and more … is augmented by endogenous strategic hiring behavior on the side of vacancyposting firms. Neglecting job competition, the …

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A Product Market Theory of Worker Training

Gersbach, Hans; Schutzler, Armin - 2001

employees and finally engage in imperfect product market competition. Equilibria with and without training, and multiple … equilibria can emerge. If competition is sufficiently soft and trained workers are substitutes, firms may invest in non …

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Employment Protection, Product Market Competition and Growth

Koeniger, Winfried - 2002

competition. For reasonable parameter values product market deregulation fosters growth substantially more in the flexible than in …

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Doping and cheating in contest-like situations

Kräkel, Matthias - 2006

Individuals who compete in a contest-like situation (for example, in sports, in promotion tournaments, or in an appointment contest) may have an incentive to illegally utilize resources in order to improve their relative positions. We analyze such doping or cheating within a tournament game...

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Self-selection and the efficiency of tournaments

Eriksson, Tor; Teyssier, Sabrina; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2006

When exogenously imposed, rank-order tournaments have incentive properties but their overall efficiency is reduced by a high variance in performance (Bull, Schotter, and Weigelt 1987). However, since the efficiency of performance-related pay is attributable both to its incentive effect and to...

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Cooperation, competition, and risk attitudes: an intergenerational field and laboratory experiment

Charness, Gary; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2007

The population of most developed societies is 'graying'. As life expectancy increases and the large baby-boom generation approaches retirement age, this has critical consequences for maintaining a high standard of living and the sustainability of pension systems. In the light of these...

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Competition, hidden information and efficiency: an experiment

Cabrales, Antonio; Charness, Gary; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2006

We devise an experiment to explore the effect of different degrees of competition on optimal contracts in a hidden … principals. We first show theoretically how these different degrees of competition affect outcomes and efficiency. Informational … relative number of agents because competition reduces the agents' informational monopoly power. However, this environment also …

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Do institutions, ownership, exporting and competition explain firm performance? Evidence from 26 transition countries

Commander, Simon; Svejnar, Jan - 2007

Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) to assess the effect on performance of ownership, competition, export orientation and the … variables and endogeneity that plague studies in this area. We find that foreign ownership and competition have an impact on …

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Market orientation and gender wage gaps: an international study

Zweimüller, Martina; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - 2007

in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in …

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Gender and self-selection into a competitive environment: are women more overconfident than men?

Nekby, Lena; Skogman Thoursie, Peter; Vahtrik, Lars - 2007

Using a large running race in Sweden, this study shows that there are male-dominated environments in which the selection of women who participate are more likely to be confident/competitive and that, within this group, performance improves equally for both genders.

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