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We analyse consumers' search and purchase decisions on an Internet platform. Using a rich dataset on all adverts posted and transactions made on a major French Internet platform (PriceMinister), we show evidence of substantial price dispersion among adverts for the same product. We also show...
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We analyse consumers' search and purchase decisions on an Internet platform. Using a rich dataset on all adverts posted and transactions made on a major French Internet platform (PriceMinister), we show evidence of substantial price dispersion among adverts for the same product. We also show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011078385
Discouragement is a process occurring during an unemployment spell. As the spell prolongs, an individual gradually realises that the returns to search can no longer outweigh search costs, and hence she may eventually leave the labour force. This is analysed theoretically in a framework of...
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The poor performance often attributed to many public employment services may be explained in part by a delegation problem between the central office and local job centers. In markets characterized by frictions, job centers function as match-makers, linking job seekers with relevant vacancies....
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Discouragement is a process occurring during an unemployment spell. As the spell prolongs, an individual gradually realises that the returns to search can no longer outweigh search costs, and hence she may eventually leave the labour force. This is analysed theoretically in a framework of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822813
The poor performance often attributed to many public employment services may be explained in part by a delegation problem between the central office and local job centers. In markets characterized by frictions, job centers function as match-makers, linking job seekers with relevant vacancies....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008564693
are driven by both lower posted wages and reduced bargaining power, as well as reduced opportunities to climb the wage …
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pillars of the model: sectoral collective bargaining and firm-level codetermination. Relative to the United States, Germany … outsources collective bargaining to the sectoral level, resulting in higher coverage and the avoidance of firm … unemployment, but may also erode bargaining coverage and increase inequality. Meanwhile, firm-level codetermination through worker …
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We investigate experimentally how the menstrual cycle affects bargaining behavior and bargaining outcomes of women …. Female participants negotiate in an unstructured bilateral bargaining game with asymmetric information about the allocation … of a surplus ('pie size'). We find that the menstrual cycle affects bargaining behavior and that the effects depend on …
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bargaining power of the trade union and it has effort-enhancing and wage-moderating effects. We show that higher profit sharing … high benefit-replacement ratios and relative bargaining powers of trade unions. Conversely, profit sharing seems to be …
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