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作者：Bradler, Christiane; Neckermann, Susanne; Warnke, Arne Jonas
作者单位：Volkswagen; Volkswagen Germany; University of Chicago; BASF
摘要：This paper reports the results from a large-scale laboratory experiment that compared the impacts of a performance bonus and a wage gift on output from a creative task and a simple task. We find that the performance bonus substantially increases output in both the creative task and the simple task. By comparison, the wage gift increases output only in the simple task. Additional experimental treatments suggest that reciprocity in the creative task is inhibited because agents are uncertain abou...
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作者：Karbownik, Krzysztof; Wray, Anthony
作者单位：Emory University; University of Southern Denmark
摘要：We explore whether fetal and postnatal exposure to tropical cyclones affects education and income in adulthood by using World War I draft records linked to census data. Difference-in-differences estimates indicate that white males born in hurricane-prone US states who experienced a hurricane in utero or as infants had 5% lower income. Labor force participation was unaffected, while education and migration account for a small portion of the effects on income. Empirical tests suggest the persist...
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作者：Phelan, Brian J.
作者单位：DePaul University
摘要：This paper analyzes a new explanation of the ripple effect of minimum wages based on how minimum wages affect hedonic compensation. Minimum wage hikes lower compensating differentials at low-skill undesirable jobs because they raise wages at the most desirable low-skill job, the minimum wage job. This change in hedonic compensation may cause some individuals to optimally leave low-wage undesirable jobs and seek more desirable employment. If labor supply falls at low-wage undesirable jobs, empl...
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作者：Loyalka, Prashant; Sylvia, Sean; Liu, Chengfang; Chu, James; Shi, Yaojiang
作者单位：Stanford University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; University of North Carolina School of Medicine; Peking University; Shaanxi Normal University
摘要：We present results of a randomized trial testing alternative approaches of mapping student achievement into rewards for teachers. Teachers in 216 schools in western China were assigned to performance pay schemes where teacher performance was assessed by one of three different methods. We find that teachers offered pay-for-percentile incentives outperform teachers offered simpler schemes based on class-average achievement or average gains over a school year. Moreover, pay-for-percentile incenti...
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作者：Merlino, Luca Paolo; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich; Wren-Lewis, Liam
作者单位：University of Antwerp; Free University of Berlin; Helmut Schmidt University; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Paris School of Economics; INRAE
摘要：This paper investigates whether interracial contact in childhood impacts adult romantic relationships. We exploit quasi-random variation in the share of black students across cohorts within US schools. We find that more black peers of the same gender lead whites to have more relationships with blacks as adults. While we do not find impacts on labor market outcomes, there are significant effects on reported racial attitudes. Furthermore, an increase in meeting opportunities is unlikely to expla...
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作者：Monras, Joan
作者单位：Pompeu Fabra University; Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR)
摘要：This paper introduces a spatial equilibrium model that relates earnings, employment, and internal migration responses to minimum wage increases. Population moves to or away from regions that increase minimum wages depending on the labor demand elasticity and on the financing of unemployment benefits. The empirical evidence shows that increases in minimum wages lead to increases in wages and decreases in employment among the low skilled. The labor demand elasticity is estimated to be around 1, ...
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作者：Serafinelli, Michel
作者单位：University of Essex; IZA Institute Labor Economics
摘要：This paper is the first to present direct evidence showing how localized knowledge spillovers arise from workers changing jobs within the same local labor market. Using a unique data set combining Social Security earnings records and balance sheet information for the Veneto region of Italy, I first identify a set of highly productive firms, then show that hiring workers with experience at these firms significantly increases the productivity of other firms. My findings imply that worker flows e...
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作者：Banfi, Stefano; Villena-Roldan, Benjamin
作者单位：Universidad de Chile
摘要：Labor markets become more efficient in theory if job seekers direct their search. Using online job board data, we show that high-wage ads attract more applicants as in directed search models. Due to distinctive data features, we also estimate significant but milder directed search for hidden (or implicit) wages, suggesting that ad texts and requirements tacitly convey wage information. Since explicit-wage ads often target unskilled workers, other estimates in the literature ignoring hidden-wag...
