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作者：De Paola, Maria; Scoppa, Vincenzo; Pupo, Valeria
作者单位：University of Calabria
摘要：We analyze how the absence behavior of Italian public sector employees has been affected by a law, passed in June 2008, reducing sick leave compensation and increasing monitoring. We use micro data on 889 workers employed in public administration. We find that the employees'' probability of being absent diminishes and that the reduction is greater among employees suffering higher earnings losses. Employees are responsive to the monitoring intensity and to the announcement of policy changes. Fe...
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作者：Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stephane
作者单位：Institut Polytechnique de Paris; ENSAE Paris; Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR); Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD); IZA Institute Labor Economics
摘要：In October 2007, France introduced an exemption on the income tax and social security contributions that applied to wages received for hours worked overtime. The goal of the policy was to increase the number of hours worked. This article shows that this reform has had no significant impact on hours worked. Conversely, it has had a positive impact on the overtime hours declared by highly qualified wage earners, who have opportunities to manipulate the overtime hours they declare in order to opt...
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作者：Kroft, Kory; Pope, Devin G.
作者单位：University of Toronto; University of Chicago; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：Since the seminal work of Stigler in 1962, economists have recognized that information is costly to acquire and leads to search frictions. Growth in online search has lowered the cost of information acquisition. We analyze the expansion of the website Craigslist, which allows users to post job and housing ads. Exploiting the sharp geographic and temporal variation in the availability of online search induced by Craigslist, we produce three key findings: Craigslist significantly lowered classif...
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作者：Lyle, David S.; Smith, John Z.
作者单位：United States Military Academy; United States Department of Defense; United States Army
摘要：Military assignment mechanisms provide a unique opportunity to estimate the impact of high-performing mentors on job advancement of their subordinates. Combining US Army administrative data with officer evaluation reports, we find that high-performing mentors positively affect early junior officer promotion and that early promotion probabilities rise as the duration of the high-quality mentorship increases. These effects are largest for high-ability proteegees. Junior officers who were exposed...
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作者：Larkin, Ian
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：This article investigates the pricing distortions that arise from the use of a common nonlinear incentive scheme at a leading enterprise software vendor. The empirical results demonstrate that salespeople are adept at gaming the timing of deal closure to take advantage of the vendor''s accelerating commission scheme. Specifically, salespeople agree to significantly lower pricing in quarters in which they have a financial incentive to close a deal, resulting in mispricing that costs the vendor ...
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作者：Fevang, Elisabeth; Markussen, Simen; Roed, Knut
摘要：In most countries, employers are financially responsible for sick pay during an initial period of a worker''s absence spell, after which the public insurance system covers the bill. Based on an empirical evaluation of a quasi-natural experiment in Norway, where pay liability was removed for pregnancy-related absences, we show that the system of short-term pay liability creates a sick pay trap: firms are discouraged from letting long-term sick workers back into work since they then face the fin...
