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作者：Calsamiglia, Caterina
作者单位：Autonomous University of Barcelona
摘要：In a global justice problem, equality of opportunity is satisfied if individual well-being is independent of exogenous irrelevant characteristics. Policymakers, however, address questions involving local justice problems. We interpret a collection of local justice problems as the decentralized global justice problem. We show that controlling for effort locally, which is not required by the global justice objective, is sufficient for decentralizing equality of opportunity. Moreover, under some ...
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作者：Kambourov, Gueorgui; Manovskii, Iourii
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; University of Toronto
摘要：We find that returns to occupational tenure are substantial. Everything else being constant, 5 years of occupational tenure are associated with an increase in wages of 12%-20%. Moreover, when occupational experience is taken into account, tenure with an industry or employer has relatively little importance in accounting for the wage one receives. This finding is consistent with human capital being occupation specific.
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作者：Belleflamme, Paul; Toulemonde, Eric
作者单位：Universite Catholique Louvain; Universite Catholique Louvain; University of Namur; IZA Institute Labor Economics
摘要：Two types of agents interact on a pre-existing free platform. Agents value positively the presence of agents of the other type but may value negatively the presence of agents of their own type. We ask whether a new platform can find fees and subsidies so as to divert agents from the existing platform and make a profit. We show that this might be impossible if intra-group negative externalities are sufficiently (but not too) strong with respect to positive inter-group externalities.
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作者：Lee, Sam-Ho
作者单位：University of Western Australia
摘要：This article introduces a new model of early contracting. Employers who have private information about the applicant's ability worry that applicants who accept their offer are precisely those who were not offered other jobs. To avoid this winner's curse, employers anticipate the time of contracting. The model is developed in the context of university admissions, and is shown to be consistent with several stylized facts in that market. We show that, in contrast to received wisdom, allocative ef...
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作者：Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban; Sarte, Pierre-Daniel; Owens, Raymond
作者单位：Princeton University
摘要：We document several empirical regularities regarding the evolution of urban structure in the largest U. S. metropolitan areas over the period 1980-90. These regularities relate to changes in resident population, employment, occupations, as well as the number and size of establishments in different sections of the metropolitan area. We then propose a theory of urban structure that emphasizes the location and internal structure decisions of firms. In particular, firms can decide to locate their ...
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作者：Egger, Hartmut; Kreickemeier, Udo
作者单位：Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; University of Bayreuth; University of Nottingham
摘要：This article develops a model that incorporates workers' fair wage preferences into a general equilibrium framework with heterogeneous firms. In a setting where the wage considered to be fair by workers depends on the productivity of the firm they are working in, we study the determinants of profits, involuntary unemployment and within-group wage inequality. We use this model to investigate the effects of globalization, thereby pointing to distributional conflicts that have so far not been acc...
