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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Efficiency wage"”.
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International trade's effect on the labor market: How does it affect wages?
… internationally competitive sectors have higher wages than uncompetitive sectors. There are two possible reasons for this relationship. First, greater import and export shares can influence wages. Second, there are characteristics of internationally competitive sectors, regardless of trade …
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Essays on Crime and Law
… we attempt to identify the causal effect of wages on a prosecutor’s effort by studying an exogenous salary increase in New York. We measure the performance by the likelihood that a conviction is upheld when appealed. If the efficiency wage theory explains behavior, then the exogenous wage …
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Money Matters? Essays on human capital accumulation, occupational choice and worker productivity.
… third chapter analyses whether higher relative wages can motivate teachers to work harder, or more productively, in any way that affects pupil outcomes. Consistent with the predictions of the efficiency wage model, we find that teachers’ relative wages have a positive effect on their pupils’ …
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Three essays on the economics of corruption
… the permit. Third, the model confirms the efficiency wage argument; that is, a higher wage discourages corruption by lowering the probability that bureaucrat will accept bribes for fear of losing their jobs if get caught. More rigorous law enforcement to increase the probability of …
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Essays on economies with heterogeneous labor
… of private insurance. The second chapter, Efficiency Wages with Heterogeneous Agents, builds a model of efficiency wages with heterogeneous workers in the economy who differ with respect to their disutility of labor effort. In such an economy, two types of pure strategy symmetric Nash …
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Essays on the Economics of the National Basketball Association (N.B.A.): Testing for Inefficiencies in the N.B.A. Labor Market
… examines the effects the 1995 N.B.A. rookie wage scale had on the salaries and productivity of players who entered the league after its implementation. The rookie wage scale was introduced as a means of reducing the guaranteed salaries rookie players could receive upon entering the league. …
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Full- and part-time work and wages : an application to two countries
This thesis investigates the extent of the wage differentials between females working full- and part-time in Australia and the United States, the causes of these differentials and the effect these differentials have on the aggregate ratio of female to male wages in both countries. The thesis …
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Full- and part-time work and wages : an application to two countries
This thesis investigates the extent of the wage differentials between females working full- and part-time in Australia and the United States, the causes of these differentials and the effect these differentials have on the aggregate ratio of female to male wages in both countries. The thesis …