(nov 2014) 5 papers... in 5 minutes !
- Tenure, Experience, Human Capital and Wages : A Tractable Equilibrium Search Model of Wage Dynamics - Jesper Bagger, François Fontaine, Fabien Postel-Vinay and Jean-Marc Robin. Sources of inequalities, wages mirror the labour market. While they have long been considered a simple corollary of job and employee productivity, we know now that market imperfections play a determining rôle in them. The ease with which an employer can hire someone, or an employee can change firms, can vary wages upwards or downwards...
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- Learning and collusion in new markets with uncertain entry costs - Francis Bloch, Simona Fabrizi and Steffen Lippert. When new opportunities appear – the development of new products, to enter new geographic markets – firms begin to acquire information. They gradually assess these new events through studying the markets and testing products. Only once they have become sure that the new market is profitable do they decide to enter it...
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- Environmental Policies under Debt Constraint - Mouez Fodha, Thomas Seegmuller and Hiroaki Yamagami. Environmental policies are often constrained by budgetary goals that require the control of deficits and public debt. What are the consequences of a high level of public debt on environmental policy? This is an issue for most developed countries, which since 2008 have faced a crisis in public debt that has relegated environmental concerns to the backburner...
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- Transparency in Public Life – a Quantum Cognition Perspective - François Dubois and Ariane Lambert-Mogiliansky. The Mathematical formalism of Quantum Mechanics (QM) was developed to respond to the challenge put to scientific exploration when the process of investigation cannot be separated from the investigated object. Under recent years...
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- Benefit in the wake of disaster: Long-run effects of earthquakes on welfare in rural Indonesia - Jérémie Gignoux and Marta Menendez. Following natural disasters, what economic losses do rural households incur and much time do they lose ? While the most extreme disasters resulting in numerous victims come to mind first, mostly, it is more regular natural catastrophes that affect the goods (such as houses) and economic resources (especially farms, but also infrastructure) of families and communities...
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