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    <title>Behind the lighthouse effect</title>
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    <description>Titel: Behind the lighthouse effect
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&lt;br/&gt;Autoren: Boeri, Tito; Garibaldi, Pietro; Ribeiro, Marta
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&lt;br/&gt;Zusammenfassung: A large body of empirical literature indicates that, contrary to predictions from economic theory, wages in the informal sector increase after any minimum wage hike. This phenomenon was so far explained as a byproduct of a signal conveyed by statutory minimum wages to wage setting in the informal sector, as if workers in the latter had significant bargaining power. A simple matching model shows that the lighthouse effect may be induced by significant sorting and composition effects between the formal and shadow sectors in the aftermath of the increase in the minimum wage. Using data on Brazil, we test this alternative explanation of the lighthouse effect, associated with the endogenous sorting of workers by skill in the formal and informal sectors. We find that sorting accounts for at least one third of the increase in average wages in the informal sector after the minimum wage hike. This contribution of sorting to wage dynamics in the informal sector is also increasing over time.</description>
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    <title>Unwillingness to pay for privacy: A field experiment</title>
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    <description>Titel: Unwillingness to pay for privacy: A field experiment
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&lt;br/&gt;Autoren: Beresford, Alastair R.; Kübler, Dorothea; Preibusch, Sören
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&lt;br/&gt;Zusammenfassung: We measure willingness to pay for privacy in a field experiment. Participants were given the choice to buy a maximum of one DVD from one of two online stores. One store consistently required more sensitive personal data than the other, but otherwise the stores were identical. In one treatment, DVDs were one Euro cheaper at the store requesting more personal information, and almost all buyers chose the cheaper store. Surprisingly, in the second treatment when prices were identical, participants bought from both shops equally often.</description>
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    <title>High performance work practices and employee voice: A comparison of Japanese and Korean workers</title>
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    <description>Titel: High performance work practices and employee voice: A comparison of Japanese and Korean workers
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&lt;br/&gt;Autoren: Bae, Kiu-sik; Chuma, Hiroyuki; Kato, Takao; Kim, Dong-bae; Ohashi, Isao
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&lt;br/&gt;Zusammenfassung: Using a unique new cross-national survey of Japanese and Korean workers, we report the first systematic evidence on the effects on employee voice of High Performance Work Practices (HPWPs) from the two economies which are noted for the wide use of HPWPs. We find for both nations that: (i) workers in firms with HPWPs aimed at creating opportunities for employees to get involved (such as shopfloor committees and small group activities) are indeed more likely to have stronger senses of influence and voice on shopfloor decision making than other workers; (ii) workers whose pay is tied to firm performance are more likely to have a stake in firm performance and hence demand such influence and voice; and (iii) consequently workers in firms with HPWPs are more likely to make frequent suggestions for productivity increase and quality improvement. As such, this paper contributes to a small yet growing new empirical literature which tries to understand the actual process and mechanism through which HPWPs lead to better enterprise performance.</description>
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    <title>Residual wage inequality in urban China, 1995 - 2007</title>
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    <description>Titel: Residual wage inequality in urban China, 1995 - 2007
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&lt;br/&gt;Autoren: Xing, Chunbing
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&lt;br/&gt;Zusammenfassung: We use three waves of urban household survey data from 1995 to 2007 to investigate the trends of residual inequality and its determinants. First, we describe the change of overall and residual wage inequality over time. One important new pattern is that the rise in both the overall and residual inequality mainly happened at the upper half of the wage distributions (i.e. the rich are getting relatively much richer) from 2002 to 2007. From 1995 to 2002, however, it is truer to say that the poor are getting relatively much poorer. Second, by using two complementary semi-parametric methods, we find that the composition effect is negligible. Instead, the change in skill prices plays a dominant role in the rise of residual inequality. Finally, by constructing a panel data at the city level, we find that ownership restructuring is an important factor that has caused the skill price to rise, especially in the earlier period. Another finding is that China's export share of GDP has a positive effect on the enlargement of the upper half distributions. This effect is more significant in the latter period from 2002 to 2007, highlighting the impact of China's entry into the WTO.</description>
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