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How Can Managers Motivate Workers When They Cannot Raise Pay?

March 9, 2026Microeconomics No Comments
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Daniel Bird and Alexander Frug study the interaction between a front-line manager and worker, and characterize the “managerial style” as a function of the players’ relative patience and information.

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How Labor Contracts Shape Firm Success and Productivity

February 23, 2026Labor Economics Macroeconomics Public Policy No Comments
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Josep Pijoan-Mas and Pau Roldan-Blanco explore how fixed-term and open-ended contracts affect firm behavior and outcomes in Spain.

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Affirmative Action Increases Female Leadership in Scientific Research

February 9, 2026Labor Economics Public Policy No Comments
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A study by Lídia Farré and Judit Vall Castelló demonstrates that affirmative action policies effectively increased female leadership in research, reduced gender evaluation gaps, and are more efficient than gender quotas in promoting female talent in science.

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How Confederate Statues Triggered Migration and Economic Decline

January 26, 2026Cultural Economics Economic History Political Economy No Comments
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Francesco Ferlenga provides quasi-experimental and experimental evidence on the effect of divisive monuments on the location choices of dissenting groups, focusing on Confederate monuments erected by Southern whites in the early 20th-century United States and opposed by Black Americans.

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