Tournaments: There Is More Than Meets the Eye
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- Epstein, Gil S. & Nitzan, Shmuel, 2004. "Tournaments: There Is More Than Meets the Eye," IZA Discussion Papers 1023, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
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Keywords
Tournaments; Promotion; Wasted efforts;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D20 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - General
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- J20 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - General
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LAB-2004-06-13 (Labour Economics)
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