Andrew Weiss
Biographic Data
| ID | 5736057 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Weiss |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Weiss |
| SIGNATURE | WEISS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Professor of Economics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts. |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8900-2779 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 146 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Promoting transportation safety in adolescence: The drivingly randomized controlled trial
ClinicalTrials.gov # NCT03639753
Toward a Comprehensive Model of Fake News: A New Approach to Examine the Creation and Sharing of False Information
The authors discuss a new conceptual model to examine the phenomenon of fake news. Their model focuses on the relationship between the creator and the consumer of fake news and proposes a mechanism by which to determine how likely users may be to share fake news with others. In particular, it is hypothesized that information users would likely be influenced by seven factors in choosing to share fake news or to verify information, including the us…
The Dark Side of Our Digital World: And What You Can Do about It
An all-in-one guide to understanding and managing the dark side of our digital lives. It all started out so well: the online world began as an effective tool for communication that carried with it a great promise to level the playing field and eliminate borders. But it’s morphed into something totally unintended. We’ve all had to endure the troll that derails a generally benign conversation; or received that scam email from a wealthy Nigerian pri…
Parti. Information and the Weapons of Mass Distraction
It all started out so well: the online world began as an effective tool for communication that carried with it a great promise to level the playing field and eliminate borders. But it’s morphed into something totally unintended. We’ve all had to endure the troll that derails a generally benign conversation; or received that scam email from a wealthy Nigerian prince; or felt the strange feeling of being watched and tracked by advertising companies…
Does financial liberalization improve the allocation of investment
Monitoring Impacts of Natural Resource Extraction on Lemurs of the Masoala Peninsula, Madagascar
Merenlender, A., C. Kremen, M. Rakotondratsima and A. Weiss 1998. Monitoring impacts of natural resource extraction on lemurs of the masoala peninsula, madagascar. Conservation Ecology 2(2): 5. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-00064-020205
Capital market imperfections before and after financial liberalization: An Euler equation approach to panel data for Ecuadorian firms
Using a large panel of Ecuadorian firms, this paper analyzes the role of capital market imperfections for investment decisions, and investigates whether the financial reforms introduced in the 80s have succeeded in relaxing financial constraints. The model allows both for an increasing cost of borrowing, as the degree of leverage increases, and for a ceiling on the latter. The empirical results support the existence of significant capital market …
Human Capital vs. Signalling Explanations of Wages
The key difference between signalling and human capital models is that signalling models allow firms to draw inferences about unobserved characteristics of workers. Those inferences can be based on the schooling or work experience of workers, or on direct measures of some aspects of job performance. Many recent empirical findings can be better explained by signalling models than by human capital theory. Given the explanatory power of signalling m…
Efficiency Wages: Models of Unemployment, Layoffs and Wage Dispersion
Known for his seminal work in efficiency-wage theory, Andrew Weiss surveys recent research in the field and presents new results. He shows how wage schedules affect the kinds of workers a firm employs and how well those workers perform on the job. Using straightforward examples, he demonstrates how efficiency-wage theory can explain labor market outcomes and guide government policy. There is a separate section of applications to less developed co…
Efficiency Wages: Models of Unemployment, Layoffs, and Wage Dispersion
Reframing incrementalism: A constructive response to the critics
Efficiency Wages: Models of Unemployment, Layoffs, and Wage Dispersion
Journal Article Efficiency Wages: Models of Unemployment, Layoffs, and Wage Dispersion Get access Efficiency Wages: Models of Unemployment, Layoffs, and Wage Dispersion. By WEISS (ANDREW). (Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press, 1991. Pp. vii+118. £25.00 hardback, £8.85 paperback. ISBN 0 198283938, 0 19 828392 X.) Stephen Machin Stephen Machin University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Ec…
Efficiency Wages: Models of Unemployment, Layoffs, and Wage Dispersion
Known for his seminal work in efficiency-wage theory, Andrew Weiss surveys recent research in the field and presents new results. He shows how wage schedules affect the kinds of workers a firm employs and how well those workers perform on the job. Using straightforward examples, he demonstrates how efficiency-wage theory can explain labor market outcomes and guide government policy. There is a separate section of applications to less developed co…
High School Graduation, Performance, and Wages
Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and a proprietary sample of semiskilled production workers, this paper investigates the reasons for the discontinuous increase in wages associated with graduation from high school. The author finds a discontinuous decrease in workers' propensities to quit or be absent. However, he does not find that graduates have a comparative advantage in production jobs requiring more training, nor in either s…
ARCH and Bilinear Time Series Models: Comparison and Combination
Two extensions to the ARMA model, bilinearity and ARCH errors are compared, and their combination is considered. Starting with the ARMA model, tests for each extension are discussed, along with various least squares and maximum likelihood estimates of the parameters and tests of the estimated models based on these. The effects each may have on the identification, estimation, and testing of the other are given, and it is seen that to distinguish b…
A Sorting-cum-Learning Model of Education
This paper presents a sorting model of education in which individuals are tested in school. By assuming that higher-ability individuals are more likely to succeed on a given test, one can construct a sorting model of education that does not hinge on the more able having lower nonpecuniary costs of schooling. Nash equilibria always exist in this model (even with a continuum of types of individuals); however, some are "unreasonable." To eliminate t…
Job Queues and Layoffs in Labor Markets with Flexible Wages
Models of a heterogeneous labor market are presented in which a worker's acceptance wage is an increasing function of his ability, and in which firms have imprecise information concerning the labor endowment of particular workers.Because the expected labor endowment of a hiree is an increasing function of the firm's wage offer, industrial firms may choose not to lower wages when confronted with a queue of job applicants. Rejected job applicants w…
Human Capital vs. Signalling Explanations of Wages
The key difference between signalling and human capital models is that signalling models allow firms to draw inferences about unobserved characteristics of workers. Those inferences can be based on the schooling or work experience of workers, or on direct measures of some aspects of job performance. Many recent empirical findings can be better explained by signalling models than by human capital theory. Given the explanatory power of signalling m…
Job Queues and Layoffs in Labor Markets with Flexible Wages
Models of a heterogeneous labor market are presented in which a worker's acceptance wage is an increasing function of his ability, and in which firms have imprecise information concerning the labor endowment of particular workers.Because the expected labor endowment of a hiree is an increasing function of the firm's wage offer, industrial firms may choose not to lower wages when confronted with a queue of job applicants. Rejected job applicants w…
Reframing incrementalism: A constructive response to the critics
A Sorting-cum-Learning Model of Education
This paper presents a sorting model of education in which individuals are tested in school. By assuming that higher-ability individuals are more likely to succeed on a given test, one can construct a sorting model of education that does not hinge on the more able having lower nonpecuniary costs of schooling. Nash equilibria always exist in this model (even with a continuum of types of individuals); however, some are "unreasonable." To eliminate t…
Does financial liberalization improve the allocation of investment
High School Graduation, Performance, and Wages
Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and a proprietary sample of semiskilled production workers, this paper investigates the reasons for the discontinuous increase in wages associated with graduation from high school. The author finds a discontinuous decrease in workers' propensities to quit or be absent. However, he does not find that graduates have a comparative advantage in production jobs requiring more training, nor in either s…
Capital market imperfections before and after financial liberalization: An Euler equation approach to panel data for Ecuadorian firms
Using a large panel of Ecuadorian firms, this paper analyzes the role of capital market imperfections for investment decisions, and investigates whether the financial reforms introduced in the 80s have succeeded in relaxing financial constraints. The model allows both for an increasing cost of borrowing, as the degree of leverage increases, and for a ceiling on the latter. The empirical results support the existence of significant capital market …
Efficiency Wages: Models of Unemployment, Layoffs, and Wage Dispersion
Journal Article Efficiency Wages: Models of Unemployment, Layoffs, and Wage Dispersion Get access Efficiency Wages: Models of Unemployment, Layoffs, and Wage Dispersion. By WEISS (ANDREW). (Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press, 1991. Pp. vii+118. £25.00 hardback, £8.85 paperback. ISBN 0 198283938, 0 19 828392 X.) Stephen Machin Stephen Machin University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Ec…
Job Queues and Layoffs in Labor Markets with Flexible Wages
Models of a heterogeneous labor market are presented in which a worker's acceptance wage is an increasing function of his ability, and in which firms have imprecise information concerning the labor endowment of particular workers.Because the expected labor endowment of a hiree is an increasing function of the firm's wage offer, industrial firms may choose not to lower wages when confronted with a queue of job applicants. Rejected job applicants w…
A Sorting-cum-Learning Model of Education
This paper presents a sorting model of education in which individuals are tested in school. By assuming that higher-ability individuals are more likely to succeed on a given test, one can construct a sorting model of education that does not hinge on the more able having lower nonpecuniary costs of schooling. Nash equilibria always exist in this model (even with a continuum of types of individuals); however, some are "unreasonable." To eliminate t…
ARCH and Bilinear Time Series Models: Comparison and Combination
Two extensions to the ARMA model, bilinearity and ARCH errors are compared, and their combination is considered. Starting with the ARMA model, tests for each extension are discussed, along with various least squares and maximum likelihood estimates of the parameters and tests of the estimated models based on these. The effects each may have on the identification, estimation, and testing of the other are given, and it is seen that to distinguish b…
High School Graduation, Performance, and Wages
Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and a proprietary sample of semiskilled production workers, this paper investigates the reasons for the discontinuous increase in wages associated with graduation from high school. The author finds a discontinuous decrease in workers' propensities to quit or be absent. However, he does not find that graduates have a comparative advantage in production jobs requiring more training, nor in either s…
Efficiency Wages: Models of Unemployment, Layoffs, and Wage Dispersion
Known for his seminal work in efficiency-wage theory, Andrew Weiss surveys recent research in the field and presents new results. He shows how wage schedules affect the kinds of workers a firm employs and how well those workers perform on the job. Using straightforward examples, he demonstrates how efficiency-wage theory can explain labor market outcomes and guide government policy. There is a separate section of applications to less developed co…
Reframing incrementalism: A constructive response to the critics
Efficiency Wages: Models of Unemployment, Layoffs, and Wage Dispersion
Journal Article Efficiency Wages: Models of Unemployment, Layoffs, and Wage Dispersion Get access Efficiency Wages: Models of Unemployment, Layoffs, and Wage Dispersion. By WEISS (ANDREW). (Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press, 1991. Pp. vii+118. £25.00 hardback, £8.85 paperback. ISBN 0 198283938, 0 19 828392 X.) Stephen Machin Stephen Machin University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Ec…
Efficiency Wages: Models of Unemployment, Layoffs and Wage Dispersion
Known for his seminal work in efficiency-wage theory, Andrew Weiss surveys recent research in the field and presents new results. He shows how wage schedules affect the kinds of workers a firm employs and how well those workers perform on the job. Using straightforward examples, he demonstrates how efficiency-wage theory can explain labor market outcomes and guide government policy. There is a separate section of applications to less developed co…
Efficiency Wages: Models of Unemployment, Layoffs, and Wage Dispersion
Human Capital vs. Signalling Explanations of Wages
The key difference between signalling and human capital models is that signalling models allow firms to draw inferences about unobserved characteristics of workers. Those inferences can be based on the schooling or work experience of workers, or on direct measures of some aspects of job performance. Many recent empirical findings can be better explained by signalling models than by human capital theory. Given the explanatory power of signalling m…
Capital market imperfections before and after financial liberalization: An Euler equation approach to panel data for Ecuadorian firms
Using a large panel of Ecuadorian firms, this paper analyzes the role of capital market imperfections for investment decisions, and investigates whether the financial reforms introduced in the 80s have succeeded in relaxing financial constraints. The model allows both for an increasing cost of borrowing, as the degree of leverage increases, and for a ceiling on the latter. The empirical results support the existence of significant capital market …
Monitoring Impacts of Natural Resource Extraction on Lemurs of the Masoala Peninsula, Madagascar
Merenlender, A., C. Kremen, M. Rakotondratsima and A. Weiss 1998. Monitoring impacts of natural resource extraction on lemurs of the masoala peninsula, madagascar. Conservation Ecology 2(2): 5. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-00064-020205
Does financial liberalization improve the allocation of investment
The Dark Side of Our Digital World: And What You Can Do about It
An all-in-one guide to understanding and managing the dark side of our digital lives. It all started out so well: the online world began as an effective tool for communication that carried with it a great promise to level the playing field and eliminate borders. But it’s morphed into something totally unintended. We’ve all had to endure the troll that derails a generally benign conversation; or received that scam email from a wealthy Nigerian pri…
Parti. Information and the Weapons of Mass Distraction
It all started out so well: the online world began as an effective tool for communication that carried with it a great promise to level the playing field and eliminate borders. But it’s morphed into something totally unintended. We’ve all had to endure the troll that derails a generally benign conversation; or received that scam email from a wealthy Nigerian prince; or felt the strange feeling of being watched and tracked by advertising companies…
Toward a Comprehensive Model of Fake News: A New Approach to Examine the Creation and Sharing of False Information
The authors discuss a new conceptual model to examine the phenomenon of fake news. Their model focuses on the relationship between the creator and the consumer of fake news and proposes a mechanism by which to determine how likely users may be to share fake news with others. In particular, it is hypothesized that information users would likely be influenced by seven factors in choosing to share fake news or to verify information, including the us…
Promoting transportation safety in adolescence: The drivingly randomized controlled trial
ClinicalTrials.gov # NCT03639753
Economics (11 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (6 works) · Labour economics (6 works) · Wage (5 works) · Econometrics (4 works) · Efficiency wage (4 works) · Macroeconomics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Economic theories and models (3 works)