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The Choice of Institutions: The Role of Risk and Risk-Aversion

Weinhold, Diana; Zak, Paul J. - EconWPA - 2005

Institutions can affect individual behavior both via their efficiency impact and via their risk reducing mechanisms … simultaneously extant institutions. This paper presents a simple model of institutional choice in a labor market when there is a risk …

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Structural change and performance of the German environmental sector

Horbach, Jens; Blien, Uwe; Hauff, Michael von - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008

"The so-called Environmental Sector produces technologies, products and services that prevent or reduce environmental damages. On the background of growing environmental problems such as climate protection this sector seems to be more and more important. Contrary to that, a theoretical model...

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Churning and institutions : Dutch and German establishments compared with micro-level data

Alda, Holger; Allaart, Piet; Bellmann, Lutz - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2005

"Often the high level of unemployment in Germany is explained by a lack of flexibility, over-regulation in the labour …, regulation, and social security systems will show the importance of these institutions for the mobility of individuals. In this … market institutions exerting some influence on churning appear to be: the share of fixed term contracts in total employment …

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Structural change and performance of the German environmental sector

Horbach, Jens; Blien, Uwe; Hauff, Michael von - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592341

Churning and institutions : Dutch and German establishments compared with micro-level data

Alda, Holger; Allaart, Piet; Bellmann, Lutz - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2005

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592342

Trade and unions: Can exporters benefit from collective bargaining?

Capuano, Stella; Hauptmann, Andreas; Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2014

"Unions are often stigmatized as being a source of inefficiency due to higher collective bargaining outcomes. This is in stark contrast with the descriptive evidence presented in this paper. Larger firms choose to export and are also more likely to adopt collective bargaining. We rationalize...

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Land Inequality and the Origin of Divergence and Overtaking in the Growth Process

Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Vollrath, Dietrich - EconWPA - 2004

associated with inequality adversely affected the emergence of institutions that promote human capital accumulation. The research …

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Context Matters – Rethinking the Resource Curse in Sub-Saharan Africa

Basedau, Matthias - EconWPA - 2005

Natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from a bad reputation. Oil and diamonds, particularly, have been blamed for a number of Africa’s illnesses such as poverty, corruption, dictatorship and war. This paper outlines the different areas and transmission channels of how this so-called...

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Dual Economies and International Total Factor Productivity Differences

Chanda, Areendam; Dalgaard, Carl-Johan - EconWPA - 2003

from institutions, and to some extent, geography, on long-run prosperity and TFP, may be thus explained. …

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Land Inequality and the Emergence of Human Capital Promoting Institutions

Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Vollrath, Dietrich - EconWPA - 2005

distribution of land ownership, adversely affected the implementation of human capital promoting institutions (e.g., public …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062436