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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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What have we learned? Assessing labor market institutions and indicators

Eichhorst, Werner; Feil, Michael; Braun, Christoph - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008

"Over the last decade, both the availability of quantitative indicators on labor market institutions and of studies …: first, we provide an overview of the aggregate indicators of core labor market institutions such as employment protection …

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What have we learned? Assessing labor market institutions and indicators

Eichhorst, Werner; Feil, Michael; Braun, Christoph - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537146

International trade and collective bargaining outcomes : Evidence from German employer-employee data

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Hauptmann, Andreas; Schmerer, … - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012

"In theoretical trade models with variable markups and collective wage bargaining, export exposure may reduce the exporter wage premium. We test this prediction using linked German employer-employee data from 1996 to 2007. To separate the rent-sharing mechanism from assortative matching, we...

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International trade and collective bargaining outcomes : evidence from German employer-employee data

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Hauptmann, Andreas; Schmerer, … - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012

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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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Slavery, Institutional Development, and Long-Run Growth in Africa, 1400--2000

Nunn, Nathan - EconWPA - 2004

of its detrimental impact on the formation of domestic institutions, such as the security of private property, the …

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Modelling sustainable human development in a capability perspective

Pareglio, Stefano; Vaglio, Alessandro; Grasso, Marco; … - EconWPA - 2005

decision makers. These responses, in turn influenced by institutions and instrumental freedoms, ultimately affect the dynamics …

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Dual Economies and International Total Factory Productivity Differences

Chanda, Areendam; Dalgaard, Carl-Johan - EconWPA - 2005

exercises indicate that recent findings of the conduciveness of good institutions, and, to some extent trade, on levels of TFP …

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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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