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Interacting product and labor market regulation and the impact of immigration on native wages

Prantl, Susanne; Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2014

Does interacting product and labor market regulation alter the impact of immigration on wages of competing native … labor market: one segment without product and labor market regulation, to which standard immigration models best apply, one … segment in which product and labor market regulation interact, and one segment covering intermediate groups of workers. We …

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Privatisation in developing countries : what are the lessons of recent experience?

Estrin, Saul; Pelletier, Adeline - 2016

This paper reviews recent empirical evidence on privatisation in developing countries. Particular emphasis is placed on new areas of research such as the distributional impacts of privatisation. Overall, the literature now reflects a more cautious and nuanced evaluation of privatisation. Thus it...

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Managing intermittency in the electricity market

Ferrasse, Jean-Henry; Neerunjun, Nandeeta; Stahn, Hubert - 2021

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Assessing job flows across countries : the role of industry, firm size and regulations

Haltiwanger, John C. (contributor); … - 2006

This paper reviews the process of job creation and destruction across a sample of 16 industrial and emerging economies over the past decade. It exploits a harmonized firm-level data-set drawn from business registers and enterprise census data. The paper assesses the importance of technological...

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Rent building, rent sharing : a panel country-industry empirical analysis

Askenazy, Philippe; Cette, Gilbert; Maarek, Paul - 2012

, decrease with anti-competitive regulation in upstream sectors and increase with the industry specific output gap; ii) decrease … with the national output gap, increase with the national employment rate and decrease with employment protection regulation …

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The effect of statutory sick pay regulations on workers' health

Halla, Martin; Pech, Susanne; Zweimüller, Martina - 2015

Social insurance programs typically comprise sick leave insurance. An important policy parameter is how the cost of sick leave are shared between workers, firms, and the social security system. We show that this sharing rule affects not only absence behavior, but also workers' subsequent health....

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Regulation and UK retailing productivity : evidence from micro data

Haskel, Jonathan; Sadun, Raffaella - 2009

We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and … productivity works out at about £80,000 per small chain supermarket store. -- Productivity ; retail ; regulation …

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Distribution and growth in an economy with limited needs

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001

This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...

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Inequality and market concentration : new evidence from Australia

Hotchin, Lachlan; Leigh, Andrew - 2024

Are excessively concentrated markets inequitable as well as inefficient? We explore this issue by analyzing the degree of market concentration in the industries where Australia's wealthiest made their fortunes. Compared with the economy at large, we find that top wealth holders have tended to...

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Socioeconomic inequality in low-carbon technology adoption

Burlinson, Andrew; Davillas, Apostolos; Giulietti, Monica - 2023

The widespread consumer adoption of low-carbon technologies (LCTs) is a cornerstone of net zero targets worldwide, however LCTs may not be equally distributed across socioeconomic characteristics. Our paper contributes to the literature by exploring socioeconomic inequality in LCT adoption and...

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