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Minimum wages and competition : the case of the German roofing sector

Kraft, Kornelius; Rammer,Christian; Gottschalk, Sandra - 2012

This paper analyses the effects of minimum wages on competition in the German roofing sector. The case is particularly interesting since this sector is faced with a uniform minimum wage despite significant regional disparities in productivity and wages. As a control industry we take the plumbing...

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The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Firms' Product and Labor Market Power

Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2020

This paper examines the impact of trade liberalization on firms' product and labor market power. We estimate the prevalence and intensity of firm-level price-cost markups and either wage markups or wage markdowns. We take the dependence between these model-consistent measures of product and...

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The Impact of Regulation on Innovation

Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Van Reenen, John - 2021

Does regulation affect the pace and nature of innovation and if so, by how much? We build a tractable and quantifiable endogenous growth model with size-contingent regulations. We apply this to population administrative firm panel data from France, where many labor regulations apply to firms...

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What drives innovation? : lessons from COVID-19 R&D

Agarwal, Ruchir; Gaulé, Patrick - 2021

To examine the drivers of innovation, this paper studies the global R and D effort to fight the deadliest diseases and presents four results. We find: (1) global pharmaceutical R and D activity-measured by clinical trials-typically follows the 'law of diminishing effort': id est the elasticity...

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Do direct R&D subsidies lead to the monopolization of R&D in the economy?

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Ebersberger, Bernd - 2010

This paper explores the impact of R&D subsidies on the concentration of R&D in an economy. First, governments are often … affects product market concentration. We test the relationship between R&D subsidies and R&D concentration employing treatment … effects models on data of German and Finnish manufacturing firms. The data and estimations allow calculating concentration …

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Latin versus European power : a tale of two market reforms

Mennel, Tim (contributor); … - 2007

This paper compares electricity market reforms in the European Union with reforms in Chile and Brazil. The paradigm of competitive market structures for the electricity sector, as developed in the economics literature, is outlined: competitive markets in generation and retailing and an...

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Spillovers from Conditional Cash Transfer Programs : Bolsa Família and Crime in Urban Brazil

Chioda, Laura - 2014

This paper investigates the impact of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs on crime. Making use of a unique dataset combining detailed school characteristics with time and geo-referenced crime information from the city of São Paulo, Brazil, we estimate the contemporaneous effect of the...

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Estimating the employment and GDP multiplier of emergency cash transfers in Brazil

Cunha, Daniel; Pereira, Joana; Perrelli, Roberto; … - 2022

We estimate the subnational employment and GDP multiplier of Brazil's 2020 federal cash transfers to vulnerable households. Using two-stage least squares regressions we estimate a formal employment multiplier and then apply an analytical transformation to recover an implied GDP multiplier in the...

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The Effect of Job Loss and Unemployment Insurance on Crime in Brazil

Britto, Diogo - 2020

We investigate the effect of job loss and unemployment benefits on criminal behavior, exploiting individual-level data on the universe of workers and criminal cases in Brazil over the 2009-2017 period. We match workers displaced upon plausibly exogenous mass layoffs with...

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Ageing Poorly? Accounting for the Decline in Earnings Inequality in Brazil, 1995-2012

Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2017

The Gini coefficient of labor earnings in Brazil fell by nearly a fifth between 1995 and 2012, from 0.50 to 0.41. The decline in earnings inequality was even larger by other measures, with the 90-10 percentile ratio falling by almost 40 percent. Although the conventional explanation of a falling...

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