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Total Work, Gender and Social Norms
Burda, Michael C; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Weil, Philippe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
facts do not arise from gender differences in the price of time (as measured by market wages), as women’s total work is … arise from differences in marital bargaining, as gender equality is not associated with marital status; nor do they stem … from family norms, since most of the variance in the gender total work difference is due to within-couple differences. We …
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Children, Kitchen, Church: Does Ethnicity Matter?
Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labour supply. This paper examines the strength of those …
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Unions And The Labour Market For Managers
Dinardo, John; Hallock, Kevin F; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
We examine the relationship between the employment and compensation of managers and CEOs and the presence of a … monitoring, which requires more managers. The model also assumes rent sharing between workers, managers and the owners of the … firm. Unions, by redistributing rents towards the workers, lead to lower employment and lower pay for managers. Using a …
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How Does Investing in Cheap Labour Countries Affect Performance at Home? France and Italy
Barba Navaretti, Giorgio; Castellani, Davide; Disdier, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
Transferring low tech manufacturing jobs to cheap labour countries is often seen by part of the general public and policy makers as a step into the de-industrialisation of the European economies. However, several recent contributions have shown that the effects on home economies are rarely...
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Investments Abroad and Performance at Home: Evidence from Italian Multinationals
Barba Navaretti, Giorgio; Castellani, Davide - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
Foreign activities of MNEs have important effects on home economies. The debate is ambiguous: concerns that foreign investments deplete domestic economies are often coupled with the pride for doing good business in foreign countries. This Paper addresses this question by defining the appropriate...
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Do German Welfare-to-Work Programmes Reduce Welfare and Increase Work?
Huber, Martin; Lechner, Michael; Walter, Thomas; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Many Western economies have reformed their welfare systems with the aim of activating welfare recipients by increasing welfare-to-work programmes and job search enforcement. We evaluate the three most important German welfare-to-work programmes implemented after a major reform in January 2005...
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Growth and Risk at the Industry Level: the Real Effects of Financial Liberalization
Levchenko, Andrei A.; Rancière, Romain; Thoenig, Mathias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This paper analyzes the effects of financial liberalization on growth and volatility at the industry level in a large sample of countries. We estimate the impact of liberalization on production, employment, firm entry, capital accumulation, and productivity, using both de facto and de jure...
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Grant Support and Exporting Activity
Görg, Holger; Henry, Michael; Strobl, Eric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
This paper investigates whether government support can act to increase exporting activity. We use a uniquely rich data set on Irish manufacturing plants and employ an empirical strategy that combines a non-parametric matching procedure with a difference-in-differences estimator in order to deal...
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Marriage as a Rat Race: Noisy Pre-Marital Investments with Assortative Matching
Bhaskar, Venkataraman; Hopkins, Ed - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
-efficiency. Our model can be used for examine several implications of gender differences. For example, if shocks are more variable for …
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Gender Differences in Performance in Competitive Environments: Evidence from Professional Tennis Players
Paserman, M. Daniele - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
This paper uses data from nine tennis Grand Slam tournaments played between 2005 and 2007 to assess whether men and women respond differently to competitive pressure in a setting with large monetary rewards. In particular, it asks whether the quality of the game deteriorates as the stakes become...
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