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A Structural Model of Tenure and Specific Investments

Ende, Martin A. van der; Teulings, Coenraad N. - CESifo - 2001

Though a lot of work has been done on the distribution of job tenures, we are still uncertain about its main determinants. In this paper, we stress random shocks to match productivity after the start of an employment relation. The specificity of investment makes hiring and separation decisions...

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Job Insecurity and Children's Emancipation

Becker, Sascha O.; Bentolila, Samuel; Fernandes, Ana; … - CESifo - 2004

The age at which children leave the parental home differs considerably across countries. We present a theoretical model predicting that higher job security of parents and lower job security of children may delay emancipation. We then provide aggregate evidence which supports this hypothesis for...

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Much Ado about Nothing? The Role of Primary School Catchment Areas for Ethnic School Segregation. Evidence from a Policy Reform

Makles, Anna; Schneider, Kerstin - CESifo - 2013

By the 2008/09 school year the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) abolished binding school catchment areas (SCAs) in all municipalities. The reform has been controversial and it was feared that school choice would increase ethnic segregation. Using data on all primary schools, we...

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Pareto-Improving Unemployment Policies

Lingens, Jörg; Wälde, Klaus - CESifo - 2006

We investigate how continental European unemployment can be reduced without reducing unemployment benefits and without reducing the net income of low-wage earners. Lower unemployment replacement rates reduce unemployment, the net wage and unemployment benefits. A lower tax on labour increases...

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Ideological Polarization, Sticky Information, and Policy Reforms

Blumkin, Tomer; Grossmann, Volker - CESifo - 2004

We develop a dynamic two-party political economy framework, in which parties seek to maximize vote share and face the trade-off between catering to their respective core constituencies on the one hand and ‘middle of the road’ voters with no partisan affiliation on the other hand. In contrast...

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International Trade in Natural Resources: Practice and Policy

Ruta, Michele; Venables, Anthony J. - CESifo - 2012

manipulate both international and domestic prices of resources, yet this policy is largely outside the disciplines of the WTO …

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Food Prices and the Multiplier Effect of Export Policy

Giordani, Paolo E.; Rocha, Nadia; Ruta, Michele - CESifo - 2012

This paper studies the relationship between export policy and food prices. We show that, when individuals are loss averse, food exporters may use trade policy to shield the domestic economy from large price shocks. This creates a complementarity between the price of food in international markets...

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Market Access through Bound Tariffs

Sala, Davide; Schröder, Philipp J.H.; Yalcin, Erdal - CESifo - 2009

WTO negotiations deal predominantly with bound - besides applied - tariff rates. But, how can reductions in tariffs …

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Does WTO Membership Make a Difference at the Extensive Margin of World Trade?

Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Kohler, Wilhelm - CESifo - 2007

In his seminal paper, Rose (2004) concluded from a gravity-type study of bilateral trade that the GATT/WTO does not … zero trade and leaves room for WTO membership to promote trade at the extensive margin of trade. Relying on a Tobit … estimation approach, we find that WTO membership has promoted world trade to a larger extent than Rose’s results seem to indicate. …

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Climate Treaties and Approaching Catastrophes

Barrett, Scott - CESifo - 2012

, sustaining only modest cuts in emissions. These results are unaffected by uncertainty about the impact of catastrophe. By … contrast, uncertainty about the catastrophic threshold typically causes coordination to collapse. Whether the probability …

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