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When Labor Disputes Bring Cities to a Standstill: The Impact of Public Transit Strikes on Traffic, Accidents, Air Pollution, and Health
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Hener, Timo; Rainer, Helmut - CESifo - 2015
endanger public safety or health. We use time-series and cross-sectional variation in powerful registry data to quantify the …
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The Cost of Binge Drinking
Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan - CESifo - 2015
We estimate the effect of binge drinking on accident and emergency attendances, road accidents, arrests, and the number of police officers on duty using a variety of unique data from Britain and a two-sample minimum distance estimation procedure. Our estimates, which reveal sizeable effects of...
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How Natural is the Natural Rate of Unemployment?
Komlos, John - CESifo - 2014
” employment. As a consequence, endemic un- and underemployment is accepted as an inevitable attribute of the labor market. This is … inaccurate inasmuch as the concept assumes that the institutional structure of the labor market is held constant. However, with … to create an inclusive labor market that distributes the available work in a more equitable fashion than the current …
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Immmigration and Internal Mobility in Canada
Beine, Michel; Coulombe, Serge - CESifo - 2014
suggests that, in general, the impact of immigration on labor market conditions depends critically on the way immigrants are …
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Labour Market Reforms and Outcomes in Estonia
Brixiova, Zuzana; Egert, Balazs - CESifo - 2012
The unemployment rate in Estonia rose sharply in 2010 to one of the highest levels in the EU, after the country entered a severe recession in 2008. While the rate declined relatively rapidly in 2011, it remained high especially for the less educated. In 2009, the Employment Contract Law relaxed...
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Labor Market Policy: A Comparative View on the Costs and Benefits of Labor Market Flexibility
Kahn, Lawrence - CESifo - 2010
I review theories and evidence on labor market policies and institutions in an international context. These include … active labor market policies. Scandinavia and Central Europe follow more interventionist policies than Canada, the UK and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511605
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Labour Market Institutions and their Effect on Labour Market Performance in the New EU Member Countries
Fialová, Kamila; Schneider, Ondrej - CESifo - 2008
This article focuses on the role of labour market institutions in explaining different labour market developments in European countries, with a special attention to the new European Union member countries. This may allow us to analyse effects of various institutional setups and of their changes...
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Active Labor Market Policy Evaluations: A Meta-analysis
Card, David; Kluve, Jochen; Weber, Andrea - CESifo - 2009
This paper presents a meta-analysis of recent microeconometric evaluations of active labor market policies. Our sample …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051502
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How Much Sunlight Does it Take to Disinfect a Boardroom? A Short History of Executive Compensation Regulation
Dew-Becker, Ian - CESifo - 2008
This paper reviews the history of executive compensation disclosure and other government policies affecting CEO pay, and as well surveys the literature on the effects of these policies. Disclosure has increased nearly uniformly since 1933. A number of other regulations, including special taxes...
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Voting in the European Union – Central Europe’s Lost Voice
Schneider, Ondrej - CESifo - 2008
Ten Central European countries became members of the European Union in the years 2004 - 2007. They constitute 20% of the EU’s total population; and even though their economic output is much lower, it rises dynamically. New members’ impact on the EU policies has nevertheless been limited....
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