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Labor Market Institutions and Unemployment: A Critical Assessment of the Cross-Country Evidence

Glyn, Andrew - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2003

This paper provides a critical view of the cross country literature on the impact of labour market institutions and … policies on the evolving pattern of unemployment in OECD countries. Such widely used indicators as the generosity of … unemployment insurance or the strength of trade unions are neither strongly correlated individually with unemployment nor …

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Price Controls and Consumer Surplus

Klemperer, Paul; Bulow, Jeremy - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2009

The condition for when a price control increases consumer welfare in perfect competition is tighter than often realised. When demand is linear, a small restriction on price only increases consumer surplus if the eleasticity of demand exceeds the elasticity of supply; with log-linear or...

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Discrimination in a universal health system: Explaining socioeconomic waiting time gaps

Keane, Michael; Johar, Meliyanni; Jones, Glenn; Savage, … - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2012

One of the core goals of a universal health care system is to eliminate discrimination on the basis of socioeconomic … status. We test for discrimination using patient waiting times for non-emergency treatment in public hospitals. Waiting …

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An Investment Model of Social Capital with Empirical Application to Women`s Labour Market Outcomes in Urban China

Yueh, Linda Y. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2001

The move to a more market-oriented economy is associated with evidence of increased inequality in the incomes earned by men and women. The context of our study of this question is the recent large-scale reform of the inefficient state sector, which has caused layoffs of urban workers that...

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Committees and Status Quo Bias: Structural Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Quinn, Simon; Gole, Tom - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

When members of a committee have incentives to agree with each other, they over-weight public information: this can generate status quo bias. We test this hypothesis using a novel field experiment - a large debate tournament with random assignment of judges to committees. To analyse our...

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Do employers trust workers too little? An experimental study of trust in the labour market

Falco, Paolo; Caria, Stefano A. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

We conduct a field experiment to investigate employers' trust in workers. A sample of real entrepreneurs and workers from urban Ghana are respectively assigned to the roles of employers and employees. Employers have the option to hire (trust) an employee, who can in turn choose whether to...

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Triggers and Characteristics of the 2007 Kenyan Electoral Violence

Dercon, Stefan; Gutierrez-Romero, Roxana - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2010

Following the 2007 disputed Kenyan Presidential election unprecedented levels of violence erupted across the country adding to the history of troubled elections in Africa. This paper offers quantitative and qualitative evidence on the incidence, impacts and issues that triggered electoral...

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Institutions for Health Care Delivery A Formal Exploration of what Matters to Health Workers Evidence from Rwanda

Lievens, Tomas; Serneels, Pieter - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008

development emphasizes the central role of institutions, surprisingly little work looks at how institutions matter for health …

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What shall we do with the bad dictator?

Willems, Tim; Larcom, Shaun; Sarr, Mare - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2013

Recently, the international community has increased its commitment to prosecute malicious dictators - for example by establishing the International Criminal Court. This has raised the international community's loss associated with being time-inconsistent (i.e.: granting amnesties ex post), the...

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The Geography of Output Volatility

Malik, Adeel; Temple, Jonathan R.W. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2005

of geography and institutions. We investigate the volatility effects of market access, climate variability, the …

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