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. Judaism in Israel illustrates the outcome in a monopoly experiencing potential competition, possibly leading to an oligopoly … ideas. The "Sacred Canopy" paradigm views it necessary for social stability to grant monopoly power to an official state … religion. The "New Paradigm" views separation of Church and State, leading to competition in the religious marketplace, as …
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This paper investigates whether the minimum wage leads to inefficient job rationing. By not allowing wages to clear the labor market, the minimum wage could cause workers with low reservation wages to be rationed out while equally skilled workers with higher reservation wages are employed. This...
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While it is well known that education strongly predicts health, less is known as to why. One reason might be that education improves health-care decision making. In this paper we attempt to disentangle improved decision making from other effects of education, and to quantify how large an impact...
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perfect competition, the global fields of the dysfunctional market system have mushroomed in what we call Warrant Economics … distorted competition and accelerated economic concentration. We view the income distribution effect, which favours the top 1 …%, and the business concentration effect, which gravitates competition towards oligopolistic/monopolistic industries, as the …
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This paper provides a novel microeconomic foundation for pecuniary human capital externalities in a labor market model … of monopsonistic competition. Multiple equilibria arise because of a strategic complementarity in investment decisions. …
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The social norm of unemployment suggests that aggregate unemployment reduces the well-being of the employed, but has a far smaller effect on the unemployed. We use German panel data to reproduce this standard result, but then suggest that the appropriate distinction may not be between employment...
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capital externalities are at work. A large initial share of high-skilled workers significantly reduces subsequent growth of …
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This paper addresses the questions of what is an economically efficient pension system, what are the externalities and … conclusion is that NDC is neutral in terms of externalities. It manages the risks and eliminates the negative externalities …
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individual preferences and enjoy positive leisure-dependent externalities. For instance, a global sociological change where the …
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In this paper we study the dynamics of local employment growth in West Germany from 1980 to 2001. Using dynamic panel techniques, we analyse the timing of the impact of diversity and specialisation, as well as of the human capital structure of local industries. Diversity has a positive effect on...
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