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Home Market Effect versus Multinationals
Toulemonde, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
. The production of each firm increases when trade costs fall. The fall also induces multinationals to repatriate their …
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Does Foreign Direct Investment Affect Wage Inequality? An Empirical Investigation
Figini, Paolo; Görg, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We use a panel of more than 100 countries for the period 1980 to 2002 to analyse the relationship between inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and wage inequality. We particularly check whether this relationship is non-linear, in line with a theoretical discussion. We find that the effect of...
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Domestic Multinationals, Foreign Affiliates, and Labour Demand Elasticities
Godart, Olivier; Görg, Holger; Greenaway, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Using information on a panel of multinational firms operating in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2005, we find that labour demand in domestic multinationals is less sensitive to labour cost changes than in foreign multinationals. This difference in the wage elasticity of labour demand persists...
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Wages and International Rent Sharing in Multinational Firms
Budd, John W.; Konings, Jozef; Slaughter, Matthew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
We use a unique firm-level panel data set of multinational parents and their foreign affiliates to analyze whether profits are shared across borders within multinational firms. Using both fixed-effects and generalized method-of-moments estimators, affiliate wage levels are estimated to respond...
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Estimating the Size of External Effects of Energy Subsidies
Commander, Simon; Nikoloski, Zlatko; Vagliasindi, Maria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
It is widely accepted that the costs of under-pricing energy are large, whether in advanced or developing countries …. This paper explores how large these costs can be by focussing on the size of the external effects that energy subsidies in … (agriculture). Our focus is mainly on the costs associated with congestion and pollution as well the impact of under-priced energy …
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Does Commuting Affect Health?
Künn-Nelen, Annemarie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper analyzes the relation between commuting time and health in the United Kingdom. I focus on four different types of health outcomes: subjective health measures, objective health measures, health behavior, and health care utilization. Fixed effect models are estimated with British...
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Health Behavior and Accident Risk: Obesity Is Associated with the Future Risk of Heavy Truck Crashes among Newly Recruited Commercial Drivers
Anderson, Jon; Govada, Manjari; Steffen, Tricia K.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This study estimates the dose-response relationship between Body Mass Index (BMI) and crash risk in commercial motor vehicle operators. Intake data was collected on 744 new truck drivers who were training for their commercial driver's licenses at a school operated by the cooperating trucking...
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New Estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life Using Air Bag Regulations as a Quasi-Experiment
Rohlfs, Chris; Sullivan, Ryan; Kniesner, Thomas J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Due to Federal regulations, automobile air bag availability was a model-specific discontinuous function of model year for used vehicles in the 1990s and early 2000s. We use these discontinuities and the gradual increase in the supply of air bags to trace out the demand curve for air bags and the...
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Why Do Some Motorbike Riders Wear a Helmet and Others Don't? Evidence from Delhi, India
Grimm, Michael; Treibich, Carole - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We focus on helmet use behavior among motorbike users in Delhi. We use a detailed data set collected for the purpose of the study. To guide our empirical analysis, we rely on a simple model in which drivers decide on self-protection and self-insurance. The empirical findings suggest that risk...
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Stress That Doesn't Pay: The Commuting Paradox
Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
People spend a lot of time commuting and often find it a burden. According to economics, the burden of commuting is chosen when compensated either on the labor or on the housing market so that individuals’ utility is equalized. However, in a direct test of this strong notion of equilibrium, we...
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