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Family-Friendly Work Practices in Britain: Availability and Perceived Accessibility

Budd, John W.; Mumford, Karen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Using linked data for British workplaces and employees we find a low base rate of workplacelevel availability for five … availability drastically overstate the extent to which employees perceive that family-friendly are accessible to them personally …

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Air Pollution and Infant Mortality: Evidence from the Expansion of Natural Gas Infrastructure

Cesur, Resul; Tekin, Erdal; Ulker, Aydogan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

One of the consequences of rapid economic growth and industrialization in the developing world has been deterioration in environmental conditions and air quality. While air pollution is a serious threat to health in most developing countries, environmental regulations are rare and the...

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The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors

Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...

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Rent Building, Rent Sharing: A Panel Country-Industry Empirical Analysis

Askenazy, Philippe; Cette, Gilbert; Maarek, Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Through panel estimates using OECD country-industry statistics, this paper aims to clarify the determinants of rent creation and the mechanisms of rent sharing, and the role of market regulations in these processes. The empirical analysis is carried out in two steps. The first explains the rent...

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Did the National Minimum Wage Affect UK Prices?

Wadsworth, Jonathan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

wage workers could pass on any resulting higher labour costs in the form of higher prices. This study looks at the effects … of the introduction and subsequent uprating of the minimum wage on the prices of UK goods and services, comparing the … prices of goods produced by industries in which UK minimum wage workers make up a substantial share of total costs with the …

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A Dual Policy Paradox: Why Have Trade and Immigration Policies Always Differed in Labor-Scarce Economies?

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Today's labor-scarce economies have open trade and closed immigration policies, while a century ago they had just the opposite, open immigration and closed trade policies. Why the inverse policy correlation, and why has it persisted for almost two centuries? This paper seeks answers to this dual...

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Public-Private Entanglement: Entrepreneurship in a Hybrid Political Order, the Case of Lebanon

Stel, Nora; Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

' access to electricity in Lebanon. Using quantitative and qualitative methods we find that political connections significantly … entrepreneurs engage in bribery, and who obtain government contracts alleviate electricity problems and perform better. …

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Intergenerational Transmission of ‘Religious Capital’: Evidence from Spain

Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Neuman, Shoshana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

economic framework of a production function of 'religiosity' where parental inputs serve as factors of production. A sample of …

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Do Changes in Regulation Affect Temporary Agency Workers' Job Satisfaction?

Busk, Henna; Jahn, Elke J.; Singer, Christine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This paper evaluates the impact on temporary agency workers’ job satisfaction of a reform that considerably changed regulations covering the temporary help service sector in Germany. We isolate the causal effect of this reform by combining a difference-in-difference and matching approach and...

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What Are Over-the-Road Truckers Paid For? Evidence from an Exogenous Regulatory Change on the Role of Social Comparisons and Work Organization in Wage Determination

Burks, Stephen V.; Guy, Frederick - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

economic deregulation. Road driver output is individualized, and pay is on the basis of a piece rate (mileage). However, road … deregulation and union coverage fell slowly, while in TL both the union differential and union coverage fell sharply. We review … relevant theoretical explanations: payment for cognitive abilities or non-pecuniary disamenities; standard efficiency wage …

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