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Institutional Features of Wage Bargaining in 23 European Countries, the US and Japan
Du Caju, Philip; Gautier, Erwan; Momferatou, Daphne; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper presents information on wage bargaining institutions, collected using a standardized questionnaire. Our data provide information from 1995 and 2006, for four sectors of activity and the aggregate economy, considering 23 European countries, plus the US and Japan. Main findings include...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566592
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Are Voluntary Agreements Better? Evidence from Baseball Arbitration
Budd, John W.; Sojourner, Aaron J.; Jung, Jaewoo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper empirically examines the widespread belief that voluntarily negotiated agreements produce better long-run relationships than third-party imposed settlements, such as arbitrator decisions or court judgments. Two key outcomes are analyzed – subsequent player performance and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010761634
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The Power of the Family
Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
The structure of family relationships influences economic behavior and attitudes. We define our measure of family ties using individual responses from the World Value Survey regarding the role of the family and the love and respect that children need to have for their parents for over 70...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822814
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Do Ethnic Enclaves Impede Immigrants' Integration? Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Social-Interaction Approach
Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
It is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society. Exploiting the quasi-experimental guest worker placement across German regions during the 1960/70s as well as information on immigrants' inter-ethnic contact networks and social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240233
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Cultural Biases in Migration: Estimating Non-Monetary Migration Costs
Falck, Oliver; Lameli, Alfred; Ruhose, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Ever since Sjaastad (1962), researchers have struggled to quantify the psychic costs of migration. We monetize psychic cost as the wage premium for moving to a culturally different location. We combine administrative social security panel data with a proxy for cultural difference based on...
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On the Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough
Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola; Nunn, Nathan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper seeks to better understand the historical origins of current differences in norms and beliefs about the appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural practices influenced the historical gender division of labor and the evolution and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024584
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Religiosity and Migration: Travel into One's Self versus Travel across Cultures
Aleksynska, Mariya; Chiswick, Barry R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper examines differences in religious behaviors of the native born and immigrants in Europe, measured as self-reported religiosity, frequency of praying, and frequency of church attendance. Using the European Social Survey, we first show that, on average, religiosity of immigrants is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024590
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The Implications of Cultural Background on Labour Market Choices: The Case of Religion and Entrepreneurship
Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We suggest a methodology for identifying the implications of alternative cultural and social norms embodied by religious denomination on labour market outcomes, by estimating the differential impact of Protestantism versus Catholicism on the propensity to be an entrepreneur, on the basis of the...
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Does Culture Affect Divorce Decisions? Evidence from European Immigrants in the US
Furtado, Delia; Marcén, Miriam; Sevilla-Sanz, Almudena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper explores the role of culture in determining divorce decisions by examining country of origin differences in … evidence of the effect of culture. Our results are robust to controlling for several home country variables including average …-ethnics. Supplemental analyses indicate that divorce culture has a stronger impact on the divorce decisions of females than of males …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294832
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Culture, Intermarriage, and Differentials in Second-Generation Immigrant Women's Labor Supply
Gevrek, Z. Eylem; Gevrek, Deniz; Gupta, Sonam - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We examine the impact of culture on the work behavior of second-generation immigrant women in Canada. We contribute to … the current literature by analyzing the role of intermarriage in intergenerational transmission of culture and its … country of ancestry as cultural proxies, we find that culture matters for the female labor supply. Cultural proxies are …
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