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Do Unions Promote Members' Electoral Office Holding? Evidence from Correlates of State Legislatures' Occupational Shares
Sojourner, Aaron J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
, police officers, fire fighters, and construction workers. It holds conditional on differences in observable state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279300
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Construction Contracts (or: "How to Get the Right Building at the Right Price?")
Chakravarty, Surajeet; MacLeod, W. Bentley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
have been successful in the past. In this paper, we study the structure of form construction contracts published by the … bargaining game between the Principal and the Agent. The optimal mechanism corresponding to the AIA construction form is … foundation for a number of the common-law excuses from performance. Finally, the case of form contracts for construction is an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233914
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Immigration and Housing Booms: Evidence from Spain
Gonzalez, Libertad; Ortega, Francesc - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We estimate empirically the effect of immigration on house prices and residential construction activity in Spain over … responsible for 37% of the total construction of new housing units during the period. These figures imply that immigration can … account for roughly one third of the housing boom, both in terms of prices and new construction. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005029646
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On the Wage Growth of Immigrants: Israel, 1990-2000
Eckstein, Zvi; Weiss, Yoram - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
This paper develops a descriptive methodology for the analysis of wage growth of immigrants, based on human capital theory. The sources of the wage growth are: (i) the rise of the return to imported human capital; (ii) the impact of accumulated experience in the host country; and, (iii) the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703527
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The Re-Building Effect of Hurricanes: Evidence from Employment in the US Construction Industry
Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We examine the impact of hurricane strikes on the construction industry in US counties. To this end we use a measure of … employment in construction of a little over 25 per cent. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822310
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What Does the Public Know about Economic Policy, and How Does It Know It?
Blinder, Alan S.; Krueger, Alan B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
-interest, knowledge, and ideology in public opinion formation? And how do people learn about economic issues? Using a new, specially … important. Knowledge about the economy ranks somewhere in between. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822441
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Empowering Women: The Effect of Schooling on Young Women's Knowledge and Use of Contraception
Andalón, Mabel; Williams, Jenny; Grossman, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
direct impact on knowledge and use of contraception. We investigate this issue using information on women in Mexico. In order … females' schooling beyond 6th grade increases their knowledge of contraception during their reproductive years and increases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764620
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(Lack of) Pension Knowledge
Barrett, Alan; Mosca, Irene; Whelan, Brendan J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
the complexity of pensions systems and degrees of myopia. In this paper, we assess levels of knowledge of pensions using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011079237
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Employer's Information and Promotion-Seeking Activities
Epstein, Gil S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
the employer's knowledge (information) regarding the employees' productivity levels on the total time spent by the workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010695868
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Information Technology and the Knowledge Elites
Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
occupation it may harm some workers while benefitting others; and it may either reduce or increase the proportion of knowledge … workers in employment. In my model, knowledge (in a broad sense) is an input into the production function of human capital …-quality one. People differ in their exogenous ability and ability is complementary with the quality of the knowledge input in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762378