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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector … China and the other BRICS. These differences are down to differences in industrial policy: in China industrial policy …
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Joint Leisure Before and After Retirement: A Double Regression Discontinuity Approach
Stancanelli, Elena G. F.; van Soest, Arthur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In the scant literature on partners' joint retirement decisions one of the explanations for joint retirement is externalities in leisure. In this study, we investigate how retirement affects the hours of leisure together of individuals in a couple. Exploiting the law on retirement age in France,...
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Incentives for Teacher Relocation: Evidence from the Gambian Hardship Allowance
Pugatch, Todd; Schroeder, Elizabeth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We evaluate the impact of the Gambian hardship allowance, which provides a salary premium of 30-40% to primary school teachers in remote locations, on the distribution and characteristics of teachers across schools. A geographic discontinuity in the policy's implementation and the presence of...
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Health Effects of Containing Moral Hazard: Evidence from Disability Insurance Reform
Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Gielen, Anne C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We exploit an age discontinuity in a Dutch disability insurance (DI) reform to identify the health impact of stricter eligibility criteria and reduced generosity. Women subject to the more stringent rule experience greater rates of hospitalization and mortality. A €1,000 reduction in annual...
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Impacts of Unionization on Quality and Productivity: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Nursing Homes
Sojourner, Aaron J.; Frandsen, Brigham R.; Town, Robert J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper studies the effects of nursing home unionization on numerous labor, establishment, and consumer outcomes using a regression discontinuity design. We find negative effects of unionization on staffing levels and no decline in care quality, suggesting positive labor productivity effects....
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Do Criminal Representatives Hinder or Improve Constituency Outcomes? Evidence from India
Prakash, Nishith; Rockmore, Marc; Uppal, Yogesh - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The recent increase in the number of criminally accused politicians elected to state assemblies has caused much furor in India. Despite the potentially important consequences and the widely divergent views, the implications of their elections to state legislative assemblies on constituency-level...
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Policy Discontinuity and Duration Outcomes
den Berg, Gerard J. van; Bozio, Antoine; Costa Dias, Monica - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Causal effects of a policy change on hazard rates of a duration outcome variable are not identified from a comparison of spells before and after the policy change, if there is unobserved heterogeneity in the effects and no model structure is imposed. We develop a discontinuity approach that...
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When the Baby Cries at Night: Inelastic Buyers in Non-Competitive Markets
Calzolari, Giacomo; Ichino, Andrea; Manaresi, Francesco; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We investigate empirically how sellers react to changes in the population of their consumers, identifying the effects of demand composition and demand size with limited information on costs. We show how pharmacists in Italy selectively increase the price of some products when they observe in...
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Social Norms and Mothers' Labor Market Attachment: The Medium-Run Effects of Parental Benefits
Kluve, Jochen; Schmitz, Sebastian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Increasing mothers' labor supply is a key policy challenge in many OECD countries. Germany recently introduced a generous parental benefit that allows for strong consumption smoothing after childbirth and, by taking into account opportunity costs of childbearing, incentivizes working women to...
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In a Small Moment: Class Size and Moral Hazard in the Mezzogiorno
Angrist, Joshua; Battistin, Erich; Vuri, Daniela - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
An instrumental variables (IV) identification strategy that exploits statutory class size caps shows significant achievement gains in smaller classes in Italian primary schools. Gains from small classes are driven mainly by schools in Southern Italy, suggesting a substantial return to class size...
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