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Do Works Councils Inhibit Investment?
Addison, John T.; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
(favorable) impact on investment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822189
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The Course of Research into the Economic Consequences of German Works Councils
Addison, John T.; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
In a survey published in the British Journal of Industrial Relations, Frege (2002) evaluates research on the German works council from the perspective of several disciplines, including economics. Ultimately, she concludes that economic analysis of the works council has reached a ‘dead end’....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762185
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The Impact of Oil Revenues on the Iranian Economy and the Gulf States
Dreger, Christian; Rahmani, Teymur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
per capita in oil exporting countries through higher investment activities. This relationship is explored for Iran and the … oil revenues, GDP and investment can be confirmed for all countries. While the cointegration vector is found to be unique … for Iran, long run equations for GDP and investment per capita are distinguished for the Gulf countries. Both variables …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757349
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Musn't Grumble: Immigration, Health and Health Service Use in the UK and Germany
Wadsworth, Jonathan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
A rise in population caused by increased immigration is sometimes accompanied by concerns that the increase in population puts additional or differential pressure on welfare services which might affect the net fiscal contribution of immigrants. The UK and Germany have experienced significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959771
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What Predicts a Successful Life? A Life-Course Model of Well-Being
Layard, Richard; Clark, Andrew E.; Cornaglia, Francesca; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through adult circumstances. We estimate such a model using the British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960126
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Equality under Threat by the Talented: Evidence from Worker-Managed Firms
Burdín, Gabriel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Are high-ability individuals more likely to quit egalitarian regimes? Does the threat of exit by talented individuals restrict the redistributive capacity of democratic organizations? This paper revisits that long-standing debate by analyzing the interplay between compensation structure and quit...
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Happiness, Habits and High Rank: Comparisons in Economic and Social Life
Clark, Andrew E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation...
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The Effects of Childhood Health on Adult Health and SES in China
Smith, James P.; Shen, Yan; Strauss, John; Zhe, Yang; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
In this paper, we model the consequences of childhood health on adult health and socio-economic status outcomes in China using a new sample of middle aged and older Chinese respondents. Modeled after the American Health and Retirement Survey (HRS), the CHARLS Pilot survey respondents are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727770
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Competing on Good Politicians
Galasso, Vincenzo; Nannicini, Tommaso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Is electoral competition good for political selection? To address this issue, we introduce a theoretical model in which ideological parties select candidates between party loyalists and experts, and allocate them into the electoral districts. Non-ideological voters, who care about national and...
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Panic on the Streets of London: Police, Crime and the July 2005 Terror Attacks
Draca, Mirko; Machin, Stephen; Witt, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
In this paper we study the causal impact of police on crime by looking at what happened to crime before and after the terror attacks that hit central London in July 2005. The attacks resulted in a large redeployment of police officers to central London boroughs as compared to outer London – in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703337