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Regulation and UK Retailing Productivity: Evidence from Micro Data

Haskel, Jonathan; Sadun, Raffaella - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

with a lowering of chain TFP by about 0.4% pa, about 40% of the post-1995 slowdown in UK retail TFP growth. The foregone …

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How Does Temporary Agency Work Impact German Agency Workers?

Spermann, Alexander - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

satisfaction, commitment, health, employability, social participation and effects on personal life for agency workers. It is …

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Persistence of Civil Wars

Acemoglu, Daron; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

commitment to not reforming the military in the future. …

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Globalization and Human Capital Formation

Andersson, Fredrik; A. Konrad, Kai - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

This paper compares education investment in closed and open economies without government and with a benevolent government. The fact that the time consistency problem in taxation can make labor mobility beneficial even if governments are fully benevolent - which is known from other contexts - is...

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Consensual and Conflictual Democratization

Cervellati, Matteo; Fortunato, Piergiuseppe; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We study the process of endogenous democratization from inefficient oligarchic systems in an economy where heterogeneous individuals can get involved in predation activities. The features of democracies are shown to be crucially related to the conditions under which democratization initially...

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Privacy, time consistent optimal labor income taxation and education policy

Konrad, Kai A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

Incomplete information is a commitment device for time consistency problems. In the contextof time consistent labor …

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Homeownership and Entrepreneurship: The Role of Commitment and Mortgage Debt

Bracke, Philippe; Hilber, Christian; Silva, Olmo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We study the link between homeownership and entrepreneurship using a model of occupational choice and housing tenure where homeowners commit a fixed budget to mortgage payments. Our model predicts that: (i) mortgage commitments, by amplifying risk aversion, diminish the likelihood that...

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Debt Portfolios

Hintermaier, Thomas; Koeniger, Winfried - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We provide a model with endogenous portfolios of secured and unsecured household debt. Secured debt is collateralized by owner-occupied housing whereas unsecured debt can be discharged according to bankruptcy regulations. We show that the calibrated model matches important quantitative...

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Workplace Performance, Worker Commitment and Loyalty

Brown, Sarah; McHardy, Jolian; McNabb, Robert; Taylor, Karl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

the determinants of a measure of worker commitment and loyalty (CLI) and whether CLI influences workplace performance …. Factors influencing employee commitment and loyalty include age and gender, whilst workplace level characteristics of … importance include human resource practices. With respect to the effects of employee commitment and loyalty upon the workplace …

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Human Capital Investment and Globalization in Extortionary States

Andersson, Fredrik; Konrad, Kai A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

competition therefore reduces hold-up problems of time consistent extortionary taxation, but also introduces incentives that …

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