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Evaluating the Effectiveness of National Labor Relations Act Remedies: Analysis and Comparison with Other Workplace Penalty Policies
Kleiner, Morris M.; Weil, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
The goal of this paper is to examine the implied penalty policies underlying the remedies created by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) in terms of the policies' impact on employer and union behaviors. We present a simple model of deterrence as a means of evaluating workplace penalty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764664
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Measuring International Trade in Services
Lipsey, Robert E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
World trade in services has recently been a little under $US2 trillion, about a quarter of world trade in goods. That ratio does not appear to have changed much in the last 50 years. For the US, exports of services have recently been over 40% and imports about 20% of exports and imports of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085043
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Does Trade Cause Capital to Flow? Evidence from Historical Rainfalls
Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Nikolsko-Rzhevskyy, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Estimating the effect of trade on capital flows is difficult given the inherent identification problem. We use fluctuations in rainfall to capture the exogenous variation in trade between Germany, France, the U.K., and the Ottoman Empire during 1859-1913. The provisionistic policy of the Ottoman...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008634681
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International Trade and Finance under the Two Hegemons: Complementaries in the United Kingdom 1870-1913 and the United States 1920-30
Taylor, Alan M.; Wilson, Janine L. F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
Do international trade and finance flow together? In theory, trade and finance can be substitutes or complements, so the matter must be resolved empirically. We study trade and financial flows from the United Kingdom from 1870 to 1913 and the United States in the interwar years. Trade and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005778287
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A Global View of Economic Growth
Ventura, Jaume - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
This paper integrates in a unified and tractable framework some of the key insights of the field of international trade and economic growth. It examines a sequence of theoretical models that share a common description of technology and preferences but differ on their assumptions about trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005050247
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Dissecting the Effect of Credit Supply on Trade: Evidence from Matched Credit-Export Data
Paravisini, Daniel; Rappoport, Veronica; Schnabl, Philipp; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
We estimate the elasticity of exports to credit using matched customs and firm-level bank credit data from Peru. To account for non-credit determinants of exports, we compare changes in exports of the same product and to the same destination by firms borrowing from banks differentially affected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009001146
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Do Labor Market Policies Have Displacement Effects? Evidence from a Clustered Randomized Experiment
Crépon, Bruno; Duflo, Esther; Gurgand, Marc; Rathelot, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper reports the results from a randomized experiment designed to evaluate the direct and indirect (displacement) impacts of job placement assistance on the labor market outcomes of young, educated job seekers in France. We use a two-step design. In the first step, the proportions of job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969321
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Do On-Line Labor Market Intermediaries Matter? The Impact of AlmaLaurea on the University-to-Work Transition
Bagues, Manuel F.; Labini, Mauro Sylos - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
outcomes holds, AlmaLaurea reduces the individual unemployment probability and improves matching quality. Interestingly, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085356
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Prospective Analysis of a Wage Subsidy for Cape Town Youth
Levinsohn, James; Pugatch, Todd - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
generates high unemployment in equilibrium, we estimate a structural search model that incorporates both observed heterogeneity … share of youth experiencing long-term unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009223326
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New measures of the costs of unemployment: Evidence from the subjective well-being of 3.3 million Americans
Helliwell, John F.; Huang, Haifang - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Using two large US surveys, we estimate the effects of unemployment on the subjective well-being of the unemployed and … the rest of the population. For the unemployed, the non-pecuniary costs of unemployment are several times as large as … still employed, a one percentage point increase in local unemployment has an impact on well-being roughly equivalent to a …
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