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The place premium : wage differences for identical workers across the US border
Clemens, Michael A. - 2008
formal-sector wage-earners in 43 countries. The paper then uses five independent methods to correct these estimates for … unobserved differences and introduces a selection model to estimate how migrants' wage gains depend on their position in the … distribution of unobserved wage determinants. Following all adjustments for selectivity and compensating differentials, the authors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521088
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Lobbying and agricultural trade policy in the United States
Gawande, Kishore S. - 2006
"The authors study whether political campaign contributions influence agricultural protection in the United States in the manner suggested by the political economy model of Grossman and Helpman (1994). This is the first attempt to test this model using agricultural data. The authors test the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522241
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The structure of lobbying and protection in U.S. agriculture
Gawande, Kishore S. - 2005
"The author surveys the empirical literature on the political economy of agricultural protection. He uses a detailed data set of agricultural Political Action Committee (PAC) contributions over five U.S. congressional election cycles over the 1991-2000 period to investigate the relationship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522478
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Business environment and the incorporation decision
Demirguç-Kunt, Asli - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523017