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Electoral Rules and Corruption
Persson, Torsten; Tabellini, Guido; Trebbi, Francesco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
Is corruption systematically related to electoral rules? A number of studies have tried to uncover economic and social determinants of corruption but, as far as we know, nobody has yet empirically investigated how electoral systems influence corruption. We try to address this lacuna in the...
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Media and Political Persuasion: Evidence from Russia
Enikolopov, Ruben; Petrova, Maria; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
How do media affect voting behavior? What difference can an independent media outlet make in a country with state-controlled media? Our paper addresses these questions by comparing electoral outcomes and votes reported by survey respondents during the 1999 parliamentary elections in Russia for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661897
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Labor Market Policies and European Crises
Bertola, Giuseppe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
This paper studies theoretically and empirically why and how labor policies may reduce productivity and employment in order to stabilize labor incomes and redistribute resources. It proposes a specific stylized model where the tradeoffs facing labor policies are influenced by structural factors,...
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Trends in Quality Adjusted Skill Premia in the US, 1960-2000
Carneiro, Pedro; Lee, Sokbae - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
This paper presents new evidence that increases in college enrollment lead to a decline in the average quality of college graduates between 1960 and 2000, resulting in a decrease of 6 percentage points in the college premium. We show that although a standard demand and supply framework can...
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A new measure of skills mismatch: theory and evidence from the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC)
Fichen, Anne; Pellizzari, Michele - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
This paper proposes a new measure of skills mismatch that combines information about skill proficiency, self …-skilled. The availability of skill use data further permit the computation of the degree of under and over-usage of skills in the … economy. The empirical analysis is carried out using the first wave of the OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), allowing …
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The Effects of Technical Change on Labour Market Inequalities
Hornstein, Andreas; Krusell, Per; Violante, Giovanni L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
In this chapter we inspect economic mechanisms through which technological progress shapes the degree of inequality … among workers in the labour market. A key focus is on the rise of US wage inequality over the past 30 years. However, we … also pay attention to how Europe did not experience changes in wage inequality but instead saw a sharp increase in …
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Competition for attention in the information (overload) age
Anderson, Simon P; de Palma, André - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Limited consumer attention limits product market competition: prices are stochastically lower the more attention is paid. Ads compete to be the lowest price with other ads from the same sector and they compete for attention with ads from other sectors: equilibrium sector ad shares under free...
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The intergenerational transmission of cognitive and non-cognitive abilities
Grönqvist, Erik; Öckert, Björn; Vlachos, Jonas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
We study the intergenerational transmission of cognitive and non-cognitive abilities between parents and sons, using population-wide enlistment data. Conscripts are evaluated at the same age and with comparable methods across cohorts, and we correct for measurement error bias in fathers’...
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Death, Tetanus and Aerobics: The Evaluation of Disease-Specific Health Interventions
Holmes, Jessica; Philipson, Tomas; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995
This paper provides a theoretical and empirical investigation of the positive complementarities between disease-specific policies introduced by competing risks of mortality. The incentive to invest in prevention against one cause of death depends positively on the level of survival from other...
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Don’t Spread Yourself Too Thin. The Impact of Task Juggling on Workers' Speed of Job Completion
Coviello, Decio; Ichino, Andrea; Persico, Nicola - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
We show that task juggling, i.e., the spreading of effort across too many active projects, decreases the performance of workers, raising the chances of low throughput, long duration of projects and exploding backlogs. Individual speed of job completion cannot be explained only in terms of...
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