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Job Characteristics and Labor Turnover: Assessing the Role of Preferences and Opportunities in Teacher Mobility

Bonhomme, Stéphane; Jolivet, Grégory; Leuven, Edwin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Abstract Job characteristics can affect worker turnover through their effect on utility and through their effect on outside job opportunities. We separately identify and estimate the roles of these two channels. Our method exploits information on job changes and relies on an augmented sample...

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Machines and machinists: Capital-skill complementarity from an international trade perspective

Csillag, Márton; Koren, Miklós - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We estimate the effect of imported machines on the wages of machine operators utilizing Hungarian linked employer-employee data. We infer exposure to imported machines from detailed trade statistics of the firm and the occupation description of the worker. We find that workers exposed to...

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Offshoring and the Onshore Composition of Tasks and Skills

Becker, Sascha O.; Ekholm, Karolina; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We analyze the relationship between offshoring and the onshore workforce composition in German multinational enterprises (MNEs), using plant data that allow us to discern tasks, occupations, and workforce skills. Offshoring is associated with a statistically significant shift towards more...

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Productivity volatility and the misallocation of resources in developing economies

Asker, John; Collard-Wexler, Allan; De Loecker, Jan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

total factor productivity (TFP) and static measures of capital misallocation within a country. Using data on 5 … between productivity volatility and the dispersion of the marginal revenue product of capital (static capital misallocation … replicate the observed relationship between static misallocation and volatility observed in the data. We find that sixty …

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Optimal Spatial Taxation: Are Big Cities too Small?

Eeckhout, Jan; Guner, Nezih - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We analyze the role of optimal income taxation across different local labor markets. Should labor in large cities be taxed differently than in small cities? We find that a planner who needs to raise revenue and is constrained by free mobility of labor across cities does not choose equal taxes...

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College Diversity and Investment Incentives

Gall, Thomas; Legros, Patrick; Newman, Andrew - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

This paper studies the aggregate economic effects of diversity policies such as affirmative action in college admission. If agents are constrained in the side payments they can make, the free market allocation displays excessive segregation relative to the first-best. Affirmative action policies...

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Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints

Karlan, Dean S.; Osei, Robert; Osei-Akoto, Isaac; Udry, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

The investment decisions of small-scale farmers in developing countries are conditioned by their financial environment. Binding credit market constraints and incomplete insurance can reduce investment in activities with high expected profits. We conducted several experiments in northern Ghana in...

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Misallocation, Property Rights, and Access to Finance: Evidence from Within and Across Africa

Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Sørensen, Bent E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We study capital misallocation within and across 10 African countries using the World Bank Enterprise Surveys. First …, we compare the extent of misallocation among firms within countries. We document high variation in firms' marginal … of property rights and the quality of the legal system help explain country-level differences in capital misallocation. …

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Demand or productivity: What determines firm growth?

Pozzi, Andrea; Schivardi, Fabiano - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

frictions studied by the literature on factor misallocation. We consider hurdles to firm reorganization as one such friction and …

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Trade liberalization and Embedded Institutional Reform: Evidence from Chinese Exporters

Khandelwal, Amit; Schott, Peter K.; Wei, Shang-Jin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

-liberalization quota allocation is not based on firm productivity. Removing this misallocation accounts for a substantial share of the …

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