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Unemployment and gang crime: could prosperity backfire?
Poutvaara, Panu; Priks, Mikael - 2007
Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent … crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between … property crime and violent crime at work. In the model, non-monetary valuation of gang membership is private knowledge. Thus …
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Polygyny, Inequality, and Social Unrest
Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura - 2020
are related to different dimensions of grievance-inducing and, partly, greed-related inequality, which may occur in … polygynous societies. These dimensions include (i) economic, reproductive and social inequality resulting in relative deprivation … among non-elite men; (ii) inequality within elites when it comes to the distribution of resources and inheritance, both …
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Welfare policy in the presence of unionised labour and internationally mobile firms
Rocha-Akis, Silvia; Schöb, Ronnie - 2010
In oligopolistic industries, increased cost saving opportunities via offshoring have a moderating effect on trade unions. In order to discourage mobile firms from leaving the country, unions accept lower sector wages. In effect, the negotiated wage becomes independent of workers' bargaining...
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The twin effects of globalization: Evidence from a sample of Indian manufacturing firms
Daveri, Francesco; Manasse, Paolo; Serra, Danila - 2010
Employees of globalized firms face a riskier menu of labor market outcomes. They face a more uncertain stream of earnings and riskier employment prospects. However, they may also have stronger incentives to train and upgrade their skills and/or may benefit from more rapid careers. Hence, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274735
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Does China still have a labor cost advantage?
Ceglowski, Janet; Golub, Stephen - 2011
In recent years wages in China have been rising and the yuan has appreciated, potentially eroding China's cost advantage in manufactures. This paper explores the evolution of China's relative unit labor costs in manufacturing over 1998-2009. Between 1998 and 2003 China's unit labor costs fell,...
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Minimum Wage, Trade and Unemployment in General Equilibrium
Marjit, Sugata; Ganguly, Shrimoyee; Acharyya, Rajat - 2020
The path breaking work of Card and Krueger (1993), showing higher minimum wage can increase employment turned the age-old conventional wisdom on its head. This paper demonstrates that this apparently paradoxical result is perfectly plausible in a competitive general equilibrium production...
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Dream Jobs
Mion, Giordano; Opromolla, Luca David; Ottaviano, … - 2020
Understanding why certain jobs are ‘better’ than others and what implications they have for a worker’s career is clearly an important but still relatively unexplored question. We provide both a theoretical frame-work and a number of empirical results that help distinguishing ‘good’...
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Profit Shifting, Employee Pay, and Inequalities: Evidence from US-Listed Companies
Souillard, Baptiste - 2022
anything, see their wages fall in the meantime. Furthermore, the inequality-deepening impact of firm entry into tax havens is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013266685
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Trade and Unions: Can Exporters Benefit from Collective Bargaining?
Capuano, Stella; Hauptmann, Andreas; Schmerer, Jans-Jörg - 2014
Unions are often stigmatized as being a source of inefficiency due to higher collective bargaining outcomes. This is in stark contrast with the descriptive evidence presented in this paper. Larger firms choose to export and are also more likely to adopt collective bargaining. We rationalize...
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Minimum Wage, Trade and Unemployment in General Equilibrium
Marjit, Sugata - 2020
The path breaking work of Card and Krueger (1993), showing higher minimum wage can increase employment turned the age-old conventional wisdom on its head. This paper demonstrates that this apparently paradoxical result is perfectly plausible in a competitive general equilibrium production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841731