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A Spatial Analysis of Inward FDI and Rural-Urban Wage Inequality : Evidence from China
Wang, Hao - 2020
When investigating the relationship between inward FDI and rural-urban inequality, previous studies overlook the inter-regional interactions. Building on the literature that highlights the significant role of rural-urban migration in inequality, this article investigates spatial spillover effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834877
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The Urban-Rural Gap in Health Care Infrastructure - Does Government Ideology Matter?
Potrafke, Niklas - 2019
Spatial inequalities in publicly provided goods such as health care facilities have substantial socio-economic effects. Little is known, however, as to why publicly provided goods diverge among urban and rural regions. We exploit narrow parliamentary majorities in German states between 1950 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866397
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Unwilling to Train? Firm Responses to the Colombian Apprenticeship Regulation
Caicedo, Santiago; Espinosa, Miguel; Seibold, Arthur - 2021
We study firm responses to a large-scale change in apprenticeship regulation in Colombia. The reform requires firms to …
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Relational Collusion in the Colombian Electricity Market
Bernasconi, Mario; Espinosa, Miguel; Macchiavello, Rocco; … - 2023
Under collusion, firms deviate from current profit maximization in anticipation of future rewards. As current profit maximization places little restrictions on firms’ pricing behaviour, collusive conduct is hard to infer. We show that bids from certain firms in the Colombian wholesale...
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The Contribution of Short-Cycle Programs to Student Outcomes : Evidence from Colombia
Dinarte, Lelys; Ferreyra, Maria Marta; Melguizo, Tatiana; … - 2023
. We exploit unique administrative data from Colombia on the universe of students, institutions, and programs to control …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014261029
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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 …. Unemployment increases the relative attractiveness of large and less violent gangs engaging more in property crime. …
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Subsidizing extra jobs: promoting employment by taming the unions
Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2007
We study the subsidization of extra jobs in a general equilibrium framework. While the previous literature focuses on symmetric marginal employment subsidies where firms are rewarded when they increase employment but punished when they reduce their workforce, we consider an asymmetric scheme...
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Trends of children's height and parental unemployment: a large-scale anthropometric study on Eastern Germany, 1994 - 2006
Baten, Jörg; Böhm, Andreas - 2008
information on parents' schooling and employment status. Unemployment might have negative psychological effects, with impact on … unemployment was in fact the major driving force. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264283
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Native welfare losses from high skilled immigration
Kemnitz, Alexander - 2008
unemployment insurance scheme. We show that such immigration can create a negative immigration surplus due to adverse effects on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264446
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Outsourcing, unemployment and welfare policy
Keuschnigg, Christian; Ribi, Evelyn - 2008
challenges the two basic functions of the welfare state, redistribution and social insurance when private unemployment insurance … markets are missing. The main results are: (i) outsourcing raises unemployment and labor income risk of unskilled workers; (ii … welfare optimal redistribution and unemployment insurance policies. …
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