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Birthplace Diversity and Productivity Spill-Overs in Firms
Böheim, René - 2015
We determine workforce composition and wages in firms in the presence of productivity spill-overs between co-workers. In equilibrium, workers' wages depend on the production structure of firms, own group size, and aggregate workforce composition in the firm. We estimate the wage effects of...
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Longevity Shocks with Age-Dependent Productivity Growth
Heijdra, Ben J. - 2015
The aim of this paper is to study the long-run effects of a longevity increase on individual decisions about education and retirement, taking macroeconomic repercussions through endogenous factor prices and the pension system into account. We build a model of a closed economy inhabited by...
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Getting People into Work : What (If Anything) Can Justify Mandatory Activation of Welfare Recipients?
Molander, Anders; Torsvik, Gaute - 2021
So-called activation policies aiming at bringing jobless people into work have been a central component of welfare reforms across OECD countries during the last decades. Such policies combine restrictive and enabling programs, but their characteristic feature is that also enabling programs are...
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Group Contests with Complementarities in Efforts
Kolmar, Martin; Rommeswinkel, Hendrik - 2021
Usually, groups increase their productivity by the specialization of their group members. In these cases, group output is no longer simply a sum of individual outputs. We analyze contests with group-specific public goods that allow for different degrees of complementarity between group...
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Human Capital Formation and Global Warming Mitigation : Evidence from an Integrated Assessment Model
Carraro, Carlo; De Cian, Enrica; Tavoni, Massimo - 2021
Based on recent empirical evidence, this paper includes human capital and knowledge in an integrated assessment model and it assesses the interplay between innovation, human capital, climate change, and education policies. Results indicate that climate policy stimulates a dedicated form of...
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How to Avoid a Pension Crisis : A Question of Intelligent System Design
Cigno, Alessandro - 2021
Conventional pension systems suffer from a design defect which makes them financially unsustainable, and a source of inefficiency for the economy as a whole. The paper outlines a second-best policy which includes a public pension system made up of two parallel schemes, a Bismarckian one allowing...
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Employment Protection versus Flexicurity : On Technology Adoption in Unionised Firms
Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Straume, Odd Rune - 2021
We analyse how different labour market institutions - employment protection versus flexicurity - affect technology adoption in unionised firms. We consider both trade unions' incentives to oppose or endorse labour-saving technology, and firms' incentives to invest in such technology. We find...
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Globalization and State Capitalism : Assessing Vietnam's Accession to the WTO
Baccini, Leonardo - 2017
What do state-owned enterprises (SOEs) do? How do they respond to market incentives? Can we expect substantial efficiency gains from trade liberalization in economies with a strong presence of SOEs? Using a new dataset of Vietnamese firms we document a set of empirical regularities...
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Direct and Indirect Effects Based on Difference-in-Differences with an Application to Political Preferences Following the Vietnam Draft Lottery
Deuchert, Eva - 2018
provide an empirical application based on the Vietnam draft lottery, where we analyse the impact of the random draft lottery …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012935675
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Reducing Tariffs According to WTO Accession Rules : The Case of Vietnam
Fosse, Henrik Barslund - 2011
When Vietnam entered WTO in 2007 it was granted an accession period up to 2014. During this period tariffs would have … Vietnam has many state-owned enterprises that do not behave in a profit maximizing way. The model simulations show that the … of income will take place among the poor rural households in Vietnam. We propose other tariff reforms that both raise …
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