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Globalization, Wage Polarization, and the Unstable Great Ratio
Cozzi, Guido; Impullitti, Giammario - CESifo - 2014
The US labour market has experienced a remarkable polarization in the 1980s and 1990s. Moreover, recent empirical work has documented a sharp increase in the wealth to income ratio in that period. Contemporary to these inequality trends, the US faced a fast technological catch-up as European...
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Heterogeneous Workers, Trade, and Migration
Heiland, Inga; Kohler, Wilhelm - CESifo - 2013
We argue that the narrative of variety-induced gains from trade in differentiated goods needs revision. If producing differentiated varieties of a good requires differentiated skills and if the work force is heterogeneous in these skills, then firms are likely to have monopsony power. We show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010693468
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Reciprocity Networks and the Participation Problem
Dufwenberg, Martin - 2014
Reciprocity can be a powerful motivation for human behaviour. Scholars argue that it is relevant in the context of private provision of public goods. We examine whether reciprocity can resolve the associated coordination problem. The interaction of reciprocity with cost-sharing is critical....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049219
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Reciprocity Networks and the Participation Problem
Dufwenberg, Martin; Patel, Amrish - CESifo - 2014
Reciprocity can be a powerful motivation for human behaviour. Scholars argue that it is relevant in the context of private provision of public goods. We examine whether reciprocity can resolve the associated coordination problem. The interaction of reciprocity with cost-sharing is critical....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010812485
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Political Participation and the Welfare State
Borck, Rainald - 2018
A large literature has claimed that higher political participation increases welfare spending. In this paper, I review … this literature. I study the theoretical link between participation and redistributive spending. Then, I survey the … empirical literature on the link between education, income and political participation, as well as that between political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912682
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The Making of Cultural Policy: A European Perspective
Ploeg, Frederick Van der - CESifo - 2005
No good comparable data on sizes of cultural sectors of the countries of Europe exist. Still, local and national governments of Europe spend substantial resources on culture and cultural sectors contribute significantly to employment and national income. After briefly describing special features...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765923
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The Gender Imbalance in Participation in Canadian Universities (1977-2005)
Christofides, Louis; Hoy, Michael; Yang, Ling - CESifo - 2009
university participation has been increasing. We use the Linear Probability and Logit models to investigate the determinants of … explaining the rising level of the university participation rate for women and men. The important variables include a time trend … university degree, tuition fees and real income. The increasing gap between the female and male participation rates (15 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583640
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North-South Technology Transfer in Unionised Multinationals
Lommerud, Kjell Erik - 2010
We study how incentives for North-South technology transfers in multinational enterprises are affected by labour market institutions. If workers are collectively organised, incentives for technology transfers are partly governed by firms' desire to curb trade union power. This will affect not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135262
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Wage and Employment Effects of Non-Binding Minimum Wages
Dittrich, Marcus - 2010
Common wisdom holds that the introduction of a non-binding minimum wage is irrelevant for actual wages and employment. Empirical and experimental research, however, has shown that the introduction of a minimum wage can raise even those wages that were already above the new minimum wage. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139416
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Spillover Effects of Minimum Wages : Theory and Experimental Evidence
Dittrich, Marcus - 2011
We study the spillover effects of minimum wages in a laboratory experiment. In a bilateral firm-worker bargaining setting, we find that the introduction of a minimum wage exerts upward pressure on wages even if the minimum wage is too low to be a binding restriction. Furthermore, raising the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120274