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When protection becomes exploitation : the impact of firing costs on present-biased employees
Englmaier, Florian; Fahn, Matthias; Glogowsky, Ulrich; … - 2023
Employment protection harms early-career employees without benefitting them in later career stages (Leonardi and Pica, 2013). We demonstrate that this pattern can result from employers exploiting naïve present-biased employees. Employers offer a dynamic contract with low early-career wages, an...
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The long-term effect of Western customs institution on firm innovation in China
Jin, Gan; Schulze, Günther G. - 2024
industrial firms in China, we show that firms in locations historically affected by the CMC rules exhibit higher innovation … reduce local corruption and stimulate firms' investment in R&D and training to this day. We identify a causal effect by …
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Size, determinants, and consequences of corruption in China's provinces : the MIMIC approach
Chen, Hailin; Schneider, Friedrich; Sun, Qunli - 2018 - 20 July 2018, 6th Version
enforcement and political control are the most important determinants of China's corruption. Additionally, we find that corruption …This paper uses a multiple indicators and multiple causes (MIMIC) model and estimates the extent of corruption in 30 … Chinese provinces from 1995 to 2015. Treating corruption as an unobserved latent variable, the MIMIC results show that both …
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How much does others' protection matter? : employment protection, future labour market prospects and well-being
Lücke, Christine; Knabe, Andreas - 2018
Employment protection legislation (EPL) is an important determinant of workers' perceived future labour market prospects as well as their subjective well-being. Recent studies indicate that it is not only a worker's own level of protection, but also the employment protection of other workers...
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How trade unions increase welfare
Donado Gomez, Alejandro; Wälde, Klaus - 2011
Historically, worker movements have played a crucial role in making workplaces safer. Firms traditionally oppose better health standards. According to our interpretation, workplace safety is costly for firms but increases the average health of workers and thereby the aggregate labour supply. A...
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Trade unions Go global!
Donado, Alejandro (contributor); Wälde, Klaus (contributor) - 2008
Worker movements played a crucial role in making workplaces safer. Workplace safety is costly for firms but increases labour supply. A laissez-faire approach leaving safety of workplaces unknown is suboptimal. Safety standards set by better-informed trade unions are output and welfare...
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Labour market rigidities, financial integration and international risk sharing in the OECD
Fidrmuc, Jarko (contributor);  … - 2007
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Rhineland exit?
Bovenberg, Ary Lans (contributor);  … - 2008
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Willingness to pay for workplace safety
Anelli, Massimo; Koenig, Felix - 2021
This paper develops a revealed-preference approach that uses budget constrain discontinuities to price workplace safety. We track hourly workers who face the decision of how many hours to work at varying levels of Covid-19 risk and leverage state-specific discontinuities in unemployment...
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Industrial robots, workers' safety, and health
Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca; Wang, Tianyi - 2022
This study explores the relationship between the adoption of industrial robots and workplace injuries. Using establishment-level data on injuries, we find that a one standard deviation increase in our commuting zone-level measure of robot exposure reduces work-related annual injury rates by...
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