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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 value of worker rights in collective bargaining

Arold, Benjamin W.; Ash, Elliott; MacLeod, William Bentley - 2025

This paper proposes novel natural language methods to measure worker rights from collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) for use in empirical economic analysis. Applying unsupervised text-as-data algorithms to a new collection of 30,000 CBAs from Canada in the period 1986-2015, we parse legal...

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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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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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More than a ban on smoking? : behavioural spillovers of smoking bans in the workplace

Costa-Font, Joan; Salmasi, Luca; Zaccagni, Sarah - 2022

Are workplace smoking bans (WSBs) more than a ban on smoking? We study whether WSBs influence smoking cessation and exert behavioural spillover effects on (i) a set of health behaviours, and (ii) on individuals not directly affected by the bans. Drawing upon quasi-experimental evidence from...

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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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Rhineland exit?

Bovenberg, Ary Lans (contributor); … - 2008

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Labour market rigidities, financial integration and international risk sharing in the OECD

Fidrmuc, Jarko (contributor); … - 2007

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Trade unions Go global!

Donado Gomez, Alejandro (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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