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Migration, the quality of the labour force and economic inequality
Kahanec, Martin (contributor);  … - 2008
efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also … ; income distribution ; human capital ; skill allocation ; migration ; ethnicity ; minority ; Gini-coefficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726798
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Welfare in models of trade with heterogeneous firms
Janiak, Alexandre (contributor) - 2008
I illustrate that the welfare improvement property of the Melitz model is due to the shape of the aggregate labor demand curve, which slopes upwards. By slightly changing some assumptions in the model, this curve may have a negative slope. In this case, increases in aggregate productivity result...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771871
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Understanding Pareto inefficient intrahousehold allocations
Akresh, Richard (contributor) - 2005
Udry (1996) uses household survey data and finds that the allocation of resources within households is Pareto … years, households try to avoid losses from Pareto inefficiency. -- intrahousehold allocation ; collective household models …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003287812
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The effect of employment protection legislation and financial market imperfections on investment : evidence from a firm-level panel of EU countries
Cingano, Federico; Leonardi, Marco; Messina, Julián; … - 2009
This paper analyzes the joint effect of EPL and financial market imperfections on investment, capital-labour substitution, labour productivity and job reallocation in a cross-country framework. In the spirit of Rajan and Zingales (1998) and Ciccone and Papaioannou (2006), we exploit variation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832294
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Resource allocation and firm scope
Friebel, Guido (contributor); Raith, Michael (contributor) - 2006
We develop a theory of firm scope in which integrating two firms into one facilitates the allocation of resources, but …. This effect exists even though with perfect information, centralized resource allocation would improve the managers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003464116
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Cross-country differences in productivity : the role of allocation and selection
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Haltiwanger, John C.; Scarpetta, … - 2009
aggregate performance. -- Firm heterogeneity ; productivity ; allocation of resources ; distortions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003920110
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Accounting for China's growth
Brandt, Loren; Zhu, Xiaodong - 2010
China has achieved impressive growth over the last three decades. However, there has been debate over the sources of the growth, and the role of the intensive versus extensive margin. Growth accounting exercises at the aggregate level (Rawski and Perkins, 2008; Bosworth and Collins, 2008) suggest an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003940472
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Der vormoderne Allokationsprozess von Arbeit in Deutschland
Pierenkemper, Toni; Kendzia, Michael J. - 2010
The paper provides a historical overview of the pre-modern allocation of work within the territory of the later Germany … from the 18th until the middle of the 19th century. We explore how the social allocation of work during the feudal system …-industrial ; allocation of work ; wage labor ; standard employment contract …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003968435
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Employment protection, technology choice, and worker allocation
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Gautier, Pieter; Wind, Joris de - 2010
; sectoral allocation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003959174
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How does financial globalization affect risk sharing? : Patterns and channels
Kose, M. Ayhan (contributor); Prasad, Eswar S. (contributor) - 2007
In theory, one of the main benefits of financial globalization is that it should allow for more efficient international risk sharing. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive empirical evaluation of the patterns of risk sharing among different groups of countries and examine how international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003586563