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Construction contracts (or : "how to get the right building at the right price?")

Chakravarty, Surajeet (contributor); … - 2006

economics ; incomplete contracts ; construction ; agency theory ; industry studies ; outsourcing ; procurement …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003323165

The impact of city contracting set-asides on black self-employment and employment

Chatterji, Aaron K.; Chay, Kenneth Y.; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2013

In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009727736

Research funding and regional economies

Goldschlag, Nathan; Bianchini, Stefano; Lane, Julia; … - 2016

Public support of research typically relies on the notion that universities are engines of economic development, and that university research is a primary driver of high wage localized economic activity. Yet the evidence supporting that notion is based on aggregate descriptive data, rather than...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517698

Hedonic wage equilibrium : theory, evidence and policy

Kniesner, Thomas J.; Leeth, John D. - 2010

We examine theoretically and empirically the properties of the equilibrium wage function and its implications for policy. Our emphasis is on how the researcher approaches economic and policy questions when there is labor market heterogeneity leading to a set of wages. We focus on the application...

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Partial identification of willingness-to-pay using shape restrictions with an application to the value of a statistical life

Sojourner, Aaron J. - 2010

Economists often analyze cross-sectional data to estimate the value people implicit place on attributes of goods using hedonic methods. Usually strong enough assumptions are made on the functional form of utility to point identify individuals' willingness-to-pay (WTP) for changes in attribute...

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Employment protection, technology choice, and worker allocation

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Gautier, Pieter; Wind, Joris de - 2010

Using a country-industry panel dataset (EUKLEMS) we uncover a robust empirical regularity, namely that high-risk innovative sectors are relatively smaller in countries with strict employment protection legislation (EPL). To understand the mechanism, we develop a two-sector matching model where...

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The economic effects of employment protection : evidence from international industry-level data

Micco, Alejandro (contributor); Pagés, Carmen (contributor) - 2006

This paper examines the economic effects of employment protection legislation in a sample of developed and developing countries. By implementing a difference-in-differences test, we lessen the potentially severe endogeneity and omitted variable problems associated with cross-country regressions....

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Household labor supply and home services in a general-equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents

Bredemeier, Christian (contributor); … - 2009

constancy of other groups' hours are optimal reactions to outsourcing labor in home production becoming more attractive to …

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Global sourcing of complex production processes

Schwarz, Christian; Südekum, Jens - 2010

. -- multinational firms ; outsourcing ; intra-firm trade ; offshoring ; vertical FDI …

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An evaluation of the employment effects of barriers to outsourcing

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Marjit, Sugata; Yang, Lei - 2011

Barriers to outsourcing that are being currently implemented in the US effectively tax its companies who "export" jobs … through outsourcing. The objective is to raise domestic employment. Given that many of the important international markets … oligopolistic context. We find that while an outsourcing tax favors domestic workers by causing firms to switch to a greater use of …

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