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Financial constraints and innovation : why poor countries don’t catch up

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Schnitzer, Monika - 2010

This paper examines micro-level channels of how financial development can affect macroeconomic outcomes like the level of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey...

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Differentiation and performance : an empirical investigation on the incentive effects of bonus plans

Kampkötter, Patrick; Sliwka, Dirk - 2011

It is often claimed that supervisors do not differentiate enough between high and low performing employees when evaluating performance. The purpose of this paper is to study the incentive effects of this behavior empirically. We first show in a simple model that the perceived degree of past...

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The welfare effects of globalization with labor market regulation

Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2015

contributions to the latter's decisions. Both a shift from national to international regulation and a decrease in trade costs …

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Politico-economic causes of labor regulation in the United States : rent seeking, alliances, raising Rivals' costs (even lowering one's own?), and interjurisdictional competition

Addison, John T. (contributor) - 2006

This paper offers an eclectic survey of the political economy of labor regulation in the United States at federal and …

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Analyzing the extent and influence of occupational licensing on the labor market

Kleiner, Morris M.; Krueger, Alan B. - 2011

This study examines the extent and influence of occupational licensing in the U.S. using a specially designed national labor force survey. Specifically, we provide new ways of measuring occupational licensing and consider what types of regulatory requirements and what level of government...

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Origins and consequences of child labor restrictions : a macroeconomic perspective

Doepke, Matthias (contributor); Krueger, Dirk (contributor) - 2007

We investigate the positive and normative consequences of child-labor restrictions for economic aggregates and welfare. We argue that even though the laissez-faire outcome may be inefficient, there are usually better policies to cure these inefficiencies than the imposition of a child-labor ban....

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Regulatory barriers and entry in developing economies

Bennett, John (contributor); Estrin, Saul (contributor) - 2006

We model entry by entrepreneurs into new markets in developing economies with regulatory barriers in the form of licence fees and bureaucratic delay. Because laissez faire leads to 'excessive' entry, a licence fee can increase welfare by discouraging entry. However, in the presence of a licence...

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Employment protection, product market regulation and firm selection

Koeniger, Winfried (contributor); Prat, Julien (contributor) - 2006

This paper analyzes the effect of labor and product market regulation in a dynamic stochastic equilibrium with search …-and-firing (intensive) margin. We characterize analytically how both margins depend on regulation before we calibrate the model to the US … through firm selection. Finally, the opposite effect of product and labor market regulation on job turnover rationalizes the …

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Product market regulation and endogenous union formation

Ebell, Monique (contributor); Häfke, Christian (contributor) - 2006

We contribute to the growing literature which aims to link product market regulation and competition to labor market … moving from the US low regulation-individual bargaining economy to the EU high regulation-collective bargaining economy leads …

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