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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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003481858

Executive compensation and competition in the banking and financial sectors

Cuñat, Vicente (contributor); Guadalupe, Maria (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Exposure to regulation and income inequality in local labor markets : evidence from the U.S. over the past half-century

Stoyanov, Andrey; Zubanov, Nick - 2025

study fills this gap by measuring local exposure to regulation from the industry-relevant articles of U.S. Code of Federal … Regulation linked to local industry employment structure in 741 commuting zones (CZs) in the U.S. over the period 1970 …-2019. Relating our exposure to regulation measure to the CZ-level income inequality, computed from the Census records, we find that …

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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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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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941706

Slippery fish : enforcing regulation under subversive adaptation

Gonzalez Lira, Andres; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - 2019

Attempts to curb illegal activity through regulation gets complicated when agents can adapt to circumvent enforcement …. Economic theory suggests that conducting audits on a predictable schedule, and (counter-intuitively) at high frequency, can …

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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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Nautical patrol and illegal fishing practices

Kastoryano, Stephen; Vollaard, Ben A. - 2022

We uncover a hidden illegal fishing practice: the use of fishing nets with illegally small mesh size. The small mesh prevents nearly all fish of saleable size from escaping the net, but also traps a large number of fish which are too small to be sold on the market and are therefore discarded at...

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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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Employment protection and product market regulation

Koeniger, Winfried (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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