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Consumers and the brain drain : product design and the gains from emigration

Kuhn, Peter Joseph (contributor); … - 2008

We consider the welfare effects of skilled worker emigration in a context where skilled labor plays a role in product design. We show such emigration can benefit the residents left behind, even when consumers' tastes exhibit a form of home bias. This is because emigration improves the design of...

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Incidence of strict quality standards : protection of consumers or windfall for professionals?

Kawaguchi, Daiji; Murao, Tetsushi; Kanbayashi, Ryō - 2013

This paper examines the effects of upgrading product quality standards on product and professional labor-market equilibriums when both markets are regulated. The Japanese government revised the Building Standards Act in June 2007, requiring a stricter review process for admitting the plans of...

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Can selective immigration policies reduce migrants' quality?

Bertoli, Simone; Dequiedt, Vianney; Zenou, Yves - 2015 - Forthcoming in: Journal of Development Economics, 2015

Destination countries can adopt selective immigration policies to improve migrants' quality. Screening potential migrants on the basis of observable characteristics also influences their self-selection on unobservables. We propose a model that analyzes the effects of selective immigration...

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Management incentives, signaling effects and the costs of vertical integration

Sliwka, Dirk (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Product demand shifts and wage inequality

Leonardi, Marco (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Strikes, scabs and tread separations : labor strife and the production of defective Bridgestone/Firestone tires

Krueger, Alan B. (contributor); Mas, Alexandre (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Between agora and shopping mall

Falkinger, Josef (contributor) - 2008

of individuals to information. Goods advertising is competing with political information for people's attention. This …, though not in all cases. -- Globalisation ; agenda-setting ; information-rich societies ; scarcity of attention ; advertising …

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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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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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