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Expropriation with hukou change : evidence from a quasi-natural experiment
Akgüç, Mehtap; Liu, Xingfei; Tani, Massimiliano - 2014
We study the labor market outcomes of males aged 18-60 obtaining an urban hukou as a result of land expropriation …-à-vis native urbanites. We also find that children of families experiencing a hukou change due to expropriation have similar … investment in human capital as the children of native urban hukou holders. The results confirm the hukou status as a strong …
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Arbitration and mediation : an economic perspective
Manzini, Paola; Mariotti, Marco - 2002
This paper deals with the effects that intermediation has on strategic behaviour in negotiations. To this end, we use the tools of game theory to analyse how different institutional settings can provide specific strategic incentives and thereby condition the outcome of negotiations. We...
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Are voluntary agreements better? : evidence from baseball arbitration
Budd, John W.; Sojourner, Aaron J.; Jung, Jaewoo - 2014
This paper empirically examines the widespread belief that voluntarily negotiated agreements produce better long-run relationships than third-party imposed settlements, such as arbitrator decisions or court judgments. Two key outcomes are analyzed - subsequent player performance and the...
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Hukou changes and subjective well-being
Tani, Massimiliano - 2015
on China, this limitation can be overcome by exploiting exogenous changes in hukou status due to expropriation. The …
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Decolonization, property rights and language conflicts
Dasgupta, Indraneel; Neogi, Ranajoy Guha - 2017
protection leads to high decentralized expropriation. We show that improvements in governance institutions that facilitate …
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The Italian job : match rigging, career concerns and media concentration in Serie A
Boeri, Tito (contributor); Severgnini, Battista (contributor) - 2008
This paper contributes to the literature on competition and corruption, by drawing on records from Calciopoli, a judicial inquiry carried out in 2006 on corruption in the Italian soccer league. Unlike previous studies, we can estimate the determinants of match rigging and use this information in...
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Are all labor regulations equal? : evidence from Indian manufacturing
Ahsan, Ahmad (contributor); Pagés, Carmen (contributor) - 2008
Using manufacturing data for India, this paper studies the economic effects of legal amendments on two types of labor laws: employment protection and labor dispute resolution legislation. We find that laws that increase employment protection or the cost of labor disputes substantially reduce...
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Lab labor : what can labor economists learn from the lab?
Charness, Gary; Kuhn, Peter Joseph - 2010
understanding of principal-agent interactions, social preferences, union-firm bargaining, arbitration, gender differentials …
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Losers and losers : some demographics of medical malpractice tort reforms
Friedson, Andrew I.; Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2011
Our research examines individual differences in the effects of medical malpractice tort reforms on pre-trial settlement speed and settlement amounts by age and most likely settlement size. Findings of note include that, unlike previously assumed, both absolute and percentage losses from tort...
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Dismissal disputes and endogenous sorting
Garibaldi, Pietro; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2015
Dismissal disputes occur mostly in recessions and often lead to long and costly contract termination procedures. This paper investigates how dispute procedures may affect the job-matching process. First we present a simple accounting frame- work that corresponds with general dismissal...
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