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The value of sick pay
Adams, Abi; Boneva, Teodora; Golin, Marta; Rauh, Christopher - 2021
Not all countries provide universal access to publicly funded paid sick pay. Amongst countries that do, compensation rates can be low and coverage incomplete. This leaves a significant role for employer-provided paid sick pay in many countries. In this paper, we study who has access to...
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Macroeconomic policy lessons of labor market frictions
Yashiv, Eran - 2002
The paper explores the consequences of macroeconomic policy for labor market outcomes in the presence of frictions. It … shows how policy may be useful in overriding frictions, as well as how it might generate adverse outcomes. The analysis … looks at the main tools of macroeconomic policy and pertains to both the non-stochastic steady state and to business cycle …
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Smallholders, market failures, and agricultural production: evidence from India
Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2020
Market completeness has important implications for household behavior. I firmly reject complete markets for smallholders but am unable to do so for non-smallholders. This leads to important differences in production behavior: smallholders reallocate labor across activities less in response to...
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Nonunion employee representation : theory and the German experience with mandated works councils
Jirjahn, Uwe; Smith, Stephen C. - 2017
Theories of how nonunion employee representation impacts firm performance, affects market equilibria, and generates externalities on labor and society are synthesized. Mandated works councils in Germany provide a particularly strong form of nonunion employee representation. A systematic review...
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Customary land conversion in African cities
Picard, Pierre M.; Selod, Harris - 2023
We propose an urban land use model to discuss the conversion of customary agricultural land to formal and informal residential land in a developing country city. Because customary land sales are insecure, migrant buyers face a risk of eviction, which affects land markets in non-trivial ways....
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How immigration grease is affected by economic, institutional and policy contexts : evidence from EU labor markets
Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin; Kureková, Lucia Mýtna - 2015
enables us to test this hypothesis across various institutional, economic and policy contexts. Drawing on the EU LFS and EU …
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Recovery performance of primary agriculture credit societies in India : an assessment
Mazumder, Rabin; Chakravarty, Chandrasekhar; Bhandari, … - 2014
Agricultural credit is one of the most crucial inputs in all agricultural development programmes. Access of rural credit has still remained scarce in India. Primary Agriculture Credit Societies (PACS) working at grass-root level, having direct contact with the rural people and meet their...
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Effects of changes in pensions on the age of first benefit receipt : regression discontinuity evidence from repatriated ethnic Germans
Puhani, Patrick A.; Tabbert, Falko - 2015
To estimate the effects of large cuts in pensions on the age of first benefit receipt, we exploit two natural experiments in which such cuts affect a group of repatriated ethnic German workers. The pensions were cut by about 12%, yet, according to our regression discontinuity estimates based on...
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Migration, economic crisis and adjustment in the UK
Clark, Kenneth; Drinkwater, Stephen J.; Robinson, Catherine - 2014
and labour market outcomes are also analysed, including how these relate to changes in the economy and migration policy …
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Neighborhood decline and the economic crisis
Zwiers, Merle; Bolt, Gideon; Ham, Maarten van; Kempen, … - 2014
Neighborhood decline is a complex and multidimensional process. National and regional variation in economic and political structures (including variety in national welfare state arrangements), combined with differences in neighborhood history, development and population composition, makes it...
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