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Ownership and pay in Britain
Pendleton, Andrew; Bryson, Alex; Gospel, Howard F. - 2015
Drawing on principal-agent perspectives on corporate governance, this paper examines whether employees' hourly pay is linked to ownership dispersion. Using linked workplace-worker data from the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) 2011, we find average hourly pay is higher in...
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Microentrepreneurs' gender difference in labor demand
Oladipo, Oluwasheyi; Shim, Hyoung Suk - 2022
This paper empirically examines firm owners' gender difference in labor demand. We estimate the average treatment effect (ATE) of female ownership on employment of the firm using the 2007 Survey of Business Owners (SBO) Public Use Micro Sample (PUMS), provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. Because...
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Tracking the herd with a shotgun - why do peers influence college major selection?
Insler, Michael A.; Rahman, Ahmed S.; Smith, Katherine A. - 2021
reassignments of certain student groups into new peer groups, we also explore the reasons why herding occurs. The preponderance of … evidence suggests that social learning, as opposed to network externalities, is the key driver for herding behavior. …
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Relative consumption, working time, and trade unions
Goerke, Laszlo; Hillesheim, Inga - 2013
externality can nevertheless mitigate the resulting distortion. The reason is that wages above the market clearing level are only …
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Inefficient equilibrium unemployment in a duocentric economy with matching frictions
Lehmann, Etienne; Montero Ledezma, Paola L.; Van der … - 2013
job centers. In a decentralized economy job-seekers do not internalize a composition externality they impose on all the …
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Training funds and the incidence of training : the case of Mauritius
Kuku, Oluyemisi; Orazem, Peter F.; Rojid, Sawkut; … - 2015
Training funds are used to incentivize training in developing countries, but the funds are based on payroll taxes that lower the return to training. In the absence of training funds, larger, high-wage and more capital intensive firms are the most likely to offer training unless they are...
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Optimal travel restrictions in epidemics
Shi, Wei; Qiu, Yun; Yu, Pei; Chen, Xi - 2022
Travel restrictions are often imposed to limit the spread of infectious diseases. As uniform restrictions can be inefficient and incur unnecessarily high costs, this paper examines the optimal design of restrictions that target specific travel routes. We propose a model with trade-offs between...
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Alcohol price floors and externalities : the case of fatal road crashes
Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan G. - 2022
In May 2018, Scotland introduced a minimum unit price on alcohol. We examine the impact of this policy on traffic fatalities and drunk driving accidents. Using administrative data on the universe of vehicle collisions in Britain and a range of quasi-experimental modeling approaches, we do not...
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Measuring social and externality benefits of in influenza vaccination
White, Corey D. - 2019
magnitudes. I estimate social and externality benefits of influenza vaccination in two settings. First, using a natural … examine a setting with large potential externality benefits: vaccination mandates for health care workers. I find that the … social benefits of vaccination are substantial, most of benefits operate through an externality, and that the benefits of …
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The accident externality from trucking
Muehlenbachs, Lucija A.; Staubli, Stefan; Chu, Ziyan - 2017
The presence of a heavy truck on the road can impose an externality if accidents occur that would not have otherwise … the road. This negative externality falls on all road users through higher car insurance premiums: one truck, driving for …
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