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Who demands labour (de)regulation in the developing world? : insider-outsider theory revisited
Ronconi, Lucas; Kanbur, Ravi; López-Cariboni, Santiago - 2019
countries support, rather than oppose, protective labour regulations. This evidence holds across countries in different regions …, across different types of protective labour regulations (i.e. severance payment, minimum wages, working time), and for … different categories of outsiders (i.e. unemployed workers and employees without access to legally mandated labour benefits). We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146891
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Behavioural labour economics : advances and future directions
Dohmen, Thomas - 2014
. Since human interaction is germane to labour markets, one would expect behavioural economics to be highly relevant for … labour economics. This paper gauges whether and how behavioural economics has left its mark on labour economics, considers … the timing and structure of this development, and contemplates its future impact on labour economics. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369750
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What makes work meaningful and why economists should care about it
Nikolova, Milena; Cnossen, Femke - 2020
, matters to labour economists. Building on self-determination theory, which specifies the roles of autonomy, competence, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012199176
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Religion and innovation
Bénabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - 2015
In earlier work (Bénabou, Ticchi and Vindigni 2013) we uncovered a robust negative association between religiosity and patents per capita, holding across countries as well as US states, with and without controls. In this paper we turn to the individual level, examining the relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010509962
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(Successful) democracies breed their own support
Acemoglu, Daron; Ajzenman, Nicolas; Aksoy, Cevat Giray; … - 2021
Using large-scale survey data covering more than 110 countries and exploiting within-country variation across cohorts and surveys, we show that individuals with longer exposure to democracy display stronger support for democratic institutions. We bolster these baseline findings using an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012609251
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Happiness, domains of life satisfaction, perceptions, and valuation differences across genders
Milovanska-Farrington, Stefani; Farrington, Stephen - 2021
Happiness is strongly associated with goal attainment, productivity, mental health and suicidal risk. This paper examines the effect of satisfaction with areas of life on subjective well-being (SWB), the importance of relative perceptions compared to absolute measures in predicting overall life...
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Worker self-selection and the profits from cooperation
Kosfeld, Michael (contributor);  … - 2008
We investigate a competitive labor market with team production. Workers differ in their motivation to exert team effort and types are private information. We show that there can exist a separating equilibrium in which workers self-select into different firms and firms employing cooperative...
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Age-dependent employment protection
Chéron, Arnaud (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper examines the age-related design of firing taxes by extending the theory of job creation and job destruction to account for a finite working life-time. We first argue that the potential employment gains related to employment protection are high for older workers, but higher firing...
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Optimal income taxation with endogenous participation and search unemployment
Lehmann, Etienne (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper characterizes the optimal redistributive taxation when individuals are heterogeneous in two exogenous dimensions: their skills and their values of non-market activities. Search-matching frictions on the labor markets create unemployment. Wages, labor demand and participation are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771876
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Econometrics of individual labor market transitions
Fougère, Denis (contributor); Kamionka, Thierry (contributor) - 2005
This survey is devoted to the modelling and the estimation of reduced-form transition models, which have been extensively used and estimated in labor microeconometrics. The first section contains a general presentation of the statistical modelling of such processes using continuous-time...
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