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We use county-level data on employment and earnings in the restaurant-and-bar sector to evaluate the impact of minimum wage changes on low-wage labor markets. Our empirical approach is similar to the literature that has used state-level panel data to estimate minimum-wage impacts, with the...
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This study examines the impact of 1997 Asian and 2008 Global financial crises on the capital structure of Korean listed companies. Using a data set covering 1,159 Korean listed non-financial firms from 10 industrial sectors over period 1985-2015, the pattern of firms' capital structure before...
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Previous papers tested the validity of the Family Investment Hypothesis (FIH) among immigrants by comparing the labor … credit constraints are binding, then only married immigrants can cross-finance their investment within the family. In order … to a rejection of the FIH in both countries. -- Family investment model ; labor supply …
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We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated …
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The decisions of firms on investment and hiring play a crucial role in business cycle fluctuations. This paper explores … investment costs. It is significant and negatively signed, implying complementarity between investment and hiring. There is a … the investment part of the model is poor if hiring is left out completely or is introduced without the interaction between …
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This paper studies the impact of permanent and transitory shocks to income on parental investments in children. We use … panel data on family income, and an index of investments in children in time and goods, from the Children of the National … partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, but the magnitude of the estimated responses is …
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In this paper we examine the dynamic contributions of capital accumulation, globalisation, and financialisation to the functional-personal income distribution nexus. We analyse the labour share under the prism of monopoly and frictional growth, and disclose the dramatic upward trend in...
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financial markets work, and stress the vital need of preventing financial devices that result in productive investment crowding …
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been more affected by the economic crisis in their capacity to translate R&D investments into productivity. Based on these …
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