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The welfare costs of job loss and decarbonization - evidence from Germany's coal phase out
Haywood, Luke; Janser, Markus; Koch, Nikolas - 2021
Decarbonizing economies is an enormous task. Public debate often focuses on the job loss of workers in fossil industries. Why is job loss costly? Who is most affected? Can delaying transition reduce welfare costs? What other policy instruments may be available? We present a simple job search...
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The persistence of union membership within the coalfields of Britain
Beynon, Huw; Blakely, Helen; Bryson, Alex; Davies, Rhys - 2020
Spatial variance in union membership has been attributed to the favourable attitudes that persist in areas with an historical legacy of trade unionism. Within the UK, villages and towns located in areas once dominated coalmining remain among the strongest and durable bases for the trade union...
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Job displacement costs of phasing out coal
Rud, Juan Pablo; Simmons, Michael; Toews, Gerhard; … - 2022
The reduction of carbon emissions will require a rapid phasing out of coal and the displacement of millions of coal miners. How much could this energy transition cost mining workers? We use the dramatic collapse of the UK coal industry to estimate the long-term impact on displaced miners. We...
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Real time econometrics
Pesaran, M. Hashem (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Spousal employment and intra-household bargaining power
Antman, Francisca M. - 2014
This paper considers the relationship between work status and decision-making power of the head of household and his spouse. I use household fixed effects models to address the possibility that spousal work status may be correlated with unobserved factors that also affect bargaining power within...
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The city as a self-help book : the psychology of urban promises
Cardoso, Rodrigo V.; Meijers, Evert J.; Ham, Maarten van; … - 2017
Despite the many negative aspects of life in cities, urban promises of economic prosperity, freedom and happiness have fuelled the imagination of generations of migrants, who have flocked to cities in search of a better life, invariably exaggerating the opportunities and neglected the potential...
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Locus of control and the preference for agency
Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Silva … - 2023
We conduct a laboratory experiment to study how locus of control operates through people's preferences and beliefs to influence their decisions. Using the principal-agent setting of the delegation game, we test four key channels that conceptually link locus of control to decision-making: (i)...
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Delving into the demand side : changes in workplace specialization and job polarization
Cortes, Guido Matias; Salvatori, Andrea - 2016
evidence that suggests that the increase in non-routine cognitive workplaces is linked to the growth in outsourcing of …
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The rise of domestic outsourcing and the evolution of the German wage structure
Goldschmidt, Deborah; Schmieder, Johannes F. - 2015
to contracting firms. For this end we develop a new method for identifying outsourcing of food, cleaning, security and … growth of domestic outsourcing in Germany since the early 1990s. Event-study analyses show that wages in outsourced jobs fall … associated with outsourcing stem from a loss of firm-specific rents, suggesting that labor cost savings are an important reason …
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Offshoring to a developing nation with a dual labor market
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; … - 2020
, but not necessarily formal-to-informal outsourcing, and, in response, the developed nation wage can fall. Productivity … improvements in the informal sector expand both offshoring and outsourcing, and the developed nation wage must rise. When the …
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