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Volatility and growth : governments are key
Jetter, Michael - 2013
There exists a persistent disagreement in the literature over the effect of business cycles on economic growth. This paper offers a solution to this disagreement, suggesting that volatility carries a positive direct effect, but also a negative indirect effect, operating through the insurance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010228789
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Ingroup bias with multiple identities: the case of religion and attitudes towards government size
Sgroi, Daniel; Yeo, Jonathan; Zhuo, Shi - 2021
Group identity is known to exert a powerful socio-psychological influence on behaviour but to date has been largely explored as a uni-dimensional phenomenon. We consider the role of multiple dimensions of identity, asking what might happen to ingroup and outgroup perceptions and the resulting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012619799
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The effect of community size on electoral preferences: evidence from Post-WWII Southern Germany
Fiorini, Luciana C.; Jetter, Michael; Parmeter, … - 2020
Populous communities often prefer more government involvement than less populous communities, but does community size per se affect citizens' preferences for government? Endogeneity commonly prevents testing for causal effects because (i) people can select into communities while (ii) government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293729
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Income inequality and the size of government : a causal analysis
Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin - 2018
Expansion of the public sector and redistributive policies may reduce income inequality, but formal tests suffer from the problem of endogeneity of government size with respect to the distribution of income. Studying 30 European countries over the period 2004-2015, we apply instrumental variable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955505
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Patterns of integration : low educated people and their jobs in Norway, Italy and Hungary
Köllő, János - 2013
jobs of different complexity contribute to unskilled employment in Norway, Italy and Hungary. In search of how unqualified …, intense adult training, informal learning and involvement in civil activities. In Italy, workplaces requiring no literacy … Italy) set limits to the inclusion of the low educated. An extreme degree of social isolation is likely to deteriorate their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010194753
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Worker mobility, displacement, redeployment and wage dynamics in Italy
Contini, Bruno (contributor); Villosio, Claudia (contributor) - 2007
"We investigate various stylized facts on wage growth, labor mobility and firm size, to date unexplored in Italy. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003451833
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Absenteeism, unemployment and employment protection legislation : evidence from Italy
Scoppa, Vincenzo; Vuri, Daniela - 2012
Efficiency wages theories argue that the threat of firing, coupled with a high unemployment rate, is a mechanism that discourages employee shirking in asymmetric information contexts. Our empirical analysis aims to verify the role of unemployment as a worker discipline device, considering the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009681422
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Establishment size and the dispersion of wages : evidence from European countries
Lallemand, Thierry (contributor);  … - 2005
We investigate how the wage distribution differs among small and large establishments in four European countries. Findings show that within-establishment wage dispersion rises with size because large employers have a more diverse workforce. They also suggest that screening and monitoring costs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003257499
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Employment protection legislation and the size of firms
Garibaldi, Pietro (contributor); Pacelli, Lia (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001760445
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Defending Gibrat's Law as a long-run regularity
Lotti, Francesca (contributor);  … - 2007
According to Gibrat’s Law of Proportionate Effect, the growth rate of a given firm is independent of its size at the beginning of the period examined. While earlier studies tended to confirm the Law, more recent research generally rejects it. This paper reconciles these two streams of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003583928