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The behavioral, economic, and political impact of the internet and social media : empirical challenges and approaches

Sabatini, Fabio - 2023

This paper presents a review of empirical methods used to assess the behavioral, economic, and political outcomes of Internet and social media usage. Instead of merely surveying the various impacts of the Internet, we examine the methods adopted to identify these impacts. We describe two main...

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The unemployment impact of product and labour market regulation : evidence from European countries

Piton, Céline; Rycx, François - 2018

This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment using data for 24 European countries over the period 1998-2013. Controlling for country-fixed effects, endogeneity and a large set of covariates, results show that product market...

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On the boundaries of the shadow economy : an empirical investigation

Manes, Eran; Schneider, Friedrich; Tchetchik, Anat - 2016

support to this view. We find that in countries with less stringent job market regulation the long-run impact of Unemployment … faster in countries with looser job-market regulation, compared with countries with stricter regulation. These findings have …

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The welfare effects of globalization with labor market regulation

Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2015

contributions to the latter's decisions. Both a shift from national to international regulation and a decrease in trade costs …

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Analyzing the extent and influence of occupational licensing on the labor market

Kleiner, Morris M.; Krueger, Alan B. - 2011

This study examines the extent and influence of occupational licensing in the U.S. using a specially designed national labor force survey. Specifically, we provide new ways of measuring occupational licensing and consider what types of regulatory requirements and what level of government...

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Labour market regulation in the EU-15 : causes and consequences - a survey

Siebert, William S. (contributor) - 2006

efficiency arguments are questionable, because of the disemployment effects of strict regulation. Regulation is better explained … rationally desires strict regulation to divert rent from other groups such as the skilled workers and the unemployed. Legal … tradition. Given a predisposition to intervene, these countries begin with some degree of labour regulation, which then creates …

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Can a supranational medicines agency restore trust after vaccine suspensions? : the case of Vaxzevria

Albanese, Andrea; Fallucchi, Francesco; Verheyden, Bertrand - 2021

Over the first half of March 2021, the majority of European governments suspended Astrazeneca's Vaxzevria vaccine as a precaution following media reports of rare blood clots. We analyse the impact of the European Medicines Agency's (EMA) March 18th statement assuring the public of the safety of...

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The electric telegraph, news coverage and political participation

Wang, Tianyi - 2023

Using newly digitized data on the growth of the telegraph network in America during 1840-1852, the paper studies the impacts of the electric telegraph on national elections. I use proximity to daily newspapers with telegraphic connections to Washington to generate plausibly exogenous variation...

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The shadow economy and shadow economy labor force : what do we (not) know?

Schneider, Friedrich - 2011

tax policies and state regulation, which, if they rise, increase both. Furthermore the discussion of the recent literature … ; shadow labor force ; tax morale ; tax pressure ; state regulation …

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Corruption and the shadow economy : an empirical analysis

Dreher, Axel (contributor); Schneider, Friedrich (contributor) - 2006

; regulation ; tax burden …

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