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Judge bias in labor courts and firm performance
Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane; Patault, Bérengère; … - 2020
Does labor court uncertainty and judge subjectivity influence firms performance? We study the economic consequences of judge decisions by collecting information on more than 145,000 Appeal court rulings, combined with administrative firm-level records covering the whole universe of French firms....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012304612
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Inequality and poverty in Greece : changes in times of crisis
Andriopoulou, Eirini; Karakitsios, Alexandros; … - 2017
The Greek crisis was the deepest and longest ever recorded in an OECD country in the postwar period. Output declined by over a quarter and disposable income by more than 40%, while the unemployment rate exceeded 27%. The paper explores the effects of the crisis on the level and the structure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732003
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Decomposing poverty in hard times: Greece 2007-2016
Andriopoulou, Eirini; Kanavitsa, Eleni; Tsakloglou, Panos O. - 2020
Greece was inadequate while there was no "benefit of last resort". As a result, the relative position of households with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012236497
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Comparative advantage, segmentation and informal earnings : a marginal treatment effects approach
Arias, Omar (contributor); Khamis, Melanie (contributor) - 2008
This paper employs recently developed econometric models of marginal treatment effects to analyze the relevance of labor market comparative advantage and segmentation in the participation and earnings performance of workers in formal and informal jobs in Argentina. A novel household data set on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793731
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Undocumented worker employment and firm survival
Brown, J. David (contributor);  … - 2009
Do firms employing undocumented workers have a competitive advantage? Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, this paper investigates the incidence of undocumented worker employment across firms and how it affects firm survival. Firms are found to engage in herding behavior, being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794077
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How are firms affected by the crisis and how do they react?
Westergård-Nielsen, Niels C.; Neamtu, Ioana - 2012
The recession started in 2008 constituted a massive shock to consumers and most firms all over the Western World. Firms were hit on their sales and finances. However, little is known on how badly they were hit and how they coped with the difficulties. This paper gives a rare and fairly early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009559177
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Surviving the crisis : foreign multinationals vs domestic firms in Ireland
Godart, Olivier N.; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - 2011
Starting from the observation that all firms in Ireland (foreign and domestic in manufacturing and services industries) were hit by the crisis, the paper asks whether there is a difference in the behaviour of foreign and domestic firms. One hypothesis is that foreign multinationals are less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009311507
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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000
- Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325999
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Instrumental variable estimation of the causal effect of hunger early in life on health later in life
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Pinger, Pia; Schoch, Johannes - 2011
estimation, using data with self-reported periods of hunger earlier in life, with famines as instruments. The data contain … estimation to deal with imperfect recollection of conditions at very early stages of life. The estimated average causal effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009519886
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The effect of unemployment on self-reported health and mental health in Greece from 2008 to 2013 : a longitudinal study before and during the financial crisis
Drydakis, Nick - 2014
-reported health and mental health in Greece. The specifications suggest that unemployment results in lower health and the … periods of high unemployment, suggesting that the unemployment crisis in Greece is more devastating as it concerns more people …. Greece has been more deeply affected by the financial crisis than any other EU country, and this study contributes by …
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