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In this paper, we study if exposure to the institutions of trade partners changes individuals' attitudes towards democracy and favors the process of democratization. We combine survey data with country-level measures of democracy from 1960 to 2015, and exploit the improvement in air, relative to...
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In his papers during the lead up to the birth of the European Monetary Union, Obstfeld considered whether the countries forming the EMU were sufficiently similar to survive a single monetary policy--and more importantly, whether they had the capacity to adjust to asymmetric shocks given a single...
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The paper develops a simple three-sector model of a developing country with nominal wage rigidity, in which one sector is thought of as the primary sector and the other two are sectors in which the country can diversify. The paper then analyzes the relationship between the market structure of...
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We study the role of brokers in selection markets. We find broker-clients in the Canadian mortgage market are observationally different from branch-clients. They finance larger loans with more leverage and longer amortization. We build and estimate a model of mortgage demand to disentangle three...
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Dun's Review began publishing monthly data on bankruptcies by branch of business during the 1890s. Those series evolved through many iterations. This essay reconstructs the series from 1895 to 1935 and discusses how it can be used for economic analysis
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-commerce firm's fulfillment centers reduces traditional retail workers' income in geographically proximate counties by 2.4%. Wages … (employment) at proximate stores decrease by 4% (2.1%). Exits, especially of young and small stores, increase, and entry decreases …
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opportunities for substituting wages for employment in response to a change in the slope of the employer's labor demand function …. Larger union locals place greater emphasis on wages versus employment than smaller union locals … amenable to empirical analysis. A characterization of the wage and employment-setting process in unionized markets is adopted …
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greater flexibility in wages, these two countries also exhibit more stable employment behavior over the business cycle. In …This paper argues that rigid wages cannot provide the underpinnings of a universally valid theory of the business cycle …, simply because wages are not universally rigid. Several different statistical techniques suggest that wage rates in the U …
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This paper studies the efficient agreements about the dependence of workers' earnings on employment, when the … employment level is controlled by firms. The firms ' superior information about profitability conditions is responsible for this … form of contract governance. Under plausible assumptions, such agreements will cause employment to diverge from efficiency …
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literature for over thirty years. The wages and employment o typographers are examined to see whether they can be usefully … characterized as the outcome of a process by which the union maximizes an objective function containing wages and employment and is … wages and employment of these workers compared with our more general formulation …
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