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Product Market Deregulation and the U.S. Employment Miracle
Ebell, Monique - 2006
theoretical contribution is combining a job matching model with monopolistic competition in the goods market and individual wage … bargaining. Product market competition affects unemployment by two channels: the output expansion effect and a countervailing … effect due to a hiring externality. Competition is then linked to barriers to entry. We calibrate the model to US data and …
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Firm dynamics, markup variations, and the business cycle
Jaimovich, Nir; Floetotto, Max - In: Journal of monetary economics 55 (2008) 7, pp. 1238-1252
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What's different among banks ?
Cosimano, Thomas F. - In: Journal of monetary economics 41 (1998) 1, pp. 57-70
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The Economic Impact of Non-Communicable Disease in China and India : Estimates, Projections, and Comparisons
Bloom, David E. - 2013
This paper provides estimates of the economic impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in China and India for the period 2012-2030. Our estimates are derived using WHO's EPIC model of economic growth, which focuses on the negative effects of NCDs on labor supply and capital accumulation. We...
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Economic and political liberalizations
Giavazzi, Francesco; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - In: Journal of monetary economics 52 (2005) 7, pp. 1297-1330
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A Post-Deregulation Analysis of Wages in U.S. Freight Transportation
Habermalz, Steffen; Monaco, Kristen A. - 2021
evidence of increased competition in a subset of labor markets …
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A Positive Analysis of Targeted Employment Protection Legislation
Dolado, Juan Jose; Jansen, Marcel; Jimeno, Juan F. - 2007
In many countries, Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) establishes less strict dismissal procedures for specific groups of workers. This paper builds a simple matching model with heterogeneous workers in order to analyze this feature of EPL. We use the model to analyze the effects of reforms...
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Tax-Benefit Systems in Europe and the US : Between Equity and Efficiency
Bargain, Olivier - 2011
Whether observed differences in redistributive policies across countries are the result of differences in social preferences or efficiency constraints is an important question that paves the debate about the optimality of welfare regimes. To shed new light on this question, we estimate labor...
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Trial and Error? Reelection Concerns and Policy Experimentation During the U.S. Welfare Reform
Bernecker, Andreas - 2015
We study the political economy of policy innovations during the U.S. welfare reform in 1996. Specifically, we investigate how reputation concerns among governors influence the decision to experiment with welfare policies. In line with a political agency model, our empirical results suggest that...
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The Politicized Pandemic : Ideological Polarization and the Behavioral Response to COVID-19
Grimalda, Gianluca; Murtin, Fabrice; Pipke, David; … - 2022
We investigate the relationship between political attitudes and prosociality in a survey of a representative sample of the U.S. population during the first summer of the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that an experimental measure of prosociality correlates positively with adherence to protective...
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