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Interactions Between Workers and the Technology ofProduction: Evidence from Professional Baseball
Gould, Eric D.; Winter, Eyal - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper examines how the effort choices of workers within the same firm interact witheach other. In contrast to the existing literature, we show that workers can affect theproductivity of their co-workers based on income maximization considerations, rather thanrelying on behavioral...
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Rising Concentration and Wage Inequality
Cortes, Guido Matias - 2020
Wage inequality has risen in many countries over recent decades. At the same time, production has become increasingly concentrated in a small number of firms. In this paper, we show that these two phenomena are linked. Theoretically, we show that shocks that increase concentration will also lead...
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Fiscal Zoning, Sales Taxes, and Employment : Do Higher Sales Taxes Lead to More Jobs in Retailing and Fewer Jobs in Manufacturing?
Burnes, Daria - 2012
We test the hypothesis that local government officials in jurisdictions that have higher local sales taxes are more likely to use fiscal zoning to attract retailing. We find that total retail employment is not significantly affected by local sales tax rates, but employment in big box and anchor...
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Taking Chances : The Effect of Growing Up on Welfare on the Risky Behavior of Young People
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2011
We analyze the effect of growing up on welfare on young people's involvement in a variety of social and health risks. Young people in welfare families are much more likely to take both social and health risks. Much of the apparent link between family welfare history and risk taking disappears,...
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Corruption, Shadow Economy and Income Inequality : Evidence from Asia
Kar, Saibal - 2013
A number of recent studies for Latin America show that as the size of the informal economy grows, corruption is less harmful to inequality. We investigate if this relationship is equally compelling for developing countries in Asia where corruption, inequality and shadow economies are...
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Rebalancing Growth in Asia
Prasad, Eswar S. - 2009
growth rates for the key emerging markets and other developing economies in Asia. China has by far the lowest share of … growth. Investment growth has dominated GDP growth in China during this decade but is also important in the cases of India …-08, household saving rates (relative to household income) have risen gradually in China and India but fallen sharply in Korea …
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Transmission of US and EU Economic Policy Uncertainty Shock to Asian Economies in Bad and Good Times
Balcilar, Mehmet - 2020
This study empirically examines the fragility of five major Asian economies (China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, and South … asymmetric effect on macro variables of China, Hong Kong, and South Korea during the quantitative easing period (QE) and the …
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Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions
Arcidiacono, Peter - 2020
Detecting racial discrimination using observational data is challenging because of the presence of unobservables that may be correlated with race. Using data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard case, we estimate discrimination in a setting where this concern is mitigated. Namely, we show that...
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The Effect of Divorce Laws on Divorce Rates in Europe
Gonzalez, Libertad - 2006
This paper analyzes a panel of 18 European countries spanning from 1950 to 2003 to examine the extent to which the legal reforms leading to easier divorce that took place during the second half of the 20th century have contributed to the increase in divorce rates across Europe. We use a...
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Education, Governance, Trade and Distance : Impact on Technology Diffusion and the East Asia-Latin America Productivity Gap
Schiff, Maurice - 2017
This paper examines the impact of education, trade, governance and distance on technology diffusion and TFP in Latin America – specifically South America and Mexico (SAM) – and East Asia, over the 32 years preceding the Great Recession (1976–2007). Findings are: i) TFP rises with...
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