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The Political Resource Curse
Brollo, Fernanda - 2010
politicians, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a version of the career concerns model of political agency with … implications of the theory and identify the causal effect of larger federal transfers on political corruption and the observed … features of political candidates at the municipal level. In accordance with the predictions of the theory, we find that larger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148349
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The Value of Redistribution : Natural Resources and the Formation of Human Capital Under Weak Institutions
Agüero, Jorge - 2017
increases in adult employment and health outcomes of adults and children, as key mechanisms from the redistribution. Policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950918
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Intertemporal Substitution in Labor Force Participation : Evidence from Policy Discontinuities
Manoli, Dayanand - 2010
This paper presents new empirical evidence on intertemporal labor supply elasticities. We use administrative data on the census of private sector employees in Austria and variation from mandated discontinuous changes in retirement benefits from the Austrian pension system. We first present...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136776
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Asymmetric Information between Employers
Kahn, Lisa B. - 2013
Employer learning about workers' abilities plays a key role in determining how workers sort into jobs and are compensated. This study explores whether learning is symmetric or asymmetric, i.e., whether potential employers have the same information about worker ability as the incumbent firm. I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087866
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Excess Turnover and Employment Growth : Firm and Match Heterogeneity
Centeno, Mário - 2009
contrary, large firms adjust their employment levels by reducing entry and not by increasing separations. Most hires and …
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Labour Market Status and Migration Dynamics
Bijwaard, Govert E. - 2009
country after a period of no-income. Employment characteristics and the country of origin play an important role in explaining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154986
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Endogenous Labor Market Participation and the Business Cycle
Haefke, Christian - 2006
extensive-margin labor supply elasticity. A calibration of the model to macro data not only matches employment and participation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780475
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The Changing Nature of Gender Selection into Employment : Europe Over the Great Recession
Dolado, Juan Jose - 2017
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the role played by selectivity issues induced by nonemployment in explaining gender wage gap patterns in the EU since the onset of the Great Recession. We show that male selection into the labour market, traditionally disregarded, has increased. This is...
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Is R&D Good for Employment? Microeconometric Evidence from the EU
Piva, Mariacristina - 2017
employment effect appears limited in magnitude and entirely due to the medium-and high-tech sectors, while no effect can be …
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A Job Ladder Model with Stochastic Employment Opportunities
Bradley, Jake - 2018
standard job ladder model significantly understates the search option associated with employment (and thus underestimates the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911194