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Interactions between Workers and the Technology of Production : Evidence from Professional Baseball
Gould, Eric D.; Winter, Eyal - 2021
This paper examines how the effort choices of workers within the same firm interact with each other. In contrast to the existing literature, we show that workers can affect the productivity of their co-workers based on income maximization considerations, rather than relying on behavioral...
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A New Approach to Testing Marginal Productivity Theory
Biewen, Martin - 2011
We address the long standing question of whether production factors are paid their marginal products. We propose a new approach that circumvents the need to specify production functions and to compare marginal products to factor payments. Our approach is based on a simple equation that directly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118056
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The Selection of Migrants and Returnees in Romania : Evidence and Long-Run Implications
Ambrosini, William - 2012
Romania relatively high rates of temporary migration might have positive long-run effects on average skills and wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104655
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The Impact of an Unexpected Wage Cut on Corruption : Evidence from a 'Xeroxed' Exam
Borcan, Oana - 2012
This paper aims to understand how corruption responds to financial incentives and, in particular, it is an attempt to identify the causal impact of a wage loss on the prevalence of corruption in the education sector. Specifically, we exploit the unexpected wage cut in May 2010 that affected all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104673
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Moroccans', Ecuadorians' and Romanians' Assimilation in Spain
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2012
Using the 2007 Encuesta Nacional de Immigración (ENI), we find that male migrants follow a similar labor and legal assimilation pattern in Spain regardless of their nationality (with Romanians faring worse in terms of legal status but better in terms of employment status at arrival). Among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106298
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Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure in Romania : A Multilevel Analysis
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2014
analyses the determinants of Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure (PACE) at plant level in the case of Romania using … survey data and a Multilevel Regression Model (MRM). Our findings suggest that, although Romania has improved its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069636
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Does Joining the EU Make You Happy? Evidence from Bulgaria and Romania
Nikolova, Milena - 2016
We examine the effect of joining the European Union on individual life satisfaction in Bulgaria and Romania in the … context of the 2007 EU enlargement. Although EU membership is among the most important events in Bulgaria and Romania's modern … life satisfaction in Bulgaria and had a positive but statistically insignificant effect in Romania. One explanation is that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001327
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Evaluating Active Labor Market Programs in Romania
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2006
We evaluate the presence of effects from joining one of four active labour market programs in Romania in the late 1990s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778998
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The Great Chinese Inequality Turnaround
Kanbur, Ravi - 2017
This paper argues that after a quarter century of sharp and sustained increase, Chinese inequality is now plateauing and even turning down. The argument is made using a range of data sources and a range of measures and perspectives on inequality. The evolution of inequality is further examined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960254
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What Works Best for Getting the Unemployed Back to Work : Employment Services or Small-Business Assistance Programmes? Evidence from Romania
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2009
evaluate the relative effectiveness of these two programmes in Romania. While I find that employment services (ES) are, on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012766889