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Turf Wars
Herrera, Helios - 2014
Turf wars commonly occur in environments where competition undermines collaboration. We develop a game theoretic model and experimental test of turf wars. The model explores how team production incentives ex post affect team formation decisions ex ante. In the game, one agent decides whether to...
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Election Fraud and Post-Election Conflict : Evidence from the Philippines
Crost, Benjamin - 2013
Previous studies have documented a positive association between election fraud and the intensity of civil conflict. It is not clear, however, whether this association is causal or due to unobserved institutional or cultural factors. This paper examines the relationship between election fraud and...
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Unemployment, Marginal Attachment and Labor Force Participation in Canada and the United States
Jones, Stephen Robert Glenville - 2017
marginally attached displaying behavior lying between unemployment and non-attachment. The three non-employment states are …We analyze changes in unemployment, marginal labor force attachment and participation in Canada and the U.S.. Using two … complementary decompositions, we show the importance for the comparative evolution of aggregate unemployment of changes in the …
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Does Violent Conflict Affect Labor Supply of Farm Households? The Nigerian Experience
Odozi, John Chiwuzulum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2023
Nigeria has experienced bouts of violent conflict in different regions since its independence leading to significant loss of life. In this paper, we explore the average effect of exposure to violent conflict generally on labor supply in agriculture. Using a nationally representative panel...
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Terrorism and Employment : Evidence from Successful and Failed Terror Attacks
Brodeur, Abel - 2015
This paper examines the economic consequences of terror attacks and the channels through which terrorism affects local economies. I rely on an exhaustive list of terror attacks over the period 1970-2013 in the U.S. and exploit the inherent randomness in the success or failure of terror attacks...
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Accounting for Labor Demand Effects in Structural Labor Supply Models
Peichl, Andreas - 2010
When assessing the effects of policy reforms on the labor market, most studies only focus on labor supply. The interaction of supply and demand side is not explicitly modeled, which might lead to biased estimates of potential labor market outcomes. This paper proposes a straightforward method to...
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The Wage-Productivity Gap Revisited : Is the Labour Share Neutral to Employment?
Karanassou, Marika - 2010
investigates its impact on the evolution of employment. Whilst maintaining the assumption of a unitary long-run elasticity of wages … stylised labour demand equation and show that the labour share is a driving force of employment. We substantiate our analytical … exposition by providing empirical models of wage setting and employment equations for France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, the …
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Social Interactions in the Labor Market
Grodner, Andrew - 2011
measure local economic conditions by the county unemployment rate and neighborhood spillover effects by the racial makeup and …
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Labor Market Transparency
Wadensjo, Eskil - 2013
The labor market differs from other markets in many respects. Most important is that those who supply labor also have to deliver it in person. It means firstly that the work environment and organization of work are important for those who deliver labor, since they are in the work place....
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Unreported Labour
Barth, Erling - 2006
Unreported labour by one worker in a firm increases the probability of detection for his fellow workers, not only for himself. The firm takes this external effect into account. As a consequence, unreported work becomes rationed by the firms demand, rather than determined by demand equal supply....
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