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The Spread of Anti-Trafficking Policies : Evidence from a New Index
Cho, Seo-Young - 2011
We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and learning or emulation as plausible diffusion mechanisms for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128229
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Democratization and civil liberties : the role of violence during the transition
Cervellati, Matteo; Fortunato, Piergiuseppe; Sunde, Uwe - 2011
This paper investigates the role of violent civil conflicts during the process of democratization for the quality of emerging democracies, and in particular, the protection of civil (political and economic) liberties. A simple theory in which different groups may engage in violent conflict in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009124075
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Labor Market Adjustments after a Large Import Shock : Evidence from the German Clothing Industry and the Multi-Fibre Arrangement
Braakmann, Nils - 2009
This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by the phasing out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement. Using the German shoe industry as a control group and administrative data, we study adjustments on the individual and firm level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153171
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Productivity and Size of the Export Market : Evidence for West and East German Plants, 2004
Wagner, Joachim - 2021
first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading … actor on the world market for manufactured goods. It documents that firms that export to countries inside the euro-zone are … more productive than firms that sell their products in Germany only, but less productive than firms that export to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317178
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Complementarity in Employee Participation Systems : International Evidence
Burdin, Gabriel; Kato, Takao - 2022
seemingly disparate forms of work practices in different parts of the world, we shed light on how participatory work practices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014087460
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Measuring Richness and Poverty : A Micro Data Application to Europe and Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Schaefer, Thilo; Scheicher, Christoph - 2021
demonstrate the application of these new measures to analyze the development of poverty and richness over time in Germany, to … compare Germany to many other European countries and to investigate the impact of tax reforms on poverty and richness. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324879
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Voluntary Employer-Provided Severance Pay
Parsons, Donald O. - 2017
Employer-provided severance pay in the U.S. emerged among salaried workers during the Great Depression as an alternative to modest advance notice and expanded in the late 1950s and 1960s, especially among union (hourly) workers. A variety of sources are employed to estimate variations in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945242
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Are Voluntary Agreements Better? Evidence from Baseball Arbitration
Budd, John W. - 2014
This paper empirically examines the widespread belief that voluntarily negotiated agreements produce better long-run relationships than third-party imposed settlements, such as arbitrator decisions or court judgments. Two key outcomes are analyzed – subsequent player performance and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055232
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Does Voluntary Risk Taking Affect Solidarity? Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Strobl, Renate - 2017
In this study we experimentally investigate whether solidarity, which is a crucial base for informal insurance arrangements in developing countries, is sensitive to the extent to which individuals can influence their risk exposure. With slum dwellers of Nairobi our design measures subjects'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948691
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Covid-19 Employment Status Impacts on Food Sector Workers
Cho, Seung Jin - 2020
Food production and distribution is essential for human well-being, but the food sector has experienced a number of difficulties maintaining worker health and productivity during the COVID-19 pandemic. We examine employment status changes of persons recently employed in the U.S. food sector with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831242