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Policies to Promote Growth and Economic Efficiency in Mexico

Arias, Javier - 2010

heavy burden of monopoly and regulation. We find little evidence that the introduction of social protection programs for …This paper discusses the problems facing the Mexican economy. It operates under a heavy burden of monopoly and … regulation. We focus on two issues that should receive more attention in discussions of Mexican policy. (1) The family is under …

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The Dynamics of Power in Labor Markets : Monopolistic Unions Versus Monopsonistic Employers

Dodini, Samuel; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willén, Alexander - 2022

This paper brings together the modern research on employer power and employee power by empirically examining the effects of unionization on worker earnings, employment, and inequality across differently concentrated markets. Exploiting national tax reforms to union membership dues as exogenous...

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One-Child Policy, Marriage Distortion, and Welfare Loss

Huang, Wei - 2015

Using plausibly exogenous variations in the ethnicity-specific assigned birth quotas and different fertility penalties across Chinese provinces over time, we provide new evidence for the transferable utility model by showing how China's One-Child Policy induced a significantly higher unmarried...

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The Cost of Acting 'Girly' : Gender Stereotypes and Educational Choices

Favara, Marta - 2013

This paper looks at horizontal sex segregation in education as a factor contributing to gender segregation in the labor market. Economic theories fail to explain why women with the same years of schooling and educational attainment as men are under-represented in many technical degrees, which...

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Labour Supply and Commuting

Gutierrez-i-Puigarnau, Eva - 2010

A new paradigm for transport economists has been established: revenues of a welfare-maximising road tax should be employed to reduce the level of a distortionary income tax. An essential modelling assumption to reach this conclusion is that the number of workdays is optimally chosen, whereas...

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Unemployment Dynamics and the Cost of Business Cycles

Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François; Osotimehin, … - 2021

In this paper, we investigate whether business cycles can imply sizable effects on average unemployment. First, using a reduced-form model of the labor market, we show that job finding rate fluctuations generate intrinsically a non-linear effect on unemployment: positive shocks reduce...

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Corruption as a Barrier to Entry : Theory and Evidence

Campos, Nauro F. - 2010

entry (above finance, taxes and regulation) and (b) while bribes' unavoidability is positively related to firm performance …

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The Optimal Minimum Wage with Regulatory Uncertainty

Bennett, John - 2015

For two different regulatory standards, we examine the optimal minimum wage in a competitive labour market when the government is uncertain about supply and demand. Solutions are related to underlying supply and demand conditions, and the extent of uncertainty and of rationing efficiency. We...

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Labor Market Regulation, International Trade and Footloose Capital

Palokangas, Tapio - 2017

regulation to an international agent eliminates that distortion, increasing wages and aggregate welfare …

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Firing Regulations and Firm Size in the Developing World : Evidence from Differential Enforcement

Almeida, Rita - 2015

This paper examines how stringent de facto firing regulations affect firm size throughout the developing world. We exploit a large firm level dataset across 63 countries and within country variation in the enforcement of the labor codes in countries with very different de jure firing...

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