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Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2021
The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g., pensions and staffing), and/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the...
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Building Political Collusion : Evidence from Procurement Auctions
Coviello, Decio - 2010
We investigate the relationship between the time politicians stay in office and the functioning of public procurement …. To this purpose, we collect a data set on the Italian municipal governments and all the procurement auctions they … of favoritism in repeated procurement auctions, where time reveals collusive types, thus increasing the value of illegal …
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Research Funding and Regional Economies
Goldschlag, Nathan - 2016
Public support of research typically relies on the notion that universities are engines of economic development, and that university research is a primary driver of high wage localized economic activity. Yet the evidence supporting that notion is based on aggregate descriptive data, rather than...
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The Formal Sector Wage Premium and Firm Size
Badaoui, Eliane; Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We show theoretically that when larger firms pay higher wages and are more likely to becaught defaulting on labour taxes, then large high-wage firms will be in the formal sector andsmall low-wage firms will be in the informal sector...
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The Impact of Welfare Reform on LeaverCharacteristics, Employment and Recidivism:An Analysis of Maryland and Missouri
Mueser, Peter R.; Stevens, David W.; Troske, Kenneth R. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
State and federal reforms of the 1990s transformed the U.S. cash assistance program forsingle parents and their children. Despite an extensive literature examining these changesand their impacts, there have been few studies that consider the effects of these reformsfrom the perspective of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861522
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Turning a Blind Eye: Costly Enforcement,Credible Commitment and Minimum Wage Laws
Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; Kanbur, Ravi - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
In many countries, non-compliance with minimum wage legislation is widespread, andauthorities may be seen as having turned a blind eye to a legislation that they havethemselves passed. But if enforcement is imperfect, how effective can a minimum wage be?And if non-compliance is widespread, why...
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A Study of Academic EntrepreneursUsing Venture Capital Data
Zhang, Junfu - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Academic entrepreneurship has become an increasingly important channel through whichuniversities contribute to economic development. This paper studies academic entrepreneursusing a comprehensive venture capital database...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862312
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Education Research and Administrative Data
Figlio, David N. - 2015
Thanks to extraordinary and exponential improvements in data storage and computing capacities, it is now possible to collect, manage, and analyze data in magnitudes and in manners that would have been inconceivable just a short time ago. As the world has developed this remarkable capacity to...
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Occupational Mobility of Immigrants in a Low Skilled Economy : The Spanish Case
Simon, Hipolito - 2011
We analyze the occupational mobility of immigrants between their origin countries and Spain and its determinants. We use microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes to compute an internationally harmonized occupational status index (ISEI) that permits to quantify and properly analyze...
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Monopsony Power, Pay Structure and Training
Muehlemann, Samuel - 2011
Although interest in monopsonistic influences on labour market outcomes has revived in recent years, only a few empirical studies provide direct evidence on it. This paper analyses empirically the effect of monopsony power on pay structure, using a direct measure of labour market 'thinness.' We...
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