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Did Cheaper Flights Change the Direction of Science?

Catalini, Christian - 2016

We test how a reduction in travel cost affects the rate and direction of scientific research. Using a fine-grained, scientist-level dataset within chemistry (1991-2012), we find that after Southwest Airlines enters a new route, scientific collaboration increases by 50%, an effect that is...

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Wage Determination in the U.S. Airline Industry : Union Power Under Product Market Constraints

Hirsch, Barry T. - 2021

The paper analyzes wages in the U.S. airline industry, focusing on the role of collective bargaining in a changing product market environment. Airline unions have considerable strike threat power, but are constrained by the financial health of carriers. Since airline deregulation, compensation...

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Employment and Wage Effects of Privatization : Evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Almos - 2021

transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … consistently reject job losses and they never imply large wage cuts from privatization to either foreign or domestic owners. The … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude …

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Workforce Reorganization and the Worker

Kriechel, Ben; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2021

In this paper we study the joint decision process of changing the structure of jobs and laying off individual workers in a firm that downsizes its workforce. A hierarchical decision model is proposed and estimated using personnel data from a firm in demise comparing the characteristics of the...

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Obstacles on the Road to School : The Impacts of Mobility Restrictions on Educational Performance

Miaari, Sami H. - 2020

This paper examines the impact of mobility restrictions on educational performance in the West Bank over 2000–2006 during the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This conflict is characterized by a system of mobility restrictions enforced through physical barriers such as checkpoints. Using novel...

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Firm-Worker Matching in Industrial Clusters

Figueiredo, Octávio; Guimarães, Paulo; Woodward, … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

In this paper we use a novel approach and a large Portuguese employer-employee paneldata set to study the hypothesis that industrial agglomeration improves the quality of the firmworkermatching process. Our method makes use of recent developments in the estimationand analysis of models with...

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Wages, Rents and Heterogeneous Moving Costs

Krupka, Douglas J.; Donaldson, Kwame - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

The model of compensating differentials in regional labor markets was developed by Roback(1982). The model interprets regional differences in constant quality wages and rents ascompensating firms and residents for inter-regional differences in amenities. The modelassumes that the costs of...

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Industry Churning and the Evolution of Cities:Evidence for Germany

Findeisen, Sebastian; Südekum, Jens - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

In this paper we show that the recent model by Duranton (AER, 2007) performs remarkablywell in replicating the city size distribution of West Germany, much better than the simplerank-size rule known as Zipf´s law. The main mechanism of this theoretical framework is thechurning of industries...

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A Simple Theory of Industry Location andResidence Choice

Borck, Rainald; Pflüger, Michael; Wrede, Matthias - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper provides a simple theory of geographical mobility which simultaneously explainspeoples choice of residences in space and the location of industry. Residences are chosenon the basis of the utility which mobile households obtain across locations...

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Labor Market Effects of Trade and FDI : Recent Advances and Research Gaps

Pflüger, Michael - 2010

This paper pursues three aims. First, we provide a review of current theoretical advances which pertain to the relationship between trade, FDI and labor markets. We do so under the following (not mutually exclusive) headings: (1) slicing-up the value added chain and the turn to a task-based...

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