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A Helping Hand or the Long Arm of the Law? Experimental Evidence on What Governments Can Do to Formalize Firms
de Andrade, Gustavo Henrique - 2013
Many governments have spent much of the past decade trying to extend a helping hand to informal businesses by making it easier and cheaper for them to formalize. Much less effort has been devoted to raising the costs of remaining informal, through increasing enforcement of existing regulations....
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The Demand for, and Consequences of, Formalization Among Informal Firms in Sri Lanka
de Mel, Suresh - 2012
The majority of firms in most developing countries are informal. We conducted a field experiment in Sri Lanka which provided incentives for informal firms to formalize. Offering only information about the registration process and reimbursement for direct registration costs had no impact on...
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Locus of Control and Savings
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2013
This paper analyzes the relationship between individuals' locus of control and their savings behavior, i.e. wealth accumulation, savings rates, and portfolio choices. Locus of control is a psychological concept that captures individuals' beliefs about the controllability of life events and is a...
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Aggregation and Labor Supply Elasticities
Kneip, Alois - 2013
The aggregate Frisch elasticity of labor supply has played a key role in business cycle analysis. This paper develops a statistical aggregation procedure which allows for worker heterogeneity in observables and unobservables and is applicable to an individual labor supply function with...
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Does the Use of Worker Flows Improve the Analysis of Establishment Turnover? Evidence from German Administrative Data
Hethey-Maier, Tanja - 2013
flow methodology using a dataset from Germany, the Establishment History Panel (BHP), merged to information on all worker …
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Non-Standard Employment Across Occupations in Germany : The Role of Replaceability and Labour Market Flexibility
Eichhorst, Werner - 2013
The share of non-standard jobs in total employment has increased in Germany over recent decades. Research tends to … development in Germany is a large occupational heterogeneity, which is true for both current working conditions and trajectories … analyses the role of different types of non-standard employment across occupations in Germany, explaining variation between …
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How Learning a Musical Instrument Affects the Development of Skills
Hille, Adrian - 2013
Despite numerous studies on skill development, we know little about the causal effects of music training on cognitive and non-cognitive skills. This study examines how long-term music training during childhood and youth affects the development of cognitive skills, school grades, personality,...
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The Structure of Hiring Costs in Germany : Evidence from Firm-Level Data
Muehlemann, Samuel - 2013
This paper analyzes the structure of hiring costs of skilled workers in Germany. Using detailed and representative firm …
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Has Atypical Work Become Typical in Germany?
Eichhorst, Werner - 2013
on the changing patterns of labor market segmentation or 'dualization' of employment in Germany. While labor market … duality in Germany can partially be attributed to labor market reforms promoting in particular non-standard forms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075791
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Doing Well in Reforming the Labour Market? Recent Trends in Job Stability and Wages in Germany
Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2013
The German "employment miracle", with a weak decline in employment and low unemployment during the great recession, seems to be a good example for a successful labour market reform. Nevertheless, there are concerns about rising inequality in the labour market. In this paper we analyze the...
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