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Campos, Nauro F.; Giovannoni, Francesco - 2008

Although the theoretical literature often uses lobbying and corruption synonymously, the empirical literature … associates lobbying with the preferred mean for exerting influence in developed countries and corruption with the preferred one … between bribing and lobbying. We test our predictions using survey data for about 6000 firms in 26 countries. Our results …

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Redistributive politics and market efficiency: an experimental study

Großer, Jens; Reuben, Ernesto - 2009

We study the interaction between competitive markets that produce large but unequally distributed welfare gains and elections through which the poor majority can redistribute income away from the rich minority. In our simple laboratory democracy, subjects first earn their income by trading in a...

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Foreign Direct Investment, Labour Market Regulation and Self-Interested Governments

Palokangas, Tapio - 2003

This document examines foreign direct investment (FDI) when multinationals and labour unions bargain over labour contracts and lobby the self-interested government for taxation and labour market regulation. We demonstrate that right-to-manage bargaining predicts higher returns for FDI than does...

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Government grants, plant survival and employment growth: a micro-econometric analysis

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 2003

In this paper we analyse the impact of governmental grant provision on plant performance. To this end we utilise rich information derived from three data sources for the manufacturing sector in Ireland, where grant provision has been an important part of the industrial policy. We use a matching...

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Where Did They Go?

Frederiksen, Anders; Westergård-Nielsen, Niels Christian - 2002

We study individual job-separations and their associated destination states for all individuals in the private sector in Denmark for the period 1980 to 1995 and account for the cyclical flows. We find that individual and workplace characteristics as well as business cycle effects are important...

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No education, no good jobs? Evidence on the relationship between education and labor market segmentation

Pagés, Carmen; Stampini, Marco - 2007

This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs and self-employment in three Latin American and three transition countries. It looks separately at the markets for skilled and unskilled labor, inquiring if segmentation is an exclusive feature of the latter....

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Earnings mobility in Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela: testing the divergence of earnings and the symmetry of mobility hypotheses

Fields, Gary S.; Duval-Hernández, Robert; Freije, Samuel; … - 2007

This paper examines changes in individual earnings during positive and negative growth periods in three Latin American economies: Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela. We ask whether those individuals who start in the best economic position are those who experience the largest earnings gains or the...

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Are returns to education on the decline in Venezuela and does mission sucre have a role to play?

Gonzales, Naihobe; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2009

There is anecdotal evidence that the standard of living for the educated has fallen in Venezuela over the last few years. This evidence comes as a surprise because after experiencing an economic downturn in 2002 and 2003, Venezuela's economy has boomed (gross domestic product growth has hovered...

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Shoring up Economic Refugees: Venezuelan Migrants in the Ecuadorian Labor Market

Olivieri, Sergio; Ortega, Francesc; Rivadeneira, Ana; … - 2020

Ecuador has become the third largest receiver of the 4.3 million Venezuelans that left their country in the last five years, hosting around 10% of them. Little is known about the characteristics of these migrants and their labor market outcomes. This paper fills this gap, analyzing a new large...

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Are Returns to Education on the Decline in Venezuela and Does Mission Sucre Have a Role to Play?

Gonzales, Naihobe; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

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