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Shutdown contests in multi-plant firms and governmental intervention
Kräkel, Matthias - 2010
When a multi-plant firm must close one unit due to declining demand it can choose between two alternatives. On the one hand, the firm can announce a certain span of time in which the plants are evaluated according to relative performance with the least performing plant being shut down in the end...
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Paintings and numbers: an econometric investigation of sales rates, prices and returns in Latin American art auctions
Campos, Nauro F.; Leite Barbosa, Renate - 2008
provenance of the artwork, omitted variables in most previous studies, seem to be more important determinants of the sale price … in predicting whether or not an artwork sells at auction, (3) there is little supporting evidence for the widespread …) there is strong evidence in our data for the declining price anomaly, or afternoon effect. …
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The Changing Profile of Mexican Migrants to the United States: New Evidence from California and Mexico
Cornelius, Wayne A.; Marcelli, Enrico A. - 2000
Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 Mexican migrants to the United States has remained constant. We find that more recent cohorts of migrants: (1) are more likely to settle permanently in the United States, (2)...
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The narrowing of the US gender earnings gap, 1959 - 1999: a cohort-based analysis
Weinberger, Catherine; Kuhn, Peter - 2006
Using Census and Current Population Survey data spanning 1959 through 1999, we assess the relative contributions of two factors to the decline in the gender wage gap: changes across cohorts in the relative slopes of men's and women's age-earnings profiles, versus changes in relative earnings...
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Economic mobility, family background, and the well-being of children in the United States and Canada
Corak, Miles; Curtis, Lori; Phipps, Shelley - 2010
This comparative study of the relationship between family economic background and adult outcomes in the United States and Canada addresses three questions. First, is there something to explain? We suggest that the existing literature finds that there are significant differences in the degree of...
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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010
Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...
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Income mobility of individuals in China and the United States
Khor, Niny; Pencavel, John H. - 2006
Though much has been written about annual income inequality in China, little research has been conducted on longer run measures of income inequality and on income mobility. This paper compares income mobility of urban individuals in China and the United States in the 1990s. The following...
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Is religiosity of immigrants a bridge or a buffer in the process of integration? A comparative study of Europe and the United States
García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - 2012
This study reviews and evaluates the intertwined relationship between immigration and religiosity, focusing on the two sides of the Atlantic - Europe and the United States. Based on the existing literature and on a statistical analysis of several data sets (the International Social Survey...
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The impact of scoring weights on price and quality outcomes: An application to the procurement of welfare-to-work contracts
Koning, Pierre; van de Meerendonk, Arthur - 2012
scoring weights of the quality items result in higher price bids, particularly of WTW-firms that are bidding for the first …
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Charity Auctions : A Field Experimental Investigation
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Holmes, Jessica; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2004
by the first price auction. Our design also allows us to identify differential participation as the source of the … empirically, about the properties of charity auctions. The small theoretical literature suggests that the all-pay auction should … garner more money than winner-pay auctions. We conduct field experiments to test which sealed bid format, first price, second …
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