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Institutional development and colonial heritage within Brazil

Naritomi, Joana; Soares, Rodrigo Reis; Assunção, … - 2009

This paper analyzes the determinants of local institutions and distribution of political power within a constant 'macro …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269117

Works Councils and Collective Bargaining in Germany: The Impact on Productivity and Wages

Hübler, Olaf; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2001

This paper investigates the interaction between establishment-level codetermination and industry-level collective bargaining in Germany. Based on a simple bargaining model we derive our main hypothesis: In establishments covered by collective bargaining agreements works councils are more likely...

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Good governance and good aid allocation

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2008

We model the aid allocation decision where the donor government has announced that good governance is the criterion for receiving aid. Potential recipients must compete for the aid funds. The structure of the competition is important to the donor in terms of achieving good governance, and to the...

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Contracts as rent seeking devices: evidence from German soccer

Feess, Eberhard; Gerfin, Michael; Muehlheusser, Gerd - 2008

Recent theoretical research has identified many ways how contracts can be used as rent seeking devices vis-à-vis third parties, but there is no empirical evidence on this issue so far. To test some basic qualitative properties of this literature, we develop a theoretical and empirical framework...

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Not Your Lucky Day: Romantically and Numerically Special Wedding Date Divorce Risks

Kabátek, Jan; Ribar, David C. - 2016

Characteristics of couples on or about their wedding day and characteristics of weddings have been shown to predict marital outcomes. Little is known, however, about how the dates of the weddings predict marriage durability. Using Dutch marriage and divorce registries from 1999-2013, this study...

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Home Production of Childcare and Labour Supply Decisions in a Collective Household Model

Turon, Hélène - 2019

This paper proposes a dynamic structural model of labour market and childcare choices for couples within a collective model of decision making. We formalise explicitly the need for childcare as a function of the age structure of the children population in the household then examine the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005849

Further Training and Affective Commitment

Grund, Christian; Titz, Krystina - 2018

We investigate the relation of further training and employees' affective commitment. In doing so, we distinguish … training is associated with the affective commitment of their employees and on the other hand how individual participation in … further training relates to affective commitment. Using the Linked Personnel Panel (LPP), which is a longitudinally linked …

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Privacy, time consistent optimal labor income taxation and education policy

Konrad, Kai A. - 1999

Incomplete information is a commitment device for time consistency problems. In the context of time consistent labor …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262302

Human Capital Investment and Globalization in Extortionary States

Andersson, Fredrik; Konrad, Kai A. - 2001

This paper considers education investment and public education subsidies in closed and open economies with an extortionary government. The extortionary government in a closed economy has incentives to subsidize education in order to overcome a hold-up problem of time consistent taxation, similar...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262447

Globalization and Human Capital Formation

Andersson, Fredrik; Konrad, Kai A. - 2001

This paper compares education investment in closed and open economies without government and with a benevolent government. The fact that the time consistency problem in taxation can make labor mobility beneficial even if governments are fully benevolent – which is known from other contexts –...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262452

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