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-farm enterprises in Malawi, we examine the impact of risk on the allocation decisions of agricultural households as they allocate labor …
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Britain has lagged behind the G7 countries in labour productivity in recent years. There is also an emerging concern about a potential post-Brexit skills deficit. Upskilling the existing workforce via on-the-job training may be a vital policy tool available. Using a panel of organisations and...
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economic efficiency. In contrast, a new strand of research posits that migration restrictions could be not only desirably … Total Factor Productivity) to rich countries – offsetting efficiency gains from the spatial reallocation of labor from low … to high-productivity places. We provide a novel assessment, proposing a simple model of dynamically efficient migration …
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Large international differences in the price of labor can be sustained by differences between workers, or by natural and policy barriers to worker mobility. We use migrant selection theory and evidence to place lower bounds on the ad valorem equivalent of labor mobility barriers to the United...
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financing systems. This paper investigates the impact of these schemes on out-of-pocket spending based on three rounds of … increases outpatient spending with no detectable impact on inpatient services. Furthermore, we find notable heterogeneity in …
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The past several decades have witnessed a rebirth of global labor mobility. Workers have begun to move between countries at rates not seen since before World War One. During the same period, economists' study of international migration has been framed by a particular textbook model of location...
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The elasticities of taxable and broad income are key parameters in tax policy analysis. To examine the large variation … in estimates found in the literature, I conduct a comprehensive meta-regression analysis using information from 51 …
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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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This paper reviews experimental studies that investigate the effects of communication on behavior in organizational settings. Two main classes of studies are identified: (a) studies on coordination and competition, which include experimental research that tests whether communication can help to...
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. Moreover, ER is associated with enhanced internal communication via staff meetings. The analysis of managers' perceptions …
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