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Rural labor absorption efficiency in urban areas under different urbanization patterns and industrial structures: The case of China
Liwen, Chen; Zeng, Xiangquan; Yumei, Yang - 2011
In this paper, we use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to estimate how well China's urban areas absorb migrant workers … under the interaction of urbanization and industrialization. We applied an output-oriented BCC model to evaluate provincial … and regional rural labor absorption efficiency in mainland China. It appears that 4 out of 31 provinces and municipals are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282403
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Contracts as reference points: experimental evidence
Fehr, Ernst; Hart, Oliver; Zehnder, Christian - 2008
In a recent paper, Hart and Moore (2008) introduce new behavioral assumptions that can explain long term contracts and important aspects of the employment relation. However, so far there exists no direct evidence that supports these assumptions and, in particular, Hart and Moore's notion that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269323
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Organization and information in the fight against crime: An evaluation of the integration of police forces in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Soares, Rodrigo Reis; Viveiros, Igor - 2010
This paper explores the experience of information sharing, coordination, and integration of actions of the Civil and Military Polices in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, in the context of the IGESP program. The IGESP is based on the introduction of information management systems and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276725
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Policy relevant heterogeneity in the value of statistical life: new evidence from panel data quantile regressions
Kniesner, Thomas J.; Viscusi, William Kip; Ziliak, … - 2009
We examine differences in the value of statistical life (VSL) across potential wage levels in panel data using quantile regressions with intercept heterogeneity. Latent heterogeneity is econometrically important and affects the estimated VSL. Our findings indicate that a reasonable average cost...
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Indirect effects of a policy altering criminal behaviour: Evidence from the Italian prison experiment
Drago, Francesco; Galbiati, Roberto - 2010
We exploit the Collective Clemency Bill passed by the Italian Parliament in July 2006 to evaluate the indirect effects of a policy that randomly commutes actual sentences to expected sentences for 40 percent of the Italian prison population. We estimate the direct and indirect impact of the...
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Willingness to accept equals willingness to pay for labor market estimates of the value of statistical life
Kniesner, Thomas J.; Viscusi, W. Kip; Ziliak, James Patrick - 2012
Our research clarifies the conceptual linkages among willingness to pay for additional safety, willingness to accept less safety, and the value of statistical life (VSL). We present econometric estimates that in the important case of workers' decisions concerning exposure to fatal injury risk...
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Death, Happiness, and the Calculation ofCompensatory Damages
Oswald, Andrew J.; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper studies the mental distress caused by bereavement. The largest emotional lossesare from the death of a spouse; the second-worst in severity are the losses from the death ofa child; the third-worst is the death of a parent...
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Pinning Down the Value of Statistical Life
Kniesner, Thomas J.; Viscusi, W Kip; Woock, Christopher; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Our research addresses fundamental long-standing concerns in the compensating wage differentials literature and its public policy implications: the econometric properties of estimates of the value of statistical life (VSL) and the wide range of such estimates from about $0.5 million to about $21...
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Can Policy Interact with Culture? Minimum Wage and the Quality of Labor Relations
Aghion, Philippe; Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Can public policy interfere with culture, such as beliefs and norms of cooperation? We investigate his question by evaluating the interactions between the State and the Civil Society, focusing on the labor market. International data shows a negative correlation between union density and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822615
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Contracts as Reference Points: Experimental Evidence
Fehr, Ernst; Hart, Oliver; Zehnder, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
In a recent paper, Hart and Moore (2008) introduce new behavioral assumptions that can explain long term contracts and important aspects of the employment relation. However, so far there exists no direct evidence that supports these assumptions and, in particular, Hart and Moore's notion that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763665