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Between agora and shopping mall
Falkinger, Josef - 2008
of individuals to information. Goods advertising is competing with political information for people's attention. This …
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Fast-food restaurant advertising on television and its influence on youth body composition
Grossman, Michael; Tekin, Erdal; Wada, Roy - 2012
We examine the effects of fast-food restaurant advertising on television on the body composition of adolescents as … from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 and data on local fast-food restaurant advertising on television from … Competitive Media Reporting. Exposure to fast-food restaurant advertising on television causes statistically significant increases …
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An Explanation of International Differences in Education and Workplace Training
Brunello, Giorgio; Medio, Alfredo - 2000
We develop a simple search equilibrium model of workplace training and education based on two features. First, investment in education improves job-related learning skills and reduces training costs burdened by firms. Second, firms with vacant skilled job slots can choose between recruitment...
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Unequal pay or unequal employment? A cross-country analysis of gender gaps
Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2006
Gender wage and employment gaps are negatively correlated across countries. We argue that non-random selection of women into work explains an important part of such correlation and thus of the observed variation in wage gaps. The idea is that, if women who are employed tend to have relatively...
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Employment protection, firm selection, and growth
Poschke, Markus - 2007
This paper analyzes the effect of firing costs on aggregate productivity growth. For this purpose, a model of endogenous growth through selection and imitation is developed. It is consistent with recent evidence on firm dynamics and on the importance of reallocation for productivity growth. In...
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Immigrants and welfare programmes: exploring the interactions between immigrant characteristics, immigrant welfare dependence and welfare policy
Barrett, Alan; McCarthy, Yvonne - 2008
The primary purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the papers within the economics literature that have examined the questions of immigrant welfare use and the responsiveness of immigrants to the incentives created by welfare systems. While our focus is largely on papers looking at the...
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Uncertainty and the politics of employment protection
Vindigni, Andrea - 2008
This paper investigates the role that idiosyncratic uncertainty plays in shaping social preferences over the degree of labor market flexibility, in a general equilibrium model of dynamic labor demand where the productivity of firms evolves over time as a Geometric Brownian motion. A key result...
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The rise in obesity across the Atlantic: an economic perspective
Brunello, Giorgio; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; … - 2008
We provide comparable evidence on the patterns and trends in obesity across the Atlantic and analyse whether there are economic rationales for public intervention to control obesity. We take into account equity issues as well as efficiency considerations, which are organized around three...
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Why does unemployment hurt the employed? Evidence from the life satisfaction gap between the public and the private sector
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2008
High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well-being. This paper studies the importance of individual economic security, in particular job security, in workers' well-being by exploiting sector-specific institutional differences...
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The lot of the unemployed: a time use perspective
Krueger, Alan B.; Mueller, Andreas - 2008
This paper provides new evidence on time use and subjective well-being of employed and unemployed individuals in 14 countries. We devote particular attention to characterizing and modeling job search intensity, measured by the amount of time devoted to searching for a new job. Job search...
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