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Free Riding and Sales Strategies for the Internet
Carlton, Dennis W.; Chevalier, Judith A. - 2022
We examine manufacturers' decisions of whether and how to offer their products for sale over the internet …. Manufacturers that rely on promotion of their products by brick and mortar retailers must consider the possibility that internet … their products over the internet and to control the pricing of their products over the internet. We examine three categories …
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Under Pressure : Job Security, Resource Allocation, and Productivity in Schools Under Nclb
Reback, Randall - 2011
The most sweeping federal education law in decades, the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, requires states to administer standardized exams and to punish schools that do not make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) for the fraction of students passing these exams. While the literature on school...
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Labor Regulations and European Private Equity
Bozkaya, Ant - 2014
European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and labor market expenditures (e.g., unemployment insurance benefits) for providing worker insurance. Employment regulations more directly tax firms making frequent labor adjustments than other labor insurance mechanisms....
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Did the Paycheck Protection Program Hit the Target?
Granja, Joao - 2020
This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of financial intermediation and the economic effects of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), a large and novel small business support program that was part of the initial policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the US. We use loan-level...
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The Role of Labor Market Changes in the Slowdown of European Productivity Growth
Dew-Becker, Ian L. - 2008
Throughout the postwar era until 1995 labor productivity grew faster in Europe than in the United States. Since 1995, productivity growth in the EU-15 has slowed while that in the United States has accelerated. But Europe's productivity growth slowdown was largely offset by faster growth in...
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Job Security Does Affect Economic Efficiency : Theory, a New Statistic, and Evidence from Chile
Petrin, Amil - 2007
The extensive empirical macro- and micro-level evidence on the impact of job security provisions is largely inconclusive. We argue that the weak evidence is a consequence of the weak power of statistics used, which is suggested by a dynamic theory of plant-level labor demand that we develop....
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Employment Law and the Labor Market
Jolls, Christine - 2010
Legal rules governing the employer-employee relationship are many and varied. Economic analysis has illuminated both the efficiency and the effects on employee welfare of such rules, as described in this paper. Topics addressed include workplace safety mandates, compensation systems for...
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The Labor Market Impacts of Youth Training in the Dominican Republic : Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation
Card, David - 2010
This paper summarizes the findings from the first randomized evaluation of a job training program in Latin America. Between 2001 and 2005 the government of the Dominican Republic operated a subsidized training program for low-income youth in urban areas. The program featured several weeks of...
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Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States
Autor, David H. - 2010
Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity by distorting production choices. Firms facing (non-Coasean) worker dismissal costs will curtail hiring below efficient levels and retain unproductive workers, both of which should affect productivity. These theoretical...
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How Was the Weekend? How the Social Context Underlies Weekend Effects in Happiness and Other Emotions for Us Workers
Helliwell, John F. - 2015
In this paper we estimate the size of weekend effects for seven emotions and then explore their main determinants for the working population in the United States, using the Gallup/Healthways US Daily Poll 2008-2012. We first find that weekend effects exist for all emotions, and that these...
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