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A Wolfram in Sheep'S Clothing : U.S. Economic Warfare in Spain, 1940-1944
Caruana, Leonard; Rockoff, Hugh - 2021
when Germany was going from victory to victory, was successful in helping keep Spain neutral because it forced the Franco … regime to rethink the costs of joining the war. Pre-emptive buying of wolfram was also successful. It forced Germany to pay … Germany, was not fully realized. Several special circumstances, in particular the naval blockade and the tendency of sanctions …
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High Wage Workers Work for High Wage Firms
Borovičková, Katarína - 2017
each. Using administrative data from Austria, we find that the correlation between worker and firm types lies between 0 …
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What Happened to U.S. Business Dynamism?
Akcigit, Ufuk - 2019
In the past several decades, the U.S. economy has witnessed a number of striking trends that indicate a rising market concentration and a slowdown in business dynamism. In this paper, we make an attempt to understand potential common forces behind these empirical regularities through the lens of...
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Who Do Unions Target? Unionization Over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Businesses
Dinlersoz, Emin - 2014
What type of businesses do unions target for organizing? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity, and decides which ones to organize and when. An establishment becomes...
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Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of U.S. Firms
Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2014
We study the impact of skilled immigrants on the employment structures of U.S. firms using matched employer-employee data. Unlike most previous work, we use the firm as the lens of analysis to account for a greater level of heterogeneity and the fact that many skilled immigrant admissions are...
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Learning Capitalism the Hard Way--Evidence from German Reunification
Triebs, Thomas - 2013
We develop a model of firm learning in volatile markets with noisy signals and test its predictions using historical data from the Ifo Institute's Business Climate Survey. We find that firms' forecasts improve as they age. We also exploit German Reunification as a natural experiment where firms...
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Child Penalties Across Countries : Evidence and Explanations
Kleven, Henrik - 2019
This paper provides evidence on child penalties in female and male earnings in different countries. The estimates are based on event studies around the birth of the first child, using the specification proposed by Kleven et al. (2018). The analysis reveals some striking similarities in the...
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Incentive Pay and Bank Risk-Taking : Evidence from Austrian, German, and Swiss Banks
Efing, Matthias; Hau, Harald; Kampkötter, Patrick; … - 2021
We use payroll data on 1.2 million bank employee years in the Austrian, German, and Swiss banking sector to identify incentive pay in the critical banking segments of treasury/capital market management and investment banking for 66 banks. We document an economically significant correlation of...
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Gender Differences in Covid-19 Related Attitudes and Behavior : Evidence from a Panel Survey in Eight OECD Countries
Galasso, Vincenzo - 2020
Using original data from two waves of a survey conducted in March and April 2020 in eight OECD countries (N = 21,649), we show that women are more likely to see COVID-19 as a very serious health problem, to agree with restraining public policy measures adopted in response to it, and to comply...
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Designing Disability Insurance Reforms : Tightening Eligibility Rules or Reducing Benefits
Haller, Andreas; Staubli, Stefan; Zweimüller, Josef - 2022
policy parameters: (i) DI eligibility rules and (ii) DI benefits. Causal evidence from two DI reforms in Austria generate …
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