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Away from Home and Back : Coordinating (Remote) Workers in 1800 and 2020
Juhász, Réka; Squicciarini, Mara; Voigtländer, Nico - 2021
This paper examines the future of remote work by drawing parallels between two contexts: The move from home to factory-based production during the Industrial Revolution and the shift to work from home today. Both are characterized by a similar trade-off: the potential productivity advantage of...
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Why Not Taxation and Representation? A Note on the American Revolution
Galiani, Sebastian - 2016
Why did the most prosperous colonies in the British Empire mount a rebellion? Even more puzzling, why didn't the … British agree to have American representation in Parliament and quickly settle the dispute peacefully? At first glance, it … problematic because American elites could not credibly commit to refuse to form a coalition with the British opposition …
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Longitudinal Patterns of Compliance with Osha Health and Safety Regulations in the Manufacturing Sector
Gray, Wayne B.; Jones, Carol Adaire - 2021
We examine the impact of OSHA enforcement on company compliance with agency regulations in the manufacturing sector, with a unique plant-level data set of inspection and compliance behavior during 1972-1983, the first twelve years of the agency operation. The analysis suggests that, for an...
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Do Minimum Wages Affect Non-Wage Job Attributes? Evidence on Fringe Benefits and Working Conditions
Simon, Kosali Ilayperuma; Kaestner, Robert - 2021
Neoclassical labor market theories imply that employers will react to binding minimum wages by changing the level of employment. A multitude of studies consider this aspect of minimum wages, yet fail to reach a consensus as to its employment effects. While the employment effects of the minimum...
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How Do Workplace Smoking Laws Work? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Local Laws in Ontario, Canada
Carpenter, Christopher S. - 2007
There are very large literatures in public health and economics on the effects of workplace smoking bans, with most studies relying on cross-sectional variation. We provide new quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of workplace bans by using the differential timing of adoption of over 100...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776876
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Elite Identity and Political Accountability : A Tale of Ten Islands
Carvalho, Jean-Paul - 2016
Emancipation of slaves in the 1830s transformed the political elites of the British-Caribbean plantation islands. New … change in composition dissolved themselves and converted to British ‘Crown Rule' …
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Reinventing the Wheel : The Economic Benefits of Wheeled Transportation in Early British Colonial West Africa
Chaves, Isaias N.; Engerman, Stanley L.; Robinson, James A. - 2013
calculating the social savings and social rate of return associated with the introduction of the railway into colonial British …
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Homework in Monetary Economics : Inflation, Home Production, and the Production of Homes
Aruoba, S. Borağan - 2012
We study models incorporating money, household production, and investment in housing. Inflation, as a tax on market activity, encourages substitution into household production, and thus investment in household capital. Hence, inflation increases the (appropriately deflated) value of the housing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013102709
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Market Work, Home Work and Taxes : A Cross Country Analysis
Rogerson, Richard - 2010
This paper uses a simple model of labor supply extended to allow for home production to understand the extent to which differences in taxes can account for differences in time allocations between the US and Europe. Once home production is included, the elasticity of substitution between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758294
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The Consumption-Tightness Puzzle
Ravn, Morten O. - 2021
This paper introduces a labor force participation choice into a labor market matching model embedded in a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium set-up with production and savings. The participation choice is modelled as a tradeoff between forgoing the expected benefits of being search active...
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