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Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Using data across countries and over time we show that women are unhappier than men in unhappiness and negative affect equations, irrespective of the measure used - anxiety, depression, fearfulness, sadness, loneliness, anger - and they have more days with bad mental health and more restless...

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Cross-Country Inequality Trends

Acemoglu, Daron - 2002

much less, in (continental) Europe over the same time period. I review the two most popular explanations for these … differential trends: that relative supply of skills increased faster in Europe, and that European labor market institutions … where labor market institutions creating wage compression in Europe also encourage more investment in technologies …

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Client-Based Entrepreneurship

Rauch, James E. - 2010

soliciting the current client in the event of termination of employment. The socially optimal level of entrepreneurship will … are too restrictive and produce too little entrepreneurship, and governments can increase welfare by limiting enforcement …

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Volatility in an Era of Reduced Uncertainty : Lessons from Pax Britannica

Brown, William O. - 2005

until the First World War. News events and macroeconomic variables cannot account for this extended period of reduced …

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Tales from the Bretton Woods

Bordo, Michael D. - 2014

An analogy has been made between the collapse of the Bretton Woods system in 1971 and the recent Eurozone crisis. The build up of TARGET balances in the Eurosystem of Central Banks after 2007 with the GIPS (deficit countries having large liabilities) and Germany (a surplus country) with large...

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British Unions in Decline : An Examination of the 1980s Fall in Trade Union Recognition

Disney, Richard - 1994

The authors analyze establishment-level data from the three Workplace Industrial Relations Surveys of 1980, 1984 and 1990 to document and explain the sharp decline in unionization that occurred in Britain over the 1980s. Between 1980 and 1990 the proportion of British establishments which...

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The Impact of Industrial Relations Legislation on British Union Density

Freeman, Richard - 1989

The unionized share of the work force changed markedly in the United Kingdom between the 1970s and 1980s. In the 1970s density rose steadily, making the United Kingdom the most heavily organized large OECD country. In the 1980s, by contrast, density fell by 1.4 percentage points per annum -- a...

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Institutions, Capital Constraints and Entrepreneurial Firm Dynamics : Evidence from Europe

Desai, Mihir - 2003

We explore the impact of the institutional environment on the nature of entrepreneurial activity across Europe … activity in the emerging markets of Europe, but not in the more mature economies of Europe. Greater fairness and greater …

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International Labor Economics

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2002

I argue for increased reliance on non-U.S. data and policy evaluations to understand basic labor- market parameters and to predict the effects of changes in U.S. labor-market policies. Foreign experiences generate exogenous shocks to labor costs that create unusual opportunities to measure...

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Labor Laws and Innovation

Acharya, Viral V. - 2010

Stringent labor laws can provide firms a commitment device to not punish short-run failures and thereby spur their employees to pursue value-enhancing innovative activities. Using patents and citations as proxies for innovation, we identify this effect by exploiting the time-series variation...

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