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Minimum wages and the creation of illegal migration
Epstein, Gil S.; Heizler, Odelia - 2013
In this paper, we explore employers' decisions regarding the employment of legal and illegal immigrants in the presence of endogenous adjustment cost, minimum wages and an enforcement budget. We show that increasing the employment of legal foreign workers will increase the number of illegal...
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Impact of Cartel Enforcement on Compliance in the Chemical Industry
De Stefano, Gianni; Stephan, Andreas - 2021
This paper undertakes a qualitative analysis of the relationship between EU cartel enforcement in the chemical industry in the period 1997-2010 and compliance measures announced in the Annual Reports of the undertakings involved. It goes on to focus on Akzo Nobel NV’s unique use of an internal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013212928
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Mainstreaming Migration in Development Agendas : Assessment of South Asian Countries
Wickramasekara, Piyasiri - 2015
There has been increased emphasis on the linkages between international migration and development at international, regional and national levels in the past two decades. This recognition of migration as a developmental tool has generated calls for mainstreaming migration in development with some...
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Digital labour platforms and migrant workers: Analysing migrants' working conditions and (over)representation in platform work in Europe
Zwysen, Wouter; Piasna, Agnieszka - 2024
world of work are the subject of much debate. Although data are scarce, there is a general consensus that migrants are … overrepresented in this type of work. Platforms may well provide migrants with work opportunities, especially shortly after arrival … which platforms rely on migrants and create the conditions for exploitation compared to other workers is an important …
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Endogenous enforcement of intellectual property, North-South trade, and growth
Schäfer, Andreas; Schneider, Maik T. - 2011
While most countries have harmonized intellectual property rights (IPR) legislation, the dispute about the optimal level of IPR-enforcement remains. This paper develops an endogenous growth framework with two open economies satisfying the classical North-South assumptions to study (a)...
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The Stability Pact - Rationales, Problems, Alternatives
Lindbeck, Assar; Niepelt, Dirk - 2006
We analyze economic rationales for, and possible alternatives to, the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP). We identify various cross-country spillover effects and domestic policy failures as potential rationales. The two sets of problems suggest different corrective measures, and different measures...
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Is regulatory compliance by employers possible without enforcement? Evidence from the Swedish labor market
Cronert, Axel - 2019
This study shines new light on an ongoing debate about the extent to which discouraging enforcement activities are necessary to make regulated actors comply with government regulations. Specifically, it evaluates a long-standing but essentially unenforced regulation that mandated employers in...
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The Revolving Door and Regulatory Enforcement: Firm-Level Evidence on Tax Rates and IRS Audits
Egerod, Benjamin C. K. - 2019
I argue that by hiring former legislators firms can impact the enforcement of rules. I test the argument with data on firm-level taxes and the IRS's enforcement activities. I compile a database of publicly listed firms, which have hired Members of Congress (MCs) in the period 2004-2015. I show...
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Toward a framework for implementation of climate change treaty through self-enforcing mechanisms
Mehra, Meeta Keswani; Mukherjee, Saptarshi; Dutta, Monica - 2012
Global warming caused by accumulation of emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) is a public bad, addressing which requires collective action by all the countries of the world. Under the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), most countries have negotiated the Kyoto Protocol for GHG...
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Endogenously excludable goods
Kolmar, Martin - 2001
In this paper we analyze the optimal interplay between the publie and private enforceement of property rights. In doing so we endogenize the distinction between public and club goods on the one and private and common-pool goods on the other hand. The private enforcement of property rights is...
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