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Size, age and the growth of firms : new evidence from quantile regressions

Distante, Roberta; Petrella, Ivan; Santoro, Emiliano - 2014

The nexus between fi?rm growth, size and age in U.S. manufacturing is examined through the lens of quantile regression … performing firms towards the median rate of growth, while age is never advantageous, and more so as firms grow faster. …

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To swing or not to swing : an assessment of age and political cynicism of swing voting

Proulx, Damon; Savage, David; Stadelmann, David; … - 2021

first-hand microeconomic evidence on swing voting. We focus on the interactions between voters' age and political cynicism … Parliamentary Election Survey (DPES) 1989 to 2010. Our results indicate that swing voting is less likely to occur in older age … groups and more likely among individuals with higher levels of political cynicism. The age effects tend to be stronger among …

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Optimal age-based policies for pandemics : an economic analysis of Covid-19 and beyond

Brotherhood, Luiz Mário; Kircher, Philipp; Santos, Cézar - 2023

This paper investigates the importance of the age composition for pandemic policy design. To do so, it introduces an … economic framework with age heterogeneity, individual choice, and incomplete information, emphasizing the value of testing …

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Is unemployment always higher when insiders decide?

Filges, Trine; Larsen, Birthe - 2000

insiders in this paper are characterized by being more efficient when they search for a job than the outsiders, implying that …

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The Impact of Youth Unemployment Policy

Filges, Trine; Larsen, Birthe - 2001

This paper examines the impact on unemployment, unemployment distribution, wages and welfare of Youth Unemployment Programmes (YUPs). The aim of YUP is to increase the number of young people acquiring skills. We assume that the YUPs are a complete success and consequently analyse what happens...

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Stick, Carrot and Skill Acquisition

Filges, Trine; Larsen, Birthe - 2001

This paper examins the macroeconomic effects of youth unemployement programmes in the form of vocational training (YUPs), developing a two sector general equilibrium model featuring matching frictions and worker-firm wage bargaining for skilled workers. Unskilled sector wages are indexed to...

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A search-theoretic approach to efficient financial intermediation

Tripier, Fabien - 2014

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Environment, health and labor market

Pautrel, Xavier - 2017

We re-examine the impact of environmental taxation on health and output, in the presence of labor market frictions. Our main findings are that matching process and wage bargaining introduce new channels of transmission of environmental taxation on the economy such that assuming perfect labor...

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Optimal information transmission in organizations : search and congestion

Arenas, Àlex; Cabrales, Antonio; Díaz-Guilera, Albert; … - 2004

We propose a stylized model of a problem-solving organization whose internal communication structure is given by a fixed network. Problems arrive randomly anywhere in this network and must find their way to their respective specialized solvers by relying on local information alone. The...

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Building up social capital in a changing world : a network approach

Vega-Redondo, Fernando - 2003

This paper models the dynamic process through which a large society may succeed in building up its social capital by establishing a stable and dense pattern of interaction among its members. In the model, agents interact according to a collection of infinitely repeated Prisoner's Dilemmas played...

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