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In this paper I review the empirical evidence on the effects of incarceration on thesubsequent employment and earnings of less-educated young prisoners...
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This paper estimates a structural model of the employment decision of the firm. Ourestablishment level data displays an extreme degree of rigidity in that employment levels arelargely constant throughout our sample...
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We study the effects of liquidity constraints and start-up costs on the relationship betweenwealth and the fraction of …
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In a perfect labor market severance payments can have no real effects as they can beundone by a properly designed labor contract (Lazear 1990). We give empirical content tothis proposition by estimating the effects of EPL on entry wages and on the tenure-wageprofile in a quasi-experimental...
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There have been many claims that the Internet represents a nearly frictionless market. This paper extends the empirical results on online retailing by studying prices for nearly homogenous services - holiday packages - matched across conventional and Internet channels. On first sight, lower...
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. Mittels einer Hochrechnung der Befragungsergebnisse wurde die gesamtwirtschaftliche Belastung mit bürokratiebedingten Kosten …
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Kommission wurde daraufhin mit der Durchführung eines europaweiten Vergleichs der Gründungsdauern und -kosten beauftragt, zu dem …-westfälischen Wirtschaftsministerium, den Auftrag, Dauer und Kosten von administrativen Gründungsverfahren in drei deutschen Kommunen zu erheben und die …
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Technologischer Fortschritt sowie strukturelle Veränderungen haben zu veränderten Kosten- und Leistungsstrukturen … Personal-, Kapital- sowie administrativen Sach-kosten (z.B. Büromaterial, EDV, Reisekosten) zusammensetzen, sind derzeit auf ca …
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capabilities, and an intermediate market subject to transaction costs, where firms can choose whether to be integrated or … vertically specialized. By varying the level of transaction costs and changing the structure of the correlation between upstream … evolves over time. The results suggest that (a) without capability differences, even if transaction costs are nil, firms …
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This paper develops a theory of consumer boycotts. Some consumers care not only aboutthe products they buy but also about whether the firm behaves ethically. Other consumersdo not care about the behavior of the firm but yet may like to give the impression of beingethical consumers. Consequently,...
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