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Labor Market Policies and Outcomes:Cross Country Evidence for the EU-27
Rovelli, Riccardo; Bruno, Randolph - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We conduct a comparative analysis of Labor Market Policies and outcomes for the EUmember states, for the period 2000-2005. We document the main differences in LaborMarket Policies across EU members, including new member states after 2004...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861414
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Beyond Outcomes: Measuring Procedural Utility
Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung <Zürich> - 2004
People not only obtain utility from actual outcomes but also from the conditionswhich lead to these outcomes. The paper proposes an economic concept of this notion ofprocedural utility. Preferences beyond outcome can be manifold. We distinguish proceduralutility people get from institutions as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005868515
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A New Labour Force:An econometric analysis of multiple jobholding
Combos, Constantinos; McKay, Andrew D.; Wright, Peter - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2007
In this paper we model multiple jobholding empirically using a specially collected database for the regionof Magnesia in Greece. We find that although income plays a major deterministic impact on multiplejobholding, other factors have a determining the final outcome of the individual’s choice...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005868602
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A Meta-Analysis of Estimates of the Impact of Technical Barriers to Trade
Li, Yuan; Beghin, John C. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2010
A meta-analysis explains the variation in estimated trade effects of technical barriersto trade broadly defined, using available estimates from the empirical international tradeliterature, and accounting for data sampling and methodology differences. Agriculture and foodindustries tend to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360705
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The Benefits and Costs of Alternative Strategies toImprove Educational Outcomes
Orazem, Peter F.; Glewwe, Paul; Patrinos, Harry Anthony - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2008
This paper reviews the stylized facts regarding the levels of human capital investments and the returnsto those investments in developing countries. These returns are substantial and are pervasive acrossdemographic groups. Returns are comparable between men and women and between urban and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360810
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Higher Wages in Exporting Firms : Self-Selection, Export Effect, or Both? First Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data
Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
plants that start to export. We show that the exporter wage premium does already exist in the years before firms start to … export, and that it does not increase in the following years... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005860990
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Simultaneous Causality in International Trade
Weber, Enzo - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2007
This paper proposes estimating causalities in bilateral international trade in simultaneous systems, including domestic and foreign GDP as well as mutual trade flows. Conventional macroeconomic theory mainly follows partial approaches like import functions or exportled growth. Focusing on the US...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861045
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Exports and Productivity Growth:First Evidence from a Continuous Treatment Approach
Fryges, Helmut; Wagner, Joachim - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
's exportstatus and the growth of its labour productivity, using the firms' export status as a binarytreatment variable and comparing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863028
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Productivity and Size of the Export Market:Evidence for West and East German Plants, 2004
Wagner, Joachim - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivityand size of the export market for Germany, a leading …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863226
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Export Entry, Export Exit, and Productivity in German Manufacturing Industries
Wagner, Joachim - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
productive than firms that continue to export in t. (H2) Firms that start to export in year t are less productive than firms that … export both in year t-1 and in year t. (H3) Firms from a cohort of export starters that still export in the last year of the … panel were more productive in the start year than firms from the same cohort that stopped to export in between. While …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864521