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Empirical determinants of employee resistance against innovations

Zwick, Thomas - 2000

Employee resistance against innovations is a virulent phenomenon and there is a broad theoretical literature on its determinants. The empirical evidence is scarce, however, and mainly provides descriptive evidence on the incidence of the phenomenon and concentrates on the effectiveness of change...

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Exponential or Power Distance-decay for Commuting? An Alternative Specification

de Vries, Jacob J.; Nijkamp, Peter; Rietveld, Piet - 2004

-to-work journeys between municipalities in Denmark. Special attention is given to a proper estimation method and the form of the …

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Saving after retirement and preferences for residual wealth

Fella, Giulio; Holm, Martin Blomhoff; Pugh, Thomas - 2024

We use administrative data for Norway to estimate an incomplete-market life-cycle model of retired singles and couples with a bequest motive, health-dependent utility, and uncertain longevity and health. We allow the parameters of the bequest utility to differ between households with and without...

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Identifying network ties from panel data: Theory and an application to tax competition

de Paula, Áureo; Rasul, Imran; Souza, Pedro C. L. - 2023

-varying networks. We then describe how high-dimensional estimation techniques can be used to estimate the interactions model based on …

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Firm consolidation and labor market outcomes

Dobbelaere, Sabien; McCormack, Grace; Prinz, Daniel; … - 2022

Using rich administrative data from the Netherlands, we study the consequences of firm consolidation for workers. For workers at acquired firms, takeovers are associated with a 8.5% drop in employment at the consolidated firm and a 2.6% drop in total labor income. These effects are persistent...

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The Gap between Lifetime Fertility Intentions and Completed Fertility in Europe and the United States: A Cohort Approach

Beaujouan, Éva; Berghammer, Caroline - 2017

We study the aggregate gap between intended and actual fertility in 20 countries in Europe and the United States, adopting a cohort approach that differs from the period approach widely used in prior research. We compare the mean intended number of children and percentage intending to be...

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China and the United States: Different economic models but similarly low levels of socioeconomic mobility

van der Weide, Roy; Narayan, Ambar - 2019

The United States and China are the world's largest economies. Together they are responsible for about one-third of the world's economic output. This paper aims to examine whether the two economic giants are also lands of opportunity where resources are allocated in a way that minimizes...

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Late, But Not Too Late? Postponement of First Birth Among Highly Educated US Women

Nitsche, Natalie; Brückner, Hannah - In: European Journal of Population 37 (2020) 2, pp. 371-403

nexus noted in demographic and biomedical research is especially relevant for women who pursue postgraduate education … because of the potential overlap of education completion, early career stages, and family formation. The results show that … women with postgraduate education differ from women with college education in terms of the timing of the first birth …

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DSGE Models and Central Banks

Tovar, Camilo Ernesto - 2008

Over the past 15 years there has been remarkable progress in the specification and estimation of dynamic stochastic …

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Recent developments in empirical IO: Dynamic demand and dynamic games

Aguirregabiria, Victor; Nevo, Aviv - 2010

estimation and counterfactual experiments in models with multiple equilibria. We also examine methods for the estimation of …

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