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Off the Waterfront: The Long-run Impact of Technological Change on Dock Workers

El-Sahli, Zouheir; Upward, Richard - 2015

We investigate how individual workers and local labour markets adjust over a long time period to a discrete and plausibly exogenous technological shock, namely the introduction of containerisation in the UK port industry. This technology, which was introduced rapidly between the mid-1960s and...

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Estimating individual total costs of domestic violence

Santos, Cristina - 2008

This paper estimates total individual costs of domestic violence. It draws on a cross-section survey that includes data on self-reported victimization variables, individual income and a self-reported life satisfaction variable. Using a life satisfaction approach, it estimates the variation in...

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The COVID-19 pandemic and commercial property rent dynamics

Allan, Roddy; Liusman, Ervi; Lu, Teddy; Tsang, Desmond - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 14 (2021) 8, pp. 1-24

This paper utilizes timely proprietary data to examine the contemporary impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on commercial property rent dynamics in the Asia-Pacific region. Given that the Asia-Pacific region was the first to be impacted by the public health crisis, it is important to examine how the...

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Tax and Occupancy of Business Properties: Theory and Evidence from UK Business Rates

Lockwood, Ben; Simmler, Martin; Tam, Eddy H.F. - 2023

We study the impact of commercial property taxation on vacancy rates and rents in the UK, using a new data-set, and exploiting exogenous variations in property tax rates from reliefs in the UK system: small business rate relief (SBRR), retail relief and empty property relief. We estimate that...

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Efficiency in the UK Commercial Property Market: A Long-run Perspective

Devaney, Steven; Holtemöller, Oliver; Schulz, Rainer - 2012

Informationally efficient prices are a necessary requirement for optimal resource allocation in the real estate market. Prices are informationally efficient if they reflect buildings' benefit to marginal buyers, thereby taking account of all available information on future market development....

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Lawyers as agents of the devil in a prisoner's dilemma game: Evidence from long run play

Ashenfelter, Orley; Bloom, David E.; Dahl, Gordon Boyack - 2013

in wage disputes that were settled by final-offer arbitration in New Jersey. The paper also reports briefly on similar … agreeing not to hire lawyers is cheaper and does not appear to alter arbitration outcomes. …

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The Impact of Compulsory Arbitration on Bargaining Behavior: An Experimental Study

Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2005

A series of experiments compares bargaining behavior under three different settings: no arbitration, conventional and … final offer arbitration. Under no arbitration disputes with zero payoffs were around 10%, while the pie was equally split in … less than half of the cases. Under conventional arbitration - where the arbitrator is free in choosing his award - every …

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Alternative dispute resolution

Dickinson, David L. - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

Alternative dispute resolution procedures such as arbitration and mediation are the most common methods for resolving …

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A Review of Build-Operate-Transfer for Infrastructure Development: Some Lessons for Policy Reform

Llanto, Gilberto M. - 2008

The Philippines has used the BOT law, as amended to motivate private sector provision of infrastructure. Using examples from selected BOT projects in the country, the paper points out key issues constraining the successful implementation of the BOT approach to infrastructure provision. It also...

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Are Voluntary Agreements Better? Evidence from Baseball Arbitration

Budd, John W.; Sojourner, Aaron J.; Jung, Jaewoo - 2014

This paper empirically examines the widespread belief that voluntarily negotiated agreements produce better long-run relationships than third-party imposed settlements, such as arbitrator decisions or court judgments. Two key outcomes are analyzed – subsequent player performance and the...

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