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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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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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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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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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Alternative dispute resolution

Dickinson, David L. - In: IZA World of Labor (2023)

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

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Gesetzliche und vertragliche Eskalationsmodelle im privatrechtlichen Bauwesen (Bauvertrag)

Walther, Rainer - 2023

Die vorliegende Arbeit setzt sich einleitend mit den Möglichkeiten auseinander, Streitigkeiten, die immer wieder in typischen Konstellationen im Bauvertrag gem. §§ 650a ff BGB, den Eskalationsfeldern, auftreten, durch gesetzlich bereitgestellte Verfahren wie aber auch durch materielles...

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The Role of National and International Intellectual Property Law and Policy in Reconceptualising the Definition of Investment

Upreti, Pratyush Nath - In: IIC - International Review of Intellectual Property and … 52 (2021) 2, pp. 103-136

protected investment. It offers two approaches for controlling investment arbitration related to intellectual property rights … requirements of investment arbitration. Rather, assessing IP as an investment must be done by referring to national laws. This is … arbitration by integrating the territoriality principle and the social objectives and bargains achieved through international IP …

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Arbitration and Mediation: An Economic Perspective

Manzini, Paola; Mariotti, Marco - 2002

This paper deals with the effects that intermediation has on strategic behaviour in negotiations. To this end, we use the tools of game theory to analyse how different institutional settings can provide specific strategic incentives and thereby condition the outcome of negotiations. We...

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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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