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Plata y Plomo : How Higher Wages Expose Politicians to Criminal Violence
Pulejo, Massimo; Querubín Borrero, Pablo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Adequate wages are an important tool to shield public officials from special interests and corruption. But what is the equilibrium effect of higher wages in the presence of criminal pressure groups, who use both bribes and violence? By means of a regression discontinuity design, we show that an...
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Globalisation and employment in the EU electrical industry : a case study with emphasis on Germany
Diehl, Markus - 2000
The development of production, prices and employment in the EU electrical industry between the mid-1970s and the mid-1990s is analysed in order to test the hypothesis that the competitive pressure from low-income countries has led to the observed decline of the employment share of low-skilled...
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Does employment protection reduce the demand for unskilled labor?
Daniel, Kirsten (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Perhaps it does. We propose a model in which workers with little education or in the tails of the age distribution the inexperienced and the old have more chance of job failure (mismatch). Recruits' average education should then increase and the standard deviation of starting age decrease when...
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Does employment protection reduce the demand for unskilled labour?
Daniel, Kirsten; Siebert, William S. - In: International economic journal 19 (2005) 2, pp. 197-222
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Outsourcing and inequality
Anderton, Bob (contributor); Brenton, Paul (contributor);  … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Globalisation and employment in the EU electrical industry : a case study with emphasis on Germany
Diehl, Markus - 2000
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Does Employment Protection Reduce the Demand for Unskilled Labor?
Daniel, Kirsten; Siebert, Stanley - 2021
Perhaps it does. We propose a model in which workers with little education or in the tails of the age distribution - the inexperienced and the old - have more chance of job failure (mismatch). Recruits' average education should then increase and the standard deviation of starting age decrease...
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Failure to launch : cross-national trends in the transition to economic independence
English, Lisa Bellavance; Burtless, Gary; Gornick, Janet C. - 2007
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Rethinking the Crime Reducing Effect of Education? Mechanisms and Evidence from Regional Divides
Brilli, Ylenia - 2015
We estimate the contemporaneous effect of education on adolescent crime by exploiting the variation in crime rates … percentage-point increase of the enrollment rate reduces adolescent crime by 1.3 per cent in the North of Italy but increases it … by 3.9 per cent in the South. The crime-reducing effect depends mainly on incapacitation (i.e. adolescents stay in school …
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