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The Linkages Between Productivity and Social Progress: An Introduction and Overview
Banting, Keith; Sharpe, Andrew; St-Hilaire, France - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …
Productivity research is Canada has traditionally focused on narrow economic issues. In our view, it has given inadequate attention to the broader ramifications of productivity, both in terms of shedding light on the importance of productivity for the advancement of various aspects of social...
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Inequality indices as tests of fairness
Kanbur, Ravi; Snell, Andy - 2017
Standard income inequality indices can be interpreted as a measure of welfare loss entailed in departures from equality … of outcomes, for egalitarian social welfare functions defined on the distribution of outcomes. But such a welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641764
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Social interactions in the labor market
Grodner, Andrew; Kniesner, Thomas J.; Bishop, John A. - 2011
We examine theoretically and empirically social interactions in labor markets and how policy prescriptions can change dramatically when there are social interactions present. Spillover effects increase labor supply and conformity effects make labor supply perfectly inelastic at a reference group...
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"It's not about the money. It's about sending a message!" : unpacking the components of revenge
Molńar, András; Chaudhry, Shereen J.; Loewenstein, … - 2020
We examine whether belief-based preferences - caring about what transgressors believe - play a crucial role in punishment decisions: Do punishers want to make sure that transgressors understand why they are being punished, and is this desire to affect beliefs often prioritized over distributive...
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Social networks and labor market inequality between ethnicities and races
Toomet, Ott; Leij, Marco van der; Rolfe, Meredith - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009724344
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Mothers, friends and gender identity
Olivetti, Claudia; Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2013
This paper explores a novel mechanism of gender identity formation. Specifically, we explore how the work behavior of a teenager's own mother, as well as that of her friends' mothers, affect her work decisions in adulthood. The first mechanism is commonly included in economic models. The second,...
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Social Capital as Patterns of Connections. A Review of Bankston’s "Immigrant Networks and Social Capital"
Sabatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Review of Immigrant Networks and Social Capital by Carl L. Bankston III. Cambridge, UK, and Malden, MA: Polity.
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Are commercial ceilings appropriate for the regulation of commercial overload on free-to-air TV channels? : conference paper
Rothbauer, Julia; Sieg, Gernot - 2014
affect their differentiation of program content. This study examines the welfare effects of commercial ceilings in a two …-sided free-to-air TV market, taking into account welfare with respect to content differentiation. We identify a second …-best commercial ceiling that maximizes welfare in the absence of enforceable program content regulation and identify the situations in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010483846
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Urban Accounting and Welfare
Desmet, Klaus; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
distribution into three main components: efficiency, amenities, and frictions. Higher efficiency and better amenities lead to … MSAs in the United States, we parametrize the model and empirically estimate efficiency, amenities and frictions … reallocations, though the welfare effects from these reallocations are small. Overall, we find that the gains from worker mobility …
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Labor market incorporation of immigrants in Japan and the United States : a comparative analysis
Cornelius, Wayne A.; Tsuda, Takeyuki - 2002
The most commonly used model of labor market incorporation among immigrants in the United States analyzes their earnings largely as a function of human capital variables such as education, language competence, age, length of residence and employment experience in the receiving country. However,...
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