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Monopsony in labor markets : a meta-analysis
Sokolova, Anna; Sorensen, Todd - 2018
When jobs offered by different employers are not perfect substitutes in the minds of workers, employers gain wage-setting power; the extent of this power can be captured by the elasticity of labor supply that each employer faces. Estimates of this parameter reported by the literature vary...
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Does employment protection affect unemployment? : a meta-analysis
Heimberger, Philipp - 2020
Despite extensive research efforts, the magnitude of the effect of employment protection legislation (EPL) on unemployment remains unclear. Existing econometric estimates exhibit substantial variation, and it is therefore difficult to draw valid conclusions. This paper applies meta-analysis and...
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Who bears labour taxes and social contributions? : a meta-analysis
Melguizo, Ángel; González-Páramo, José Manuel - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 4 (2013) 3, pp. 247-271
In this paper we apply the meta-regression technique to survey the empirical literature on the economic incidence of labour taxes and social security contributions. In particular, we focus on the effects of taxation on wages to test the conventional view that employees bear the burden due to...
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Which schools and pupils respond to educational achievement surveys? : a focus on the English PISA sample
Schnepf, Sylke V.; Durrant, Gabriele B.; Micklewright, John - 2014
Using logistic and multilevel logistic modelling we examine non-response at the school and pupil level to the important educational achievement survey Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) for England. The analysis exploits unusually rich auxiliary information on all schools and...
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Who accepts bribery? : evidence from a global household survey
Lambsdorff, Johann - 2010
This paper processes responses from households in 66 countries to address differences in the extent to which bribes and gifts are considered acceptable. Levels of acceptance differ substantially from one country to another, but they do not conform to popular expectations: Respondents in rich,...
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Public Attitudes Towards Central Bank Independence
Hayat, Muhammad Azmat; Farvaque, Etienne - 2011
This study examines public opinion in 15 European countries, on the proposal to establish an independent European Central Bank (ECB). Using data from Eurobarometer surveys for 1998 to 2000, which included a specific question on this, we show that inflation performance is not sufficient to...
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How elastic is labor demand? : a meta-analysis for the German labor market
Popp, Martin - In: Journal for labour market research 57 (2023) 1, pp. 1-21
The own-wage elasticity of labor demand measures the effect of higher wages on firms’ demand for labor and, thus, determines the impact of supply shocks, minimum wages, and collective wage agreements on the labor market. I carry out a comprehensive meta-analysis to shed light on the nature of...
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Measuring tax complexity across countries : a survey study on MNCs
Hoppe, Thomas; Schanz, Deborah; Sturm, Susann; Sureth, Caren - 2019
complexity measure. This paper fills this gap and introduces the Tax Complexity Index (TCI), which consists of a tax code …
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Individual and Neighborhood Determinants of Survey Nonresponse: An Analysis Based on a New Subsample of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), Microgeographic Characteristics and...
Schräpler, Jörg-Peter; Schupp, Jürgen; Wagner, Gert G. - 2010
This study examines the phenomenon of nonresponse in the first wave of a refresher sample (subsample H) of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). Our first step is to link additional (commercial) microgeographic data on the immediate neighborhoods of the households visited by...
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Politisches Informationsverhalten: Gespräche und traditionelle Medien liegen vorn
Schüler, Ruth M.; Niehues, Judith; Diermeier, Matthias - 2021
soziale Medien. Dies zeigt eine Auswertung der im Sommer 2020 erstmals durchgeführten deutschlandweiten Befragung der Ruhr … auch die Verbreitung von Falschmeldungen, so genannten fake news, begünstigt hat. Auch wenn in Deutschland die … Glaubwürdigkeit der traditionellen Medien weit höher ist, deuten Analysen auch für Deutschland auf eine zunehmende Bedeutung von Fake …
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