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How Market Infrastructure Improves Market Efficiency? Case of Cotton Market in India

Kumar, Manoj - 2009

Agricultural marketing in India is an inevitable issue before the policy makers these days as an efficient and adequate marketing system is a precondition for the agricultural growth and its diversification of crop production by providing better prices to producers and availability of food or...

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Inequality and occupational change in times of Revolution : the Tunisian perspective

Marouani, Mohamed Ali; Phuong Minh Le - 2022

The public sector plays a large role in many developing economies, but its effect on earnings inequality dynamics has not been widely studied. In this paper, we investigate the earnings inequality trends and their determinants in the decades before and after the Tunisian Revolution, focusing on...

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One Way the Demand for Labor May Adapt to the Availability of Labor

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2012

coming to employers instead of the latter seeking them out and (2) the larger set of potential employees would increase the … probability of employers finding individuals suitable for unfilled jobs. Moreover, individuals seeking employment may engender … employers to think of new ways in which labor can be used. An increase in the number of entrants to the labor force would lower …

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The Newly Increased Minimum Wage : Congress’s Way of Robbing Peter to Pay Paul

Jyles, Ashley - 2010

different classes of workers. Case law relating to enforcing minimum wages is also discussed to demonstrate how employers will … before enforcing the act and now employers, taxpayers, and the working poor all have to pay for this negligence. Congress …

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One way the demand for labor may adapt to the availability of labor

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2012

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Fear of labor rigidities : the role of expectations on employment growth in Peru

Lavado, Pablo; Yamada, Gustavo - 2015

Many studies have been conducted to analyze the effect of stricter Employment Protection Legislation (EPL). However, almost all of them has focused on an ex-post impact; leaving aside a second but equally important channel: expectations. This paper aims to analyze the role of expectations on...

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Political power, resistance to technological change and economic development : evidence from the 19th century Sweden

Tyrefors, Björn; Lindgren, Erik; Pettersson-Lidbom, Per - 2017 - This version: June 16, 2017

We analyze investment decisions when information is costly, with and without delegation to an agent. We use a rational-inattention model and compare it with a canonical signal-extraction model. We identify three "investment conditions". In "sour" conditions, no information is acquired and no...

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The effect of mandatory paid sick leave laws on labor market outcomes, health care utilization, and health behaviors

Callison, Kevin; Pesko, Michael F. - 2016

We evaluate the impact of paid sick leave (PSL) mandates on labor market outcomes, the utilization of health care services, and health behaviors for private sector workers in the United States. By exploiting geographic and temporal variation in PSL mandate adoption, we compare changes in...

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For Better or Worse? The Economic Implications of Paid Sick Leave Mandates

Al-Sabah, Turk; Ouimet, Paige - 2022

Public calls for a national paid sick leave policy continue to grow in the United States. In the absence of a federal policy, many localities and states enacted their own paid sick leave mandates. We document an average increase of 1.9% in employment following the implementation of a paid sick...

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FLSA Working Hours Reform : Worker Well-Being Effects in an Economic Framework

Golden, Lonnie M. - 2015

A model is developed to predict the effects of recently proposed amendments to the FLSA workweek and overtime provisions. It contrasts allowing compensatory time for overtime pay for private non-exempt employees to “rights to request” reduced hours. It finds that hours demanded are likely to...

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