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Frontier issues of the political economy of migration

Epstein, Gil S. - 2012

Migration has a strong economic impact on the sending and host countries. Since individuals and groups do not benefit equally from migration, interest groups emerge to protect and take care of their narrow self-interests and compete for rents generated by migration. Narrow self-interests may be...

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Worker cooperatives and democratic governance

Pencavel, John H. - 2012

A worker co-operative is a firm that is owned and managed by those who work in it. This paper provides a selective review of research in economics on worker cooperatives. It concentrates on the volatility of earnings and employment in the co-ops compared with conventional capitalist firms; on...

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Migration, international trade and capital formation: Cause or effect?

Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Grossmann, Volker; Kohler, … - 2012

the effects of migration on the accumulation of both knowledge and human capital, by invoking endogenous growth theory …

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A control function approach to estimating dynamic probit models with endogenous regressors, with an application to the study of poverty persistence in China

Giles, John T.; Murtazashvili, Irina - 2012

This paper proposes a parametric approach to estimating a dynamic binary response panel data model that allows for endogenous contemporaneous regressors. Such a model is of particular value for settings in which one wants to estimate the effects of an endogenous treatment on a binary outcome. In...

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A flexible sample selection model: A GTL-copula approach

Hasebe, Takuya; Vijverberg, Wim P. M. - 2012

In this paper, we propose a new approach to estimating sample selection models that combines Generalized Tukey Lambda (GTL) distributions with copulas. The GTL distribution is a versatile univariate distribution that permits a wide range of skewness and thick- or thin-tailed behavior in the data...

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Can taxes stabilize the economy in the presence of consumption externalities?

Lloyd-Braga, Teresa; Modesto, Leonor - 2012

Considering a finance constrained economy, we discuss the stabilization role of variable labour and capital income taxes under a balanced-budget rule in the presence of consumption externalities of the keeping up with the Joneses type. We find that sufficiently procyclical labor and/or capital...

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An experimental test of a committee search model

Hizen, Yoichi; Kawata, Keisuke; Sasaki, Masaru - 2012

The objective of this paper is to design a laboratory experiment for an infinite-horizon sequential committee search model in order to test some of the implications obtained by the model in Albrecht, Anderson, and Vroman (2010) (AAV). We find that, compared with single-agent search, the search...

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Efficiency in a search and matching economy with a competitive informal sector

Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck; Ulus, Mustafa - 2012

We consider a dual labor market with a frictional formal sector and a competitive informal sector. We show that the size of the informal sector is generally too large compared to the optimal allocation of the workers. It follows that our results give a rationale to informality-reducing policies.

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The fixed wage puzzle: Why profit sharing is so hard to implement

Jerger, Jürgen; Michaelis, Jochen - 2010

It is well known that profit sharing arrangements Pareto-dominate fixed wage contracts. Share agreements are (far) less than ubiquitous, however. This paper offers a solution of this 'fixed wage puzzle' by adopting a perspective of bounded rationality. We show that share arrangements that...

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The dependence of prices on labour-values

Guerrero, Diego - In: Atlantic Review of Economics 1 (2011), pp. 1-33

It is frequently believed, in a quite schizophrenic fashion, that a theory of value must just solve the question of … relative prices (a microeconomic problem), being mainly the theory of money the piece needed for determining the absolute or … theoretically prior to any consideration of the money market, whereas on the other hand no theory of value can aspire to be complete …

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