The empirical finding that exporting firms are more productive on average than non-exporters has provoked a large theoretical literature based on models such as Melitz (2003), where more productive firms are more likely ...
The empirical finding that exporting firms are more productive on average than non-exporters has provoked a large theoretical literature based on models such as Melitz (2003), where more productive firms are more likely ...
Small firms that offer health insurance to their employees may face variable premiums if the firm hires an employee with high-expected health costs. To avoid expensive premium variability, a small firm may attempt to ...
Small firms that offer health insurance to their employees may face variable premiums if the firm hires an employee with high-expected health costs. To avoid expensive premium variability, a small firm may attempt to ...
Hardiman, Niamh(University College Dublin. Institute for the Study of Social Change (Geary Institute), 2004)
The growing integration of international markets raises the question of how, and to what extent, domestic political processes within states continue to matter. The thesis that markets force a 'race to the bottom' and the ...
Modelling the incidence of self-employment has traditionally proved problematic. Whilst the individual supply side characteristics of the self-employed are well documented, the literature has largely neglected (or misspecified) ...
Governments, over much of the developed world, make significant financial
transfers to parents with dependent children. For example, in the US the
recently introduced Child Tax Credit (CTC), which goes to almost all ...
This paper investigates macro and micro determinants of support for EU membership in the new member and candidate countries of the EU. We find that favorable individual and regional characteristics are positively correlated ...
Non-domestic rates are a tax that is formally levied on the occupiers of non-domestic property in the UK. A study analyzes the effects of changes to business rates on a sample of 2,964 institutionally-owned commercial ...
This paper analyses the behaviour of TV gameshow contestants to estimate risk aversion. We are able to show that the gameshow participants are broadly representative of the population as a whole. The gameshow has a number ...
While foreign-owned firms have consistently been found to pay higher wages than domestic firms to what appear to be equally productive workers, the causes of this remain unresolved. In a two-period bargaining framework we ...
Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, ...
This paper examines the causal relationship between parents' education and that of their children in Norway. In 1959, the Norwegian Parliament legislated a mandatory school reform. In addition, the reform standardized the ...