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Reforming Occupational Licensing in the US : Reducing Social Costs and Increasing Social Benefits in the Legal, Medical, and Financial Services Professions

Winston, Clifford (ed.) - 2024

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Can Deregulating the Legal Industry: Significantly Benefit American Society? -- Chapter 3: Is Deregulating the Medical Profession Just What the Doctor Ordered? -- Chapter 4: Balancing Flexibility and Integrity: Reforming Licensing in Accounting and Financial...

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Care data infrastructure : a US case study

Folbre, Nancy - In: Review of income and wealth 70 (2024) 1, pp. 239-250

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Better together : active and passive labor market policies in developed and developing economies

Pignatti, Clemente; Van Belle, Eva - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 12 (2021) 1, pp. 1-27

We investigate the macroeconomic impact of public expenditure in active labor market policies (ALMPs) and passive labor market policies (PLMPs) on main employment indicators (i.e., unemployment, employment, and labor force participation) for a large and novel panel database of 121 countries (36...

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Modelling artificial intelligence in economics

Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - 2021

Economists' two main theoretical approaches to understanding Artificial Intelligence (AI) impacts have been the task-approach to labor markets and endogenous growth theory. Therefore, the recent integration of the task-approach into an endogenous growth model by Acemoglu and Restrepo (AR) is a...

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What determines own-account work in Colombia? : some empirical evidence for the years 2010 and 2013

Burbano Vallejo, Edy Lorena; Castro Aristizabal, Geovanny; … - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 32 (2021), pp. 274-299

The main objective of this paper is to analyze the effect of education, age, access to ICTs and physical and financial assets, as well as other personal and socio-economic characteristics on the probability of being a formal or informal own-account worker. In order to achieve this purpose,...

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Essays on macroeconomics and inequality

Wacks, Johannes - 2021

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Essays in health and labor economics

Chuard, Patrick - 2021

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From causal inference to machine learning : four essays in empirical economics

Kaiser, Michael Rainer Johann - 2021

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Escalation of commitment and CEO departures : theory and evidence

Chulkov, Dmitriy V.; Barron, John M. - In: Journal of business economics and management 22 (2021) 6, pp. 1416-1435

The escalation of commitment process involves a decision-maker continuing commitment to an investment after receiving negative information. This study develops a principal-agent model to explore how escalation decisions are linked with departures of CEOs from the position.  With asymmetric...

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Integrating Gender into a Labor Economics Class

Strenio, Jacqueline; van der Meulen Rodgers, Yana - 2023

This article argues that a systematic integration of gender into labor economics courses based on standard textbooks is … both beneficial and straightforward. An undergraduate course in labor economics presents an ideal opportunity to introduce … review the most popular textbooks in labor economics and show how gender issues are mostly contained in a single chapter on …

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