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Wage Equalization and Regional Misallocation : Evidence from Italian and German Provinces
Boeri, Tito - 2019
Italy and Germany have similar geographical differences in productivity - North more productive than South in Italy …; West more productive than East in Germany - but have adopted different models of wage bargaining. Italy sets wages based on … nationwide contracts that allow for limited local wage adjustments, while Germany has moved toward a more flexible system that …
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Good bye Lenin (or not?) : The Effect of Communism on People's Preferences
Alesina, Alberto - 2005
Preferences for redistribution, as well as the generosities of welfare states, differ significantly across countries. In this paper, we test whether there exists a feedback process of the economic regime on individual preferences. We exploit the "experiment" of German separation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466972
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Colonial Origins, Property Rights, and the Organization of Agricultural Production : the US Midwest and Argentine Pampas Compared
Edwards, Eric C. - 2020
We examine the origins, persistence, and economic consequences of institutional structures of agricultural production. We compare farms in the Argentine Pampas and US Midwest, regions of similar potential input and output mixes. The focus is on 1910-1914, during the international grain trade...
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The Depressing Effect of Agricultural Institutions on the Prewar Japanese Economy
Hayashi, Fumio - 2006
stay in agriculture …
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Moving out of Agriculture : Structural Change in Vietnam
McCaig, Brian - 2013
discuss the role of reforms in agriculture, enterprises, and international integration in this process. In addition to the … drastic move of employment away from agriculture toward services and manufacturing, we also document the movement of workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459045
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State Capitalism vs. Private Enterprise
Ljungqvist, Alexander - 2015
We study the efficiency of capital allocations at state-controlled and privately owned business groups in China. Using highly granular data on within-group capital transfers, we document stark differences: while private groups allocate more capital to units with better investment opportunities,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457736
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Two Mezzogiornos
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2001
The analogy between the economic problems of the Mezzogiorno region and East Germany has been initially contested by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470604
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Growing in Debt : The 'Farm Crisis' and Public Policy
Calomiris, Charles W. - 1986
unable for institutional reasons to diversify their loan risks either within agriculture or across other geographically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012476985
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Modeling the Impacts of Agricultural Support Policies on Emissions from Agriculture
Laborde, David - 2020
) emissions from agriculture. In a step towards a full evaluation of the impacts, it uses a counterfactual global model scenario … that currently tax agriculture have high emission intensities. Policies that directly reduce emission intensities yield …
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Top Executives, Turnover and Firm Performance in Germany
Kaplan, Steven N. - 1993
performance in the largest companies in Germany in the 1980s. The management board turns over slowly -- at a rate of 10% per year … -- implying that top executives in Germany have longer tenures than their counterparts in the U.S. and Japan. Turnover of the …
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