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The effects of technical and organizational change on labor markets

Gärtner, Dennis - 2001

A new strand of literature has recently sought to investigate possible links between technological changes, observed modifications to firms' organizational structure and the evolution of the wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers. After a brief overview of such approaches, this essay...

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Economic internationalisation and the distribution of income : a comparison of the cases of Germany and the U.S.

Wacker, Ulrich - 2002

ofinternational trade theory. Focusing on general equilibrium frameworks stems from the insight that economicinternationalisation in … market issues established by human capital theory with the general equilibrium-leddebate on trade and the functional … ofinternational trade theory. Focusing on general equilibrium frameworks stems from the insight that economicinternationalisation in …

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Join the Leader, Imitate or Follow: Evolutionary Stable Strategies in the Commons

Schott, Stephan - 2010

"We develop an evolutionary game theory model for a limited access common pool resource. With full disclosure of …

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Monetary and labor policies under market frictions

Christian Merkl - 2007

The thesis analyzes monetary and labor policies under different market frictions. In the first part several versions of a microfounded dynamic general equilibrium model with monopolistic competitors in the product and/or labor market are derived and simulated. First of all, the monetary...

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Transfers, Agglomeration and German Unification

Ross, Matthias - 2001

This paper analyses in the framework of a 2-region economic geography model the impact of transfers on agglomeration of economic activity. Two main results can be derived: First, subsidies to the activity of firms are more efficient to avoid agglomeration than subsidies to consumers (social...

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CAP effects on labour use in agriculture: Evidence from alternative dynamic panel data models

Petrick, Martin; Zier, Patrick - 2010

Our aim is to investigate whether the direct payments and rural development measures of theEU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) do make jobs in agriculture safer. We work with adynamic labour demand equation that is augmented by the full set of policy instruments of theCAP. It is estimated on...

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Europäische Regionalpolitik im kooperativen Bundesstaat. Ein Politikfeld im Prozeß der deutschen Vereinigung.

Tausendpfund, Tina-Maria - 2001

teilweise hitzigen Verhandlungen zur Implementierungsphase der Regionalpolitik in Ostdeutschland 1994. Vor allem bei der …

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Agricultural Policy Reform and its Impact on Farm Household Income Inequality.

Mishra, Ashok; El-Osta, Hisham; Shaik, Saleem - 2010

In the United States the 1996 agricultural policy reform ushered in market-oriented farm policies and also gave farmers a seven-year lump-sum payment that was not tied to production. Some scholars argue that farm program payments have changed the distribution of income among farm households. Our...

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The Geography of New Manufacturing Technology: Implications for the Nonmetropolitan South.

McGranahan, David A. - 1999

Despite the growth in services. manufacturing remains an essential part of the nonmetropolitan South's economy, responsible for 25 percent of total personal earnings. But loweducation nonmetropolitan areas, which gained more than their share of manufacturing jobs in the 1970s and 1980s, lost...

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Determinants of economic well-being among U.S. farm operator households.

El-Osta, Hisham S.; Mishra, Ashok K.; Morehart, Mitchell J. - 2007

Participation in government programs has a mild impact on the economic well-being of U.S. farm households. Major factors that determine farm household prosperity are the primary operator's education level and ethnicity, education level of the spouse, and other characteristics such as forward...

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