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Institute for the Study of Labor

NonprofitBonn, Germany
About: Institute for the Study of Labor is a nonprofit organization based out in Bonn, Germany. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Wage & Unemployment. The organization has 2039 authors who have published 13475 publications receiving 439376 citations.
Topics: Wage, Unemployment, Earnings, Population, Productivity


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TL;DR: In this paper, a class of models in which the correlation among the counts is represented by correlated latent effects is proposed and a tuned and efficient Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm is developed to estimate the model under both multivariate normal and multivariate-t assumptions on the latent effects.
Abstract: This article is concerned with the analysis of correlated count data. A class of models is proposed in which the correlation among the counts is represented by correlated latent effects. Special cases of the model are discussed and a tuned and efficient Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm is developed to estimate the model under both multivariate normal and multivariate-t assumptions on the latent effects. The methods are illustrated with two real data examples of six and sixteen variate correlated counts.

227 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the association between education expenditure decentralization and the productive efficiency of schools using a data-set of Swiss cantons has been examined empirically by looking at the association of education expenditure and educational attainment.
Abstract: Advocates of fiscal decentralization argue that amongst other benefits, it can increase the efficiency of delivery of government services This paper is one of the first to evaluate this claim empirically by looking at the association between education expenditure decentralization and the productive efficiency of schools using a data-set of Swiss cantons We first provide careful evidence that expenditure decentralization is a powerful proxy for legal local autonomy Further panel regressions of Swiss cantons provide robust evidence that more decentralization is associated with higher educational attainment We also show that these gains lead to no adverse effects across education types but that male students benefited more from educational decentralization closing, for the Swiss case, the gender education gap

226 citations

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TL;DR: The authors examines various definitions of Kornai?s soft budget constraint and the difficulties involved in interpreting data on losses, subsidies and financing, and then considers selective evidence from transition economies.
Abstract: This paper first examines various definitions of Kornai?s soft budget constraint (SBC) and the difficulties involved in interpreting data on losses, subsidies and financing, and then considers selective evidence from transition economies. Stocks of overdue trade credit are no larger than in Western economies and firms in transition economies (TEs) typically impose hard budget constraints on each other. Banks have not been a systematic source of SBCs as often as is sometimes argued on the basis of data on classified loans; in 1992 Hungarian banks were imposing hard budget constraints on firms at the same time that they were classifying large volumes of their loans as bad. Tax arrears have emerged as a major source, and in the rapidly reforming TEs, the major source, of SBC?s.

224 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the link between RD usually constituting the majority of firms in industrialized economies using the German KfW SME panel, and found that while firms engage in innovative activities with smaller probability, the smaller they are, for those firms that do make such investment, R&D intensity is larger the smaller firms are.
Abstract: We analyze the link between RD usually constituting the majority of firms in industrialized economies. Using the German KfW SME panel, we examine to what extent micro firms are different from other firms in terms of innovativeness. We find that while firms engage in innovative activities with smaller probability, the smaller they are, for those firms that do make such investment, R&D intensity is larger the smaller firms are. For all MSMEs, the predicted R&D intensity is positively correlated with the probability of reporting innovation, with a larger effect size for product than for process innovations. Moreover, micro firms benefit in a comparable way from innovation processes as larger firms, as they are similarly able to increase their labor productivity. Overall, the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in micro firms does not largely differ from their larger counterparts.

223 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess how unions in the U.S. private sector affect economic performance - productivity, profitability, investment, and growth - and explore avenues through which individual and collective voice might be enhanced, focusing on labor law and workplace governance defaults.
Abstract: Twenty years have passed since Freeman and Medoff's What Do Unions Do? This essay assesses their analysis of how unions in the U.S. private sector affect economic performance - productivity, profitability, investment, and growth. Freeman and Medoff are clearly correct that union productivity effects vary substantially across workplaces. Their conclusion that union effects are on average positive and substantial cannot be sustained, subsequent evidence suggests an average union productivity effect near zero. Their speculation that productivity effects are larger in more competitive environments appears to hold up, although more evidence is needed. Subsequent literature continues to find unions associated with lower profitability, as noted by Freeman and Medoff. Unions are found to tax returns stemming from market power, but industry concentration is not the source of such returns. Rather, unions capture firm quasi-rents arising from long-lived tangible and intangible capital and from firm-specific advantages. Lower profits and the union tax on asset returns leads to reduced investment and, subsequently, lower employment and productivity growth. There is little evidence that unionization leads to higher rates of business failure. Given the decline in U.S. private sector unionism, I explore avenues through which individual and collective voice might be enhanced, focusing on labor law and workplace governance defaults. Substantial enhancement of voice requires change in the nonunion sector and employer as well as worker initiatives. It is unclear whether labor unions would be revitalized or further marginalized by such an evolution.

223 citations


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NameH-indexPapersCitations
Michael Marmot1931147170338
James J. Heckman175766156816
Anders Björklund16576984268
Jean Tirole134439103279
Ernst Fehr131486108454
Matthew Jones125116196909
Alan B. Krueger11740275442
Eric A. Hanushek10944959705
David Card10743355797
M. Hashem Pesaran10236188826
Richard B. Freeman10086046932
Richard Blundell9348761730
John Haltiwanger9139338803
John A. List9158336962
Joshua D. Angrist8930459505
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
202332
202283
2021146
2020259
2019191
2018229