作者：Bernard, Tanguy; Dercon, Stefan; Orkin, Kate; Schinaia, Giulio; Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum
作者单位：Universite de Bordeaux; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); INRAE; University of Oxford; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; University of Chicago; CGIAR; International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
摘要：Aspirations may condition the future-oriented choices of individuals and thus may play a role in the persistence of poverty or the effort to break out of it. We run a randomized controlled trial in remote, rural Ethiopia to explore this and evaluate an intervention that aims to change how poor people perceive their future opportunities, alter their aspirations, and through that, modify their investment decisions. A treatment group was shown video documentaries featuring individuals from simila...
作者：Dodini, Samuel; Stansbury, Anna; Willen, Alexander
作者单位：Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Dallas; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
摘要：If unions raise worker wages, who pays? We provide a comprehensive assessment of firm responses to increased unionization, using changes in the tax deductibility of union dues in Norway as a quasi-exogenous source of variation in firm-level union density. In the average private sector firm, higher union density raises labor costs and leads firms to contract employment and production, lowering profits without increasing the labor share. The incidence is shared: consumers bear part of the cost t...
