JOSEPH LANFRANCHI  JOHN TREBLE 《The Manchester School》2010,78(5):460-483

Studies of sick‐pay and absenteeism have traditionally treated absence as a worker‐related phenomenon. There are good reasons to suppose, though, that firms' incentives to control absenteeism are not uniform. Using an employee/employer‐matched data set, we investigate the relationship between the firm's production methods and the generosity of its sick‐pay. The results suggest that firms that might be expected to value reliability highly, characterized as those that use just‐in‐time, are more likely to provide less generous sick‐pay. Those findings survive when we control for the use of complementary policies that buffer production from absence shocks.  相似文献   

    

SCOTT J. ADAMS  JOHN S. HEYWOOD 《The Manchester School》2011,79(3):381-404

This paper presents a model illustrating that deferred compensation increases effort (reduces shirking) by increasing the cost of job loss. Importantly, the size of this increase in effort shrinks as the chance of exogenous job separation grows. The paper tests the model's predictions using both US and Australian data. In both countries we find empirical results consistent with the model's predictions. Deferred compensation, as identified either by pensions or by steeper tenure–wage profiles, is associated with greater self‐reported worker effort. Moreover, when the probability of job separation is greater, the influence of deferred compensation diminishes.  相似文献   

    

THUTO BOTLHOLE  JOHN ASAFU‐ADJAYE  FABRIZIO CARMIGNANI 《The South African journal of economics. Suid-afrikaanse tydskrif vir ekonomie》2012,80(2):135-156

The contribution of natural resources to tax revenues has generally yielded mixed results in the literature. This study asserts that the missing link to explaining these differences is the quality of institutions. More resource revenues reduce tax revenues when institutions are poor. Using an interaction term for natural resources and institutional quality, we show that institutions are decisive for the contribution of natural resources to tax revenue mobilisation. The interaction effect is statistically significant after controlling for per capita gross domestic product (GDP), an alternative measure of quality of institutions and additional regressors. This finding is robust to different econometric specifications and the type of natural resources.  相似文献   

    

JOHN QUIGGIN 《The Economic record》1987,63(1):10-21

Over the past 20 years there has been a rapid development of public-choice theory: that is, the application of an assumption of egoistic utility maximization to political behaviour. In this paper it is argued that, in important areas, the available empirical evidence runs counter to this theory. The continuing work in this area therefore reflects ideological, rather than explanatory or predictive, concerns.  相似文献   

    

JOHN NIGHTINGALE 《Economic Papers: A journal of applied economics and policy》1990,9(1):55-64

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JOHN KERIN 《Economic Papers: A journal of applied economics and policy》1990,9(2):1-8

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JOHN W. CROSS  MURRAY L. SPINKS 《Economic Papers: A journal of applied economics and policy》1986,5(4):53-72

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ROBERT ALBON  JOHN PIGGOTT 《The Economic record》1983,59(1):80-87

It is argued that deregulation of housing interest rates would, under plausible assumptions, substantially increase the cost of housing finance in Australia, contrary to the impression created by the Final Report of the Australian Financial System Inquiry (the Campbell Report). Characteristics of the market for owner-occupier housing finance, on both the demand and supply sides, suggest that the deregulated market rate will be approximately equal to the uncontrolled rate under regulation. The weighted average interest rate for owner-occupier housing finance at December 1981 is more than three percentage points below the uncontrolled rate. The authors conclude that while this result does not of itself constitute an argument against deregulation, it does imply that deregulation would have a substantial distributional impact .  相似文献   

    

JOHN R. PRESLEY 《The Manchester School》1986,54(1):22-30

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JOHN E. KUSHMAN 《The Journal of consumer affairs》1984,18(1):1-21

Denturism is the making and fitting of dentures directly for the public by nondentists. It is an example of potential competitive entry in a health services market and, like other such examples, its economic benefits must be weighed against any threat to the public health and safety. This article examines evidence relating to the economic benefits to consumers of legalizing denturism. Conservative estimates are presented of the economic benefits to consumers that would accrue under alternative institutional arrangements. Under several such arrangements it was found that the value of benefits is of the same order of magnitude as total government expenditures on dental services.  相似文献