Mark A Roberts
Biographic Data
| ID | 5487604 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark A Roberts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark A |
| FAMILY NAME | Roberts |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTS M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | World Bank |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6951-9105 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The student who makes misogynistic comments
You get on well with the male students you teach. Your relationships with boys are solid. They know you care about them and expect them to do well. You set firm but fair boundaries; there&s;s a feeling of mutual respect in your classroom.
Female entrepreneurs and productivity around the world
The heterogeneous growth effects of the business environment
Using firm-level data covering 709 cities in 128 countries, we examine the role of a comprehensive list of business and institutional environment variables at the sub-national level in explaining firm employment and productivity growth. We find basic protection (with corruption as an element), access to finance and infrastructure, and the existence of a strong agglomeration environment to be critically important. By contrast, human capital and a …
Efficient Aviation Security
The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction
Collection of 56 critical essays on science fiction, divided into ‘History’, ‘Theory’, ‘Issues and Challenges’ and ‘Subgenres’ sections.
Indian lands, “Squatterism,” and slavery
Funded Pensions, Labor Market Participation, and Economic Growth
This paper analyses a model of overlapping generations in which agents who are not in the labor market are unable to borrow. An increase in a fully funded pension raises aggregate savings since private savings are not crowded out one-for-one. Labor force participation is determined endogenously, and a rise in the level of fully funded pensions increases aggregate employment. This increase in employment augments growth, directly by raising per cap…
The Level of Wage Bargaining as a Firm–Union Choice
There is a trade‐off between central bargaining which allows local externalities to be internalized and local bargaining which gives firms and unions the scope to determine both wages and employment simultaneously and efficiently in the sense of McDonald and Solow (1981). A model of strong unions is presented where workers are also concerned with relative wages. The trade‐off is resolved by the individual firm and union on the basis of choice, us…
Female entrepreneurs and productivity around the world
Indian lands, “Squatterism,” and slavery
The heterogeneous growth effects of the business environment
Using firm-level data covering 709 cities in 128 countries, we examine the role of a comprehensive list of business and institutional environment variables at the sub-national level in explaining firm employment and productivity growth. We find basic protection (with corruption as an element), access to finance and infrastructure, and the existence of a strong agglomeration environment to be critically important. By contrast, human capital and a …
The Level of Wage Bargaining as a Firm–Union Choice
There is a trade‐off between central bargaining which allows local externalities to be internalized and local bargaining which gives firms and unions the scope to determine both wages and employment simultaneously and efficiently in the sense of McDonald and Solow (1981). A model of strong unions is presented where workers are also concerned with relative wages. The trade‐off is resolved by the individual firm and union on the basis of choice, us…
Funded Pensions, Labor Market Participation, and Economic Growth
This paper analyses a model of overlapping generations in which agents who are not in the labor market are unable to borrow. An increase in a fully funded pension raises aggregate savings since private savings are not crowded out one-for-one. Labor force participation is determined endogenously, and a rise in the level of fully funded pensions increases aggregate employment. This increase in employment augments growth, directly by raising per cap…
Indian lands, “Squatterism,” and slavery
The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction
Collection of 56 critical essays on science fiction, divided into ‘History’, ‘Theory’, ‘Issues and Challenges’ and ‘Subgenres’ sections.
Efficient Aviation Security
The heterogeneous growth effects of the business environment
Using firm-level data covering 709 cities in 128 countries, we examine the role of a comprehensive list of business and institutional environment variables at the sub-national level in explaining firm employment and productivity growth. We find basic protection (with corruption as an element), access to finance and infrastructure, and the existence of a strong agglomeration environment to be critically important. By contrast, human capital and a …
Female entrepreneurs and productivity around the world
The student who makes misogynistic comments
You get on well with the male students you teach. Your relationships with boys are solid. They know you care about them and expect them to do well. You set firm but fair boundaries; there&s;s a feeling of mutual respect in your classroom.
Economics (6 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Labour economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aeronautics (2 works) · Business (2 works)