DANIEL SCHWAB
Biographic Data
| ID | 6026599 |
|---|---|
| NAME | DANIEL SCHWAB |
| GIVEN NAMES | DANIEL |
| FAMILY NAME | SCHWAB |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWAB D |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of the Holy Cross |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7473-0426 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Legal Protection against Retaliatory Firing Improves Workplace Safety
Workplace safety policies are designed to ensure that employers internalize the costs of injuries, but employers can undermine these policies with threats of dismissal. We show that states’ adoption of the public policy exception to at-will employment—an exception forbidding employers from firing workers for filing workers’ compensation claims or for whistleblowing—led to a substantial reduction in injuries. The widespread adoption of the public …
Umwege zur Freiheit
Umwege Zur Freiheit
Are economic rents good for development? Evidence from the manufacturing sector
Are rents, or excess profits, good for development? Rents could induce firms to lobby or bribe governments to preserve the status quo; on the other hand, rents may promote growth by giving firms the needed funds to make investments in fixed capital or research and development. To test this question empirically, we use a panel of manufacturing data at the industry-country-year level, and measure rents by the mark-up ratio. We find that the relatio…
Are economic rents good for development? Evidence from the manufacturing sector
Are rents, or excess profits, good for development? Rents could induce firms to lobby or bribe governments to preserve the status quo; on the other hand, rents may promote growth by giving firms the needed funds to make investments in fixed capital or research and development. To test this question empirically, we use a panel of manufacturing data at the industry-country-year level, and measure rents by the mark-up ratio. We find that the relatio…
Are economic rents good for development? Evidence from the manufacturing sector
Are rents, or excess profits, good for development? Rents could induce firms to lobby or bribe governments to preserve the status quo; on the other hand, rents may promote growth by giving firms the needed funds to make investments in fixed capital or research and development. To test this question empirically, we use a panel of manufacturing data at the industry-country-year level, and measure rents by the mark-up ratio. We find that the relatio…
Umwege zur Freiheit
Umwege Zur Freiheit
Legal Protection against Retaliatory Firing Improves Workplace Safety
Workplace safety policies are designed to ensure that employers internalize the costs of injuries, but employers can undermine these policies with threats of dismissal. We show that states’ adoption of the public policy exception to at-will employment—an exception forbidding employers from firing workers for filing workers’ compensation claims or for whistleblowing—led to a substantial reduction in injuries. The widespread adoption of the public …
Economics (2 works) · Business (1 work) · Compensation (psychology) (1 work) · Dismissal (1 work) · Economic growth (1 work) · Economic Growth and Productivity (1 work) · Economic rent (1 work) · Economic theories and models (1 work) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (1 work) · Free will and determinism (1 work)