Search Results - subject:"labour supply preferences"

Willing to pay for security : a discrete choice experiment to analyse labour supply preferences

Datta, Nikhil - 2019

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Temporary Contracts and Monopsony Powerin the UK Labour Market

Tabasso, Domenico - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

This paper addresses the applicability of the theory of equalizing differences (Rosen, 1987) ina market in which temporary and permanent workers co-exist. The assumption of perfectcompetition in the labour market is directly questioned and a model is developed in which thelabour market is...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009347587

Do Frictions Matter in the Labor Market?Accessions, Separations and Minimum Wage Effects

Dube, Arindrajit; Lester, T. William; Reich, Michael - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

We measure labor market frictions using a strategy that bridges design-based and structuralapproaches: estimating an equilibrium search model using reduced-form minimum wageelasticities identified from border discontinuities and fitted with Bayesian and LIML methods.We begin by providing the...

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Estimating the Wage Elasticity of Labour Supplyto a Firm: What Evidence Is There for Monopsony?

Booth, Alison L.; Katic, Pamela - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

In this paper we estimate the elasticity of the labour supply to a firm, using data from theHousehold, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. Estimation of thiselasticity is of particular interest not only in its own right but also because of its relevance tothe debate about the...

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Endogenous Monopsony and the Perverse Effectof the Minimum Wage in Small Firms

Danziger, Leif - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009

The minimum wage rate has been introduced in many countries as a means of alleviating thepoverty of the working poor. This paper shows, however, that an imperfectly enforcedminimum wage rate causes small firms to face an upward-sloping labor supply schedule.Since this turns these firms into...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360625

Industry Structure, Procurement and Innovation in the UK Defence Sector

James, Andrew D.; Hall, Peter - Manchester Business School - 2008

There is agreement within industrial organisation economics that an inverted U-shaperelationship exists between the level of competition in an industry and the level of innovation inthat industry. Thus, when consolidation changes the level of competition in an industry wemight expect this to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870628

Job changes and hours changes: Understanding the path of labour supply adjustment

Blundell, Richard W.; Brewer, Mike; Francesconi, Marco - 2007

confirmed when we look at hours changes by stated labour supply preferences. Finally, we find little overall effect of the …

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Job Changes and Hours Changes:Understanding the Path of Labour Supply Adjustment

Blundell, Richard W.; Brewer, Mike; Francesconi, Marco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

22 Keywords: job mobility, hours flexibility, labour supply preferences, hours-wage trade-off, monopsony … mobility) or stated labour supply preferences (Ham, 1982; Moffitt, 1984; Lundberg, 1985; Altonji and Paxson, 1988; Stewart and … Swaffield, 1997; Euwals, 2001). These two strategies are problematic because changes in labour supply preferences or other …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861861

Optimal Taxation and Monopsonistic Labor Market:Does Monopsony Justify the Minimum Wage?

Cahuc, Pierre; Laroque, Guy - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We analyze optimal taxation in an economy with monopsonistic labor markets. Theindividuals, whose only decisions are whether to work, or not, have heterogeneousproductivities and opportunity costs of work. Given its preferences for redistribution, thegovernment, which does not observe the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862338

Job changes, hours changes and labour market flexibility: Panel data evidence for Britain

Blundell, Richard W.; Brewer, Mike; Francesconi, Marco - 2005

This study uses the first twelve waves of the British Household Panel Survey covering the period 1991-2002 to investigate the extent of constraints on desired hours of work within jobs and the degree of flexibility of the labour market for a sample of women. Our main findings are as follows....

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