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Immigration and the Distribution of Incomes

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence - CESifo - 2013

Immigration may impact income distribution both by affecting the skill composition of a country’s residents, and, by … immigration on the native income distribution. We then survey the evidence on this question for several countries, and conclude by … examining the impact of emigration on income distribution in the source country. …

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The Elasticity of Derived Demand, FactorSubstitution and Product Demand: Corrections to Hicks’ Formula and Marshall’s Four Rules

Chirinko, Robert S.; Mallick, Debdulal - CESifo - 2006

demand for productive factors, the distribution of factor incomes, and Marshall's Four Rules. This short paper notes that a …

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French CEO Compensations: What is the Cost of a Mandatory Upper Limit?

Llense, Fabienne - CESifo - 2008

In the middle of the nineties, the sharp increase in globalisation and the last privatization wave have promoted the shaping of a market for executives in France. Characteristics of this market are estimated for France and a competitive model is simulated in order to assess to what extend such a...

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Labour Market Institutions and the Personal Distribution of Income in the OECD

Checchi, Daniele; Garcia-Peñalosa, Cecilia - CESifo - 2005

We examine the determinants of differences across countries and over time in the distribution of personal incomes in … share, and the unemployment rate, hence labour market institutions are an essential determinant of the distribution of … distribution of personal incomes. …

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Shipment Frequency of Exporters and Demand Uncertainty

Békés, Gabor; Fontagné, Lionel Gérard; Murakozy, Balazs - CESifo - 2014

Firms adjust to differences in market size and demand uncertainty by changing the frequency and size of their export shipments. In our inventory model, transportation costs and optimal shipment frequency are determined on the basis of demand as well as inventory and per shipments costs. Using a...

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Asymmetric Neutrality Regulation and Innovation at the Edges: Fixed vs. Mobile Networks

Choi, Jay Pil; Jeon, Doh-Shin; Kim, Byung-Cheol - CESifo - 2014

We study how net neutrality regulations affect a high-bandwidth content provider’s (CP) investment incentives in quality of services (QoS). We find that the effects crucially depend on network capacity levels. With limited capacity, as in mobile networks, prioritized delivery services are...

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Are Donors Afraid of Charities' Core Costs? Scale Economies in Non-profit Provision and Charity Selection

Perroni, Carlo; Pogrebna, Ganna; Sandford, Sarah; … - CESifo - 2014

We study contestability in non-profit markets when non-commercial providers supply a homogeneous collective good through increasing-returns-to-scale technologies. Unlike in the case of for-profit competition, in the non-profit case the absence of price-based sales contracts means that fixed...

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Newspaper Differentiation and Investments in Journalism: The Role of Tax Policy

Kind, Hans Jarle; Schjelderup, Guttorm; Stähler, Frank - CESifo - 2011

Many countries levy reduced-rate indirect taxes on newspapers, with proclaimed policy goals of stimulating investment in journalism and ensuring low newspaper prices. However, by taking into account the fact that the media industry operates in two-sided markets, we find the paradoxical result...

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Bargaining over Residential Real Estate: Evidence from England

Merlo, Antonio M.; Ortalo-Magné, François - CESifo - 2002

This paper presents and investigates a new data set of individual residential property transactions in England. The main novelty of the data is the record of all listing price changes and all offers made on a property, as well as all the visits by potential buyers for a subset of the properties....

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Market Liberalization in the European Natural Gas Market - The Importance of Capacity Constraints and Efficiency Differences

Brakman, Steven; Marrewijk, Charles van; … - CESifo - 2009

In the European Union, energy markets are increasingly being liberalized. A case in point is the European natural gas industry. The general expectation is that more competition will lead to lower prices and higher volumes, and hence higher welfare. This paper indicates that this might not happen...

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