In this paper I try to determine whether international trade has been increasing the own-price elasticity of demand for … elasticity patterns. Thus the time series of labor-demand elasticities are explained largely by a residual, time itself. This … residual for changing factor prices over time, there also appears to be a large unexplained residual for changing factor demand …

elasticity of revenues with respect to the tax rate over a ten-year period is -0.5 to -0.3, indicating that capital gains tax …

of the largest on-demand labor platforms, Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk), by measuring the elasticity of labor supply …

an estimate of the taxable income elasticity from the bunching pattern around a kink point. The bunching estimator has … identify the taxable income elasticity when the functional form of the distribution of preference heterogeneity is unknown. We … with any positive taxable income elasticity if the distribution of heterogeneity is unrestricted …

assumptions about the long run effect of wages rates on labor supply. The available estimates of the wage elasticity of male labor … function. Our estimates suggest that the elasticity of labor supply is about -0.2, implying that income effects dominate …

to 2005, we examine the effects of gasoline prices on the automotive fleet's composition. We find that high gasoline … prices affect fleet fuel economy through two channels: (1) shifting new auto purchases towards more fuel-efficient vehicles … estimates suggest that a 10% increase in gasoline prices from 2005 levels will generate a 0.22% increase in fleet fuel economy …

One of the most important behavioral parameters in macroeconomics is the elasticity of intertemporal substitution (EIS …

the micro level means that the aggregate labour supply elasticity is not a structural parameter: any aggregate elasticity …

Econometric estimates of the responsiveness of health-related consumer demand to higher prices are often key … the price-elasticity of smoking help predict trends in smoking from 1995 to 2010. The demographics of the smoking … population in our baseline year predict a downward trend in smoking even if cigarette prices remained constant. Average cigarette …