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How to Use One Instrument to Identify Two Elasticities
Gavrilova, Evelina; Zoutman, Floris; Hopland, Arnt Ove - 2017
We show that an insight from taxation theory allows identification of both the supply and demand elasticities with only one instrument. Ramsey (1928) and subsequent models of taxation assume that a tax levied on the demand side only affects demand through the price after taxation....
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Occupational Match Quality and Gender over Two Cohorts
Addison, John T.; Liwen, Chen; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - 2018
Using a multi-dimensional measure of occupational mismatch, we report distinct gender differences in match quality and changes in match quality over the course of careers. A substantial portion of the gender wage gap stems from match quality differences among more educated individuals....
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How Does Working-Time Flexibility Affect Workers' Productivity in a Routine Job? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Boltz, Marie; Cockx, Bart; Diaz, Ana Maria; Salas, Luz … - 2020
We conducted an experiment in which we hired workers under different types of contracts to evaluate how flexible … sorting and behavioral effects. We find that all forms of working-time flexibility reduce the length of workers’ breaks. For … part-time work, these positive effects are globally counterbalanced. Yet arrangements that allow workers to decide when to …
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Automation, Growth, and Factor Shares in the Era of Population Aging
Irmen, Andreas - 2021
How does population aging affect economic growth and factor shares in times of increasingly automatable production processes? The present paper addresses this question in a new macroeconomic model of automation where competitive firms perform tasks to produce output. Tasks require labor and...
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Scars of Recessions in a Rigid Labor Market
Cockx, Bart; Ghirelli, Corinna - 2015
We study the impact of graduating in a recession in Flanders (Belgium), i.e. in a rigid labor market. In the presence of a high minimum wage, a typical recession hardly influences the hourly wage of low educated men, but reduces working time and earnings by about 4.5% up to twelve years after...
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Occupational Match Quality and Gender Over Two Cohorts
Addison, John T. - 2019
Using a multi-dimensional measure of occupational mismatch, we report distinct gender differences in match quality and changes in match quality over the course of careers. A substantial portion of the gender wage gap stems from match quality differences among more educated individuals....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892236
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Automation, Growth, and Factor Shares in the Era of Population Aging
Irmen, Andreas - 2021
How does population aging affect economic growth and factor shares in times of increasingly automatable production processes? The present paper addresses this question in a new macroeconomic model of automation where competitive firms perform tasks to produce output. Tasks require labor and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218295
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How Does Working-Time Flexibility Affect Workers' Productivity in a Routine Job? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Boltz, Marie; Cockx, Bart; Diaz, Ana Maria; Salas, Luz - 2021
We conducted an experiment in which we hired workers under different types of contracts to evaluate how flexible … sorting and behavioral effects. We find that all forms of working-time flexibility reduce the length of workers’ breaks. For … part-time work, these positive effects are globally counterbalanced. Yet arrangements that allow workers to decide when to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315039
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Labor Demand in the Past, Present and Future
Graetz, Georg - 2020
been costly to individual workers, but labor demand has remained strong, and real wages have steadily increased in line … for workers' standard of living as well as their ability to adjust to a changing labor market, obtaining accurate …
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Cyclical unemployment, structural unemployment
Diamond, Peter A. - 2013
Whenever unemployment stays high for an extended period, it is common to see analyses, statements, and rebuttals about the extent to which the high unemployment is structural, not cyclical. This essay views the Beveridge Curve pattern of unemployment and vacancy rates and the related matching...
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