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Population aging and the direction of technical change
Irmen, Andreas - 2009
An analytical framework is developed to study the repercussions between endogenous capital- and labor-saving technical change and population aging. Following an intuition often attributed to Hicks (1932), I ask whether and how population aging affects the relative scarcity of factors of...
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How to measure the tax burden on labour at the macro-level?
Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Volkerink, Bjørn - 2003
The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, we survey the way in which the tax burden on labour has been proxied for … extent the conclusions of some studies change if some alternative indicator for the tax burden on labour is employed. We … indicator for the tax burden on labour is also shown to affect the conclusions of some well-known empirical models. …
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How much do workers actually value working from home?
Nagler, Markus; Rincke, Johannes; Winkler, Erwin - 2022
Working from home (WFH) has become ubiquitous around the world. We ask how much workers actually value this job attribute. Using a stated-preference experiment, we show that German employees are willing to give up 7.7% of their earnings for WFH, but they value other job attributes more. For...
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Picture this: social distance and the mistreatment of migrant workers
Barsbai, Toman; Bartoš, Vojtěch; Licuanan, Victoria S.; … - 2022
We experimentally study an intervention to reduce mistreatment of Filipino overseas domestic workers (DWs) by their employers. Encouraging DWs to show their employers a family photo while providing a small gift when starting employment reduced DW mistreatment, increased their job satisfaction,...
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High-pressure, high-paying jobs?
Nagler, Markus; Rincke, Johannes; Winkler, Erwin - 2022
Work-related stress has reportedly increased over time. Using worker-level survey data, we build a measure of work pressure strongly associated with adverse health outcomes. In line with theories of compensating differentials, work pressure comes with a sizable earnings premium, even within...
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Subsidizing extra jobs : promoting employment by taming the unions
Knabe, Andreas (contributor); Schöb, Ronnie (contributor) - 2007
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Labor reallocation in response to trade reform
Menezes-Filho, Naercio Aquino (contributor);  … - 2007
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The "Taxing Wages" approach to measuring the tax burden on labour
Heady, Christopher - 2003
measures of the effective tax rate on labour and uses recent results to illustrate its use. It argues that the strength of this …
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That elusive elasticity : a long-panel approach to estimating the capital-labor substitution elasticity : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, May 2004
Chirinko, Robert S.; Fazzari, Steven M.; Meyer, Andrew P. - 2004
The elasticity of substitution between capital and labor features prominently in several areas of economic research. However, a consensus estimate remains elusive. We develop an estimation strategy that filters panel data in an original way and avoids several pitfalls - difficult-to-specify...
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Will markets provide humane jobs? : a hypothesis
Nekoei, Arash - 2022
Most of the key amenities of our today jobs did not emerge in private contracts; instead, they appeared in collective agreements and regulations. I argue that understanding this observation can guide the provision of future amenities. I show that markets underprovide an amenity if workers who...
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