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Garcia-Louzao, Jose; Ruggieri, Alessandro - 2023

Does competition in the labor market affect wage inequality? Standard textbook monopsony models predict that lower employer labor market power reduces wage dispersion. We test this hypothesis using Social Security data from Lithuania. We first fit a two-way fixed effects model to quantify the...

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Will increased wages reduce shortage of nurses? : a panel data analysis of nurses' labour supply

Askildsen, Jan Erik; Baltagi, Badi H.; Holmås, Tor Helge - 2002

,638 individuals over 6 years totalling 69,122 observations. The estimated wage elasticity after controlling for individual …

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Explaining the declining labor supply responsiveness of married women

Jia, Zhiyang; Thoresen, Thor Olav; Vattø, Trine Engh - 2024

using repeated cross-sectional data confirms this trend for Norway – the gross wage elasticity for married women decreased …

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Hours inequality

Checchi, Daniele; García-Peñalosa, Cecilia; Vivian, Lara - 2022

, hours inequality is an important force, and that it has increased over the period under analysis. The elasticity of hours … with respect to wages has also played a key role, notably in the two continental economies. This elasticity used to be … potential factors behind the change in the elasticity, notably the role of trade and labour market institutions. …

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Alternatives to paying child benefit to the rich : means testing or higher tax?

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray; Thoresen, Thor Olav; Vattø, … - 2020

Transferring public benefits to people in no need of them appears to be a waste of public money. Thus, there seems to be support for a move away from universal child benefits and towards means testing. This study presents a critique of this overly-simplistic view and proposes a very simple...

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Input demand and the short- and long-run employment thresholds : an empirical analysis for the German manufacturing sector

Flaig, Gebhard; Rottmann, Horst - 2000

continuous rise in labour productivity. It is related to the Okun coefficient which describes the relationship between the …

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Estimating labour supply elasticities based on cross-country micro data : a bridge between micro and macro estimates?

Jäntti, Markus; Pirttilä, Jukka; Selin, Håkan - 2014

We utilise repeated cross sections of micro data from several countries, available from the Luxembourg Income Study, LIS, to estimate labour supply elasticities, both at the intensive and extensive margin. The benefit of the data is that it spans over four decades and includes a large number of...

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Income inequality, mobility and the accumulation of capital

García-Peñalosa, Cecilia; Turnovsky, Stephen J. - 2013

We examine the determinants of income mobility and inequality in a Ramsey model with elastic labor supply and heterogeneous wealth and ability (labor endowment). Both agents with lower wealth and with greater ability tend to supply more labor, implying that labor supply decisions may have an...

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To redistribute or to predistribute? : the minimum wage versus income taxation when workers differ in both wages and working hours

Gerritsen, Aart - 2023

social preferences for the lowest-wage workers are relatively strong and the wage elasticity of labor demand relatively small. …

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State taxation of nonresident income and the location of work

Agrawal, David R.; Tester, Kenneth - 2023

shift employment to low-tax states without a residence change. The elasticity of working in a state is 0.34, and consistent …

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