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Price and saliency in health care: when can targeted nudges change behaviors?
Walker, Brigham - 2020
This paper takes advantage of a natural experiment to examine the relationship between the price and saliency of health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314696
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Consumers and the brain drain : product design and the gains from emigration
Kuhn, Peter Joseph (contributor);  … - 2008
We consider the welfare effects of skilled worker emigration in a context where skilled labor plays a role in product design. We show such emigration can benefit the residents left behind, even when consumers' tastes exhibit a form of home bias. This is because emigration improves the design of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003737645
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Can selective immigration policies reduce migrants' quality?
Bertoli, Simone; Dequiedt, Vianney; Zenou, Yves - 2015 - Forthcoming in: Journal of Development Economics, 2015
Destination countries can adopt selective immigration policies to improve migrants' quality. Screening potential migrants on the basis of observable characteristics also influences their self-selection on unobservables. We propose a model that analyzes the effects of selective immigration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396748
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Incidence of strict quality standards : protection of consumers or windfall for professionals?
Kawaguchi, Daiji; Murao, Tetsushi; Kanbayashi, Ryō - 2013
. Evidence suggests that the stricter quality standards increased the transaction price of used condominiums by 15% in the Tokyo …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009755328
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Management incentives, signaling effects and the costs of vertical integration
Sliwka, Dirk (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001784303
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Product demand shifts and wage inequality
Leonardi, Marco (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001808397
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Strikes, scabs and tread separations : labor strife and the production of defective Bridgestone/Firestone tires
Krueger, Alan B. (contributor); Mas, Alexandre (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001792870
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Bounding the price equivalent of migration barriers
Clemens, Michael A.; Montenegro, Claudio; Pritchett, Lant - 2016
Large international differences in the price of labor can be sustained by differences between workers, or by natural … and policy barriers to worker mobility. We use migrant selection theory and evidence to place lower bounds on the ad ….S. immigrant workers and workers in their 42 home countries. The average price equivalent of migration barriers in this setting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454010
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Employment effects of welfare reforms : evidence from a dynamic structural life-cycle model
Haan, Peter (contributor); Prowse, Victoria (contributor);  … - 2008
In this paper we develop a dynamic structural life-cycle model of labor supply behavior which fully accounts for the effect of income tax and transfers on labor supply incentives. Additionally, the model recognizes the demand side driven rationing risk that might prevent individuals from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716521
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Social change
Greenwood, Jeremy (contributor); Guner, Nezih (contributor) - 2008
A society is characterized by the common attitudes and behavior of its members. Such behavior reflects purposive decision making by individuals, given the environment they live in. Thus, as technology changes, so might social norms. There were big changes in social norms during the 20th century,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716525