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Labor demand responses to changing gas prices
Bossler, Mario; Moog, Alexander; Schank, Thorsten - 2023
-2020, we find for manufacturing establishments a gas price elasticity of labor demand of -0.02, likely reflecting a scale … effect. We also show that a rise in the gas price leads to an increase in establishment closure. A negative impact of the gas … price on wages of 2 percent is consistent with rent-sharing. …
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Reversals in the patterns of women's labor supply in the U.S., 1976 - 2009
Macunovich, Diane J. - 2009
Despite strong increases in women's labor force participation - especially among married women with children - in the 1980s, and somewhat less strong increases in the 1990s, the first decade of the twenty-first century has seen declines across the board. These have been especially marked among...
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Wage flexibility and employment fluctuations : evidence from the housing sector
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2016
Many economists suspect that downward nominal wage rigidities in ongoing labor contracts are an important source of employment fluctuations over the business cycle but there is little direct empirical evidence on this conjecture. This paper compares three occupations in the housing sector with...
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The elasticity of labor demand and the minimum wage
Danziger, Leif (contributor) - 2007
We show that, contrary to widespread belief, low-pay workers do not generally prefer that the minimum wage rate be increased until the labor demand is unitary elastic. Rather, there exists a critical value of elasticity of labor demand so that increases in the minimum wage rate make low-pay...
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The own-wage elasticity of labor demand : a meta-regression analysis
Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2014
Firms' labor demand responses to wage changes are of key interest in empirical research and policy analysis. However, despite extensive research, estimates of labor demand elasticities remain subject to considerable heterogeneity. In this paper, we conduct a comprehensive meta-regression...
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Estimating labor-supply elasticities with joint borrowing constraints of couples
Bredemeier, Christian; Gravert, Jan; Jüßen, Falko - 2016
Estimates of Frisch labor-supply elasticities are biased in the presence of borrowing constraints. We show that this estimation bias is less pronounced for secondary than for primary earners. The reason is that, in households with two earners and joint borrowing constraints, wage-rate...
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The elasticity of labor demand and the optimal minimum wage
Danziger, Leif (contributor) - 2006
"Contrary to widespread belief, we show that low-pay workers might not generally prefer that the minimum wage rate be increased to a level where the labor demand is unitary elastic. Rather, there exists a critical value of elasticity of labor demand such that increases in the minimum wage rate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003399172
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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 …
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The "soda tax" is unlikely to make Mexicans lighter : new evidence on biases in elasticities of demand for soda
Andalón, Mabel; Gibson, John K. - 2017
own-price elasticity of quantity demand for soda of between -1.0 and -1.3. These estimates ignore consumer responses on … prices to estimate unrestricted demand models that correct for both errors. The corrected own-price elasticity of quantity … demand is just -0.2 to -0.3, so tax-induced soda price increases might cut average weights by less than one pound, which is …
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The effects of enforcement on illegal markets : evidence from migrant smuggling along the Southwestern border
Gathmann, Christina (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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