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Wage determination in the US airline industry : union power under product market constraints
Hirsch, Barry T. (contributor) - 2006
The paper analyzes wages in the U.S. airline industry, focusing on the role of collective bargaining in a changing … product market environment. Airline unions have considerable strike threat power, but are constrained by the financial health … of carriers. Since airline deregulation, compensation has waxed and waned in response to the industry's economic …
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How do airlines cut fuel usage, reducing their carbon emissions?
Brueckner, Jan K.; Kahn, Matthew E.; Nickelsburg, Jerry - 2023
Airline fuel consumption is costly for the firms and for society as well due to a climate-change externality. We study … externality. The airline industry's capital stock can be easily inventoried as a set of long-lived, durable aircraft. This …. Changes in airline operations directed toward conserving fuel can be an important path toward lower emissions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014286491
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A first step up the energy ladder? : low cost solar kits and household's welfare in rural Rwanda
Grimm, Michael; Munyehirwe, Anicet; Peters, Jörg; … - 2014
More than 1.3 billion people lack access to electricity. The UN have proclaimed the goal of providing electricity to all by 2030. In recent years, Pico-Photovoltaic kits have become a lower cost alternative to investment intensive grid electrification. Using a randomized controlled trial we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010423764
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Migration and post-conflict reconstruction : the effect of returning refugees on export performance in the former Yugoslavia
Bahar, Dany; Özgüzel, Cem; Hauptmann, Andreas; … - 2019
During the early 1990s Germany offered temporary protection to over 600,000 Yugoslavian refugees fleeing war. By 2000, many had been repatriated. We exploit this natural experiment to investigate the role of migrants in post-conflict reconstruction in the former Yugoslavia, using exports as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022752
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Car ownership and the labor market of ethnic minorities
Gautier, Pieter (contributor); Zenou, Yves (contributor) - 2008
We show how small initial wealth differences between low skilled black and white workers can generate large differences in their labor-market outcomes. This even occurs in the absence of a taste for discrimination against blacks or exogenous differences in the distance to jobs. Because of the...
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Surprising selection effects in the UK car insurance market
Cannon, Edmund S.; Cipriani, Giam Pietro; Bazar-Rosen, Katia - 2014
We document a large and persistent anomaly in the UK car insurance market over the period 2012-13: insurance companies charged a higher premium for third-party (liability) insurance than comprehensive insurance (which includes third-party). Furthermore, some companies charged higher prices for...
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How do workers perceive the risks from automation and the opportunities to retrain? : evidence from a survey of truck drivers
Shoag, Daniel W.; Strain, Michael R.; Veuger, Stan - 2021
How do truck drivers perceive the risk they face from automation and their opportunities to retrain for employment in a different occupation? Autonomous vehicle (AV) technology has made rapid progress in recent years, so these questions are likely salient to truckers. Based on surveys of the new...
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The impact of car pollution on infant and child health : evidence from emissions cheating
Alexander, Diane; Schwandt, Hannes - 2019
Car exhaust is a major source of air pollution, but little is known about its impacts on population health. We exploit the dispersion of emissions-cheating diesel cars - which secretly polluted up to 150 times as much as gasoline cars - across the United States from 2008-2015 as a natural...
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When the market drives you crazy : stock market returns and fatal car accidents
Guilietti, Corrado; Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2018
The stock market influences some of the most fundamental economic decisions of investors, such as consumption, saving, and labor supply, through the financial wealth channel. This paper provides evidence that daily fluctuations in the stock market have important - and hitherto neglected -...
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On the effects of COVID-19 safer-at-home policies on social distancing, car crashes and pollution
Brodeur, Abel; Cook, Nikolai; Wright, Taylor - 2020
In response to COVID-19, dramatic safer-at-home policies were implemented. The understanding of their impacts on social distancing, travel and pollution is in its infancy. We pair a differences-in-differences framework and synthetic control methods with rich cellular tracking and high frequency...
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