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Energy prices, pass-through, and incidence in U.S. manufacturing

Ganapati, Sharat; Shapiro, Joseph S.; Walker, Reed - 2016

This paper studies how increases in energy input costs for production are split between consumers and producers via changes in product prices (i.e., pass-through). We show that in markets characterized by imperfect competition, marginal cost pass-through, a demand elasticity, and a price-cost...

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Did the national minimum wage affect UK prices?

Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2009

One potential channel through which the effects of the minimum wage could be directed is that firms who employ minimum wage workers could pass on any resulting higher labour costs in the form of higher prices. This study looks at the effects of the introduction and subsequent uprating of the...

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Optimal price indices for targeting inflation under incomplete markets

Anand, Rahul; Prasad, Eswar S. - 2010

In models with complete markets, targeting core inflation enables monetary policy to maximize welfare by replicating the flexible price equilibrium. In this paper, we develop a twosector two-good closed economy new Keynesian model to study the optimal choice of price index in markets with...

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The effect of the minimum wage on prices

Lemos, Sara (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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The effects of the minimum wage on wages, employment and prices

Lemos, Sara (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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The effect of the minimum wage on prices in Brazil

Lemos, Sara (contributor) - 2004

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Returns to schooling in Kazakhstan : OLS and instrumental variables approach

Arabsheibani, Gholam Reza (contributor); … - 2006

This paper examines rates of return to schooling in Kazakhstan using OLS and instrumental variable (IV) methodologies … underestimate the true rates of return. The results indicate that the returns to schooling in Kazakhstan have increased with … transition. This may reflect the relative scarcities of highly educated people in Kazakhstan with human capital that employers …

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Returns to education in four transition countries : quantile regression approach

Staneva, Anita; Arabsheibani, Gholam Reza; Murphy, Philip - 2010

from Bulgaria, Russia, Kazakhstan and Serbia in 2003, we show that the return to education is heterogeneous across the …

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Economic and spatial determinants of interregional migration in Kazakhstan

Aldashev, Alisher; Dietz, Barbara - 2012

In this paper we analyze economic and spatial determinants of interregional migration in Kazakhstan using quarterly … should facilitate regional income convergence in Kazakhstan and improve living standards in depressed regions …. -- interregional migration ; Kazakhstan ; gravity model …

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Economic returns to speaking the right language(s)? : evidence from Kazakhstan's shift in state language and language of instruction

Aldashev, Alisher; Danzer, Alexander M. - 2014

This paper investigates the economic returns to language skills and bilingualism. The analysis is staged in Kazakhstan …

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