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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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The effects of enforcement on illegal markets : evidence from migrant smuggling along the Southwestern border
Gathmann, Christina (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001896413
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Precious metal prices : a tale of four U.S. recessions
Agnese, Pablo; Garcia-del-Barrio, Pedro; Gil-Alaña, Luis A. - 2023
This paper empirically examines the degree of persistence in four precious metal prices (i.e., gold, palladium, platinum, and silver) during the last four U.S. recessions. Unit root tests and fractional integration techniques suggest that gold still is the most prominent safe haven asset within...
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Decomposing the sources of earnings inequality : assessing the role of reallocation
Andersson, Fredrik; Davis, Elizabeth E.; Freedman, Matthew - 2011
This paper exploits longitudinal employer-employee matched data from the U.S. Census Bureau to investigate the contribution of worker and firm reallocation to changes in earnings inequality within and across industries between 1992 and 2003. We find that factors that cannot be measured using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523529
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Energy boom and gloom? : local effects of oil and natural gas drilling on subjective well-being
Maguire, Karen; Winters, John V. - 2016
The United States experienced a considerable increase in oil and natural gas extraction in recent years due to technological advancements including horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. Increased energy development likely creates both benefits and costs, but the net effects for local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455295
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Who benefits from local oil and gas employment? : labor market composition in the oil and gas industry in Texas
Cai, Zhengyu; Maguire, Karen; Winters, John V. - 2019
This paper examines local labor market outcomes from an oil and gas boom in Texas. We examine two main outcomes across gender, race, and ethnicity: the probability of employment in the oil and gas industry and the log wages of workers employed outside the oil and gas industry. We find that men...
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The big carrot: high stake incentives revisited
Brañas-Garza, Pablo (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper provides an empirical demonstration of high stakes incentives in relation to religious practice. It shows that, when both positive (carrot) and negative (stick) incentives are available, the former are more effective than the latter. Specifically, it is shown that beliefs in heaven...
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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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Restaurant prices and the minimum wage
Fougère, Denis; Gautier, Erwan; Le Bihan, Hervé - 2009
the minimum wage and to the micro patterns of price stickiness. For that purpose, we use a unique dataset of individual … price quotes collected to calculate the Consumer Price Index in France and we estimate a price rigidity model based on a … through to retail prices. -- Price stickiness ; minimum wage ; inflation ; restaurant prices …
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Lumpy price adjustments : a microeconometric analysis
Dhyne, Emmanuel; Fuss, Catherine; Pesaran, M. Hashem; … - 2007
the degree of price rigidity that is inherent to the price setting mechanism (intrinsic) and that which is due to the … price's driving variables (extrinsic). Using two data sets consisting of a large fraction of the price quotes used to … compute the Belgian and French CPI, we are able to assess the role of intrinsic and extrinsic price stickiness in explaining …
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