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Incidence of strict quality standards : protection of consumers or windfall for professionals?
Kawaguchi, Daiji; Murao, Tetsushi; Kanbayashi, Ryō - 2013
This paper examines the effects of upgrading product quality standards on product and professional labor-market equilibriums when both markets are regulated. The Japanese government revised the Building Standards Act in June 2007, requiring a stricter review process for admitting the plans of...
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The effect of occupational licensing on consumer welfare : early midwifery laws and maternal mortality
Anderson, D. Mark; Brown, Ryan; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; … - 2016
Occupational licensing is intended to protect consumers. Whether it does so is an important, but unanswered, question. Exploiting variation across states and municipalities in the timing and details of midwifery laws introduced during the period 1900-1940, and using a rich data set that we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517692
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Add-on pricing, naive consumers, and the hidden welfare costs of education
Kosfeld, Michael; Schüwer, Ulrich - 2011
Previous research shows that firms shroud high add-on prices in competitive markets with naive consumers leading to inefficiency. We analyze the effects of regulatory intervention via educating naive consumers on equilibrium prices and welfare. Our model allows firms to shroud, unshroud, or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009516903
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The effects of utility shutoff and eviction moratoria during the COVID-19 pandemic on the use of alternative financial services loans
Andre, Jennifer; Braga, Breno; Martinchek, Kassandra; … - 2024
To protect financially distressed families during the COVID-19 pandemic, states implemented emergency measures such as moratoria on evictions and utility shutoffs. These policies prevented utility companies from disconnecting families' energy and water and landlords from obtaining court-ordered...
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Do migrants get good jobs in Australia? : the role of ethnic networks in job search
Mahuteau, Stéphane (contributor);  … - 2008
We study the role of ethnic networks in migrants' job search and the quality of jobs they find in the first years of settlement. We find that there are initial downward movements along the occupational ladder, followed by improvements. As a result of restrictions in welfare eligibility since...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716528
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The effects of health and health shocks on hours worked
Cai, Lixin (contributor); Mavromaras, Kostas G. (contributor) - 2008
We investigate the impact of health on working hours in recognition of the fact that leaving the labour market due to persistently low levels of health stock or due to new health shocks, is only one of the possibilities open to employees. We use the first six waves of the HILDA survey to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716534
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Occupational segregation and the gender wage gap in private- and public-sector employment : a distributional analysis
Barón, Juan D. (contributor);  … - 2008
distributions in Australia. We are particularly interested in the role of gender segregation within sector-specific occupations in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726799
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The "negative" assimilation of immigrants : a special case
Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor);  … - 2008
countries (i.e., the UK, Ireland, Canada and Australia/New Zealand) to the United States. Comparisons with the native born are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726800
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Selection criteria and the skill composition of immigrants : a comparative analysis of Australian and US employment immigration
Jasso, Guillermina (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper uses survey data on employment immigrants in Australia and the United States to identify the main …. (4) Within a sending country, Australia attracts less total but higher-skill migrants than does the United States. This … can be attributed, however, to the fact that the skill price in Australia is lower than the U.S. skill price, so that …
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The economics of language : an introduction and overview
Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor) - 2008
and native-born bilinguals. The empirical testing for the US, Canada, Australia, Israel and Bolivia is supportive of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003729415