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Wage discrimination based on the country of birth : do tenure and product market competition matter?
Fays, Valentine; Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François; … - 2019
competition as moderator variables. To do so, we specify a wage-setting equation à la Bartolucci (2014) that includes a direct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012126863
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Add-on pricing, naive consumers, and the hidden welfare costs of education
Kosfeld, Michael; Schüwer, Ulrich - 2011
is sufficiently well informed about consumer and firm behavior. -- bounded rationality ; competition ; regulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009516903
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Scale economies can offset the benefits of competition : evidence from a school consolidation reform in a universal voucher system
Haan, Monique de; Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2011
context scale economies dominated the effects of choice and competition. This points to an often ignored trade-off between … scale and competition. -- school choice ; competition ; school consolidation ; achievement ; economies of scale …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009232507
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Competition reform and household welfare: a microsimulation analysis of the telecommunication sector in Ethiopia
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Araar, Abdelkrim; … - 2021
This paper presents a novel method for estimating the likely welfare effects of competition reforms for both current … consumers are more likely to reap the benefits of greater competition. This method represents a powerful tool for supporting the … analysis of competition reforms in developing countries, particularly in sectors known for excluding significant segments of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012418650
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The economics of credence goods : on the role of liability, verifiability, reputation and competition
Dulleck, Uwe; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias - 2009
has little influence, as predicted. Seller competition drives down prices and yields maximal trade, but does not lead to … ; competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003814341
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Productivity, wages and profits : does firms' position in the value chain matter?
Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François; Vermeylen, Guillaume; … - 2019
This paper is the first to estimate the impact of a direct measure of firm-level upstreamness on productivity, wage costs and profits (i.e. productivity-wage gaps). To do so, we merged detailed Belgian linked panel data, covering all years from 2002 to 2010, to a unique data set developed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138890
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Redistributive politics and market efficiency : an experimental study
Großer, Jens; Reuben, Ernesto - 2009
We study the interaction between competitive markets that produce large but unequally distributed welfare gains and elections through which the poor majority can redistribute income away from the rich minority. In our simple laboratory democracy, subjects first earn their income by trading in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003910210
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Minimum wages in concentrated labor markets
Popp, Martin - 2024
Economists increasingly refer to monopsony power to reconcile the absence of negative employment effects of minimum wages with theory. However, systematic evidence for the monopsony argument is scarce. In this paper, I perform a comprehensive test of this argument by using labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015075858
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Nonparametric identification and stimation of nonadditive hedonic Models
Heckman, James J.; Matzkin, Rosa L.; Nesheim, Lars - 2009
This paper studies the identification and estimation of preferences and technologies in equilibrium hedonic models. In it, we identify nonparametric structural relationships with nonadditive heterogeneity. We determine what features of hedonic models can be identified from equilibrium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879363
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Efficient redistribution: comparing basic income with unemployment benefits
FitzRoy, Felix R.; Jin, Jim Y. - 2010
We compare two systems of income redistribution: unemployment benefits (UB) and basic income (BI). First, for a simple utility function, with both intensive and extensive margins, the unemployed are likely better off with pure BI than pure UB, regardless of labour supply elasticity and wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153046