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A Pigouvian approach to congestion in matching markets

He, Yinghua; Magnac, Thierry - 2018

Recruiting agents, or "programs" costly screen “applicants” in matching processes, and congestion in a market increases with the number of applicants to be screened. To combat this externality that applicants impose on programs, application costs can be used as a Pigouvian tax. Higher costs...

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Labour supply and commuting

Gutiérrez-i-Puigarnau, Eva; Ommeren, Jos van - 2010

A new paradigm for transport economists has been established: revenues of a welfare-maximising road tax should be employed to reduce the level of a distortionary income tax. An essential modelling assumption to reach this conclusion is that the number of workdays is optimally chosen, whereas...

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Some evidence on the nature of urbanization economies

Krupka, Douglas J. - 2009

Urbanization economies - the effects on productivity and utility created endogenously by larger cities - are a fundamental component of both the economic geography of modern societies and the perpetuation of innovation and economic growth at a national level. Cities account for vast majorities...

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On amenities, natural advantage and agglomeration

Krupka, Douglas J. (contributor) - 2008

A prominent feature of economic geography in America is the positive correlation amongst local incomes, housing costs and city population. This paper embeds a "black box" agglomeration economy within a more neoclassical general equilibrium model of local wages, rents and population to assess the...

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Low, high and super congestion of an open-access natural resource: the autarky case

Schiff, Maurice W. - 2020

Production of commodities based on open-access renewable natural resources (NR) has usually been examined under "low" congestion (LC) - where MC AC and both increase with output. I identify two additional congestion categories, "high" (HC) and "super" (SC) congestion - where AC is...

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Low, high and super congestion of a renewable natural resource under autarky and trade

Schiff, Maurice W. - 2021

Numerous developing economies depend vitally on renewable natural-resource (NR)-based commodities. This study develops a general equilibrium model to examine the steady-state impact of changes in a small economy's NR congestion under open access and optimal regulation. This issue has often been...

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Where are the real bottlenecks? : Evidence from 20,000 firms in 60 countries about the shadow costs of constraints to firm performance

Carlin, Wendy (contributor); Schaffer, Mark E. (contributor) - 2007

We use data from over 20,000 firms in 60 countries to identify constraints on the growth of firms. We interpret managers' answers to survey questions on the extent to which various aspects of their external environment inhibit the performance of their firm as measuring the shadow cost of...

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Urban density and COVID-19

Carozzi, Felipe; Provenzano, Sandro; Roth, Sefi - 2020

This paper estimates the link between population density and COVID-19 spread and severity in the contiguous United States. To overcome confounding factors, we use two Instrumental Variable (IV) strategies that exploit geological features and historical populations to induce exogenous variation...

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Flexible work organization and employer provided training : evidence from German linked employer-employee data

Campaner, Annika; Heywood, John S.; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2018

variety, two essential elements of flexibility. Critically, the training associated with workplace flexibility does not simply … workplace flexibility is disproportionately oriented toward employees with a greater formal education. Our results also provide … modest evidence of an age bias of workplace flexibility. However, the link between workplace flexibility and training does …

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And i will try to fix you : a study of heterogeneity in job satisfaction with implications for flexible employment contracts

Chongvilaivan, Aekapol; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2011

This paper is an empirical study of slope heterogeneity in job satisfaction. It provides evidence from the generalized ordered probit models that different job characteristics tend to have different distributional impacts on the overall job satisfaction. For instance, standard models tend to...

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