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Spillover effects of energy transition metals in Chile
Agnese, Pablo; Rios, Francisco - 2023
increasing demand for metals like copper and lithium due to the growth in renewable energies and electromobility, metal abundant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014230169
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Immigrant labor, child care services, and the work fertility trade-off in the United States
Furtado, Delia (contributor); Hock, Heinrich (contributor) - 2008
The negative correlation between female employment and fertility in industrialized nations has weakened since the 1960s, particularly in the United States. We suggest that the continuing influx of low-skilled immigrants has led to a substantial reduction in the trade-off between work and...
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Monetary persistence and the labor market : a new perspective
Lechthaler, Wolfgang (contributor);  … - 2008
It is common knowledge that the standard New Keynesian model is not able to generate a persistent response in output to temporary monetary shocks. We show that this shortcoming can be remedied in a simple and intuitively appealing way through the introduction of labor turnover costs (such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003719627
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Wages, rents and heterogeneous moving costs
Krupka, Douglas J. (contributor);  … - 2007
The model of compensating differentials in regional labor markets was developed by Roback (1982). The model interprets regional differences in constant quality wages and rents as compensating firms and residents for inter-regional differences in amenities. The model assumes that the costs of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003646704
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The stairways to heaven : a model of career choice in sports and games, with an application to chess
Ariga, Ken; Brunello, Giorgio; Iwahashi, Roki; Rocco, … - 2008
We model individual careers in sports and games from initial entry to eventual exit or success as a discrete-choice, finite-horizon optimization problem. We apply this model to the international game of chess and study cross-country differences in the relative success of players. While we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003646733
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Labor turnover costs, workers' heterogeneity, and optimal monetary policy
Faia, Ester; Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Merkl, Christian - 2009
We study the design of optimal monetary policy in a New Keynesian model with labor turnover costs in which wages are set according to a right to manage bargaining where the firms' counterpart is given by currently employed workers. Our model captures well the salient features of European labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879356
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Integrating severely disabled individuals into the labour market : the Austrian case
Humer, Brigitte (contributor);  … - 2007
"We study the impact of the Austrian Employment Act for the Disabled which grants extended employment protection, requires a hiring quota for firms, and subsidizes the employment of severely disabled (SD) workers. Using a large sample of eligible individuals we compare workers before and after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003476495
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The measurement of child costs : a rothbarth-type method consistent with scale economies
Bargain, Olivier; Donni, Olivier - 2009
We propose a new methodology to estimate the share of household income accruing to children (i.e., the cost of children … application on the French Household Budget Survey. -- Consumer demand ; collective model ; Rothbarth method ; cost of children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003931950
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The measurement of child costs : evidence from Ireland
Bargain, Olivier; Donni, Olivier; Gbakou, Monnet - 2009
.e., the cost of children) in Ireland. The method also allows us to identify the economies of scale in the household and … ; cost of children ; equivalence scales ; indifference scales …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003932408
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The firing cost implications of alternative severance pay designs
Parsons, Donald O. - 2010
Economists have concerns about the firing cost implications of mandated severance plans. Analysis reveals that …) severance insurance plans or (ii) severance savings plans is important; savings plans have no "firing cost" effects on employer … layoff decisions. The firing cost implications of insurance plan are sensitive to the types of job separations that qualify a …
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