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A life-cycle theory analysis of French household electricity demand
Belaïd, Fateh; Rault, Christophe; Massié, Camille - 2021
This paper develops a pseudo-panel approach to examine household electricity demand behavior through the household life … evidence that the income elasticity of French residential electricity demand is 0.22, averaged over our four cohorts of … electricity consumption follows an inverted U-shaped distribution as a function of the age of the household's head. Most notably …
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The effect of franchise no-poaching restrictions on worker earnings
Callaci, Brian; Gibson, Matthew; Pinto, Sérgio; … - 2023
We evaluate the impact of the Washington State Attorney General's enforcement campaign against employee no-poaching clauses in franchising contracts, which unfolded from 2018 through early 2020. Implementing a staggered difference-in-differences research design using Burning Glass Technologies...
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Product market reforms and unemployment in Europe
Gersbach, Hans; Schniewind, Achim - 2001
In this paper we study how promoting product market competition by reducing mark-ups or by increasing productivity are able to complement labor market reforms. We use a simple general equilibrium model with different types of labor. The bottom-line of the paper is that product market reforms...
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Playing "hard to get" : an economic rationale for crowding out of intrinsically motivated behavior
Schnedler, Wendelin; Vanberg, Christoph - 2014
Anecdotal, empirical, and experimental evidence suggests that offering extrinsic rewards for certain activities can reduce people's willingness to engage in those activities voluntarily. We propose a simple rationale for this "crowding out" phenomenon, using standard economic arguments. The...
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Rising concentration and wage inequality
Cortes, Guido Matias; Tschopp, Jeanne - 2020
Wage inequality has risen in many countries over recent decades. At the same time, production has become increasingly concentrated in a small number of firms. In this paper, we show that these two phenomena are linked. Theoretically, we show that shocks that increase concentration will also lead...
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Multiple applications, competing mechanisms, and market power
Albrecht, James W.; Cai, Xiaoming; Gautier, Pieter; … - 2019
We consider a labor market with search frictions in which workers make multiple applications and firms can post and commit to general mechanisms that may be conditioned both on the number of applications received and on the number of offers received by its candidate. When the contract space...
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Inequality and market concentration, when shareholding is more skewed than consumption
Gans, Joshua; Leigh, Andrew; Schmalz, Martin C.; … - 2018
Economic theory suggests that monopoly prices hurt consumers but benefit shareholders. But in a world where individuals or households can be both consumers and shareholders, the impact of market power on inequality depends in part on the relative distribution of consumption and corporate equity...
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Inequality and market concentration : new evidence from Australia
Hotchin, Lachlan; Leigh, Andrew - 2024
Are excessively concentrated markets inequitable as well as inefficient? We explore this issue by analyzing the degree of market concentration in the industries where Australia's wealthiest made their fortunes. Compared with the economy at large, we find that top wealth holders have tended to...
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How do firms respond to unions?
Dodini, Samuel; Stansbury, Anna; Willén, Alexander - 2023
This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the margins along which firms in Norway respond to increased union density, using legislative changes in the tax deductibility of union dues as a quasi-exogenous shock to firm-level unionization rates. Despite higher personnel costs driven by a...
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Political connections, business groups and innovation
Commander, Simon; Estrin, Saul; Silva, Thamashi de - 2023
It has been argued that Asia's remarkable economic achievements of the past 50 years build on institutional arrangements very different from the West, notably the central role of business groups (BGs). As Asian economies move from extensive to intensive growth, we enquire whether the business...
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