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Policies to promote growth and economic efficiency in Mexico
Arias, Javier; Azuara, Oliver; Bernal, Pedro; Heckman, … - 2010
heavy burden of monopoly and regulation. We find little evidence that the introduction of social protection programs for …This paper discusses the problems facing the Mexican economy. It operates under a heavy burden of monopoly and … regulation. We focus on two issues that should receive more attention in discussions of Mexican policy. (1) The family is under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003939090
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Greener fleet, cleaner air : how Low Emission Zones reduce pollution
Aydin, Eren; Gehrsitz, Markus; Traxler, Christian - 2024
Using a stacked differences-in-differences approach, we study the effects of Low Emission Zones (LEZs) in Germany. The implementation of stage 1 and 2 LEZs, which banned the most pollution-intensive vehicles from city centers, significantly reduced PM10 concentrations. The most restrictive third...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014582278
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011958679
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Unemployment dynamics and the cost of business cycles
Hairault, Jean-Olivier (contributor);  … - 2008
In this paper, we investigate whether business cycles can imply sizable effects on average unemployment. First, using a reduced-form model of the labor market, we show that job finding rate fluctuations generate intrinsically a non-linear effect on unemployment: positive shocks reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003778482
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941788
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Rational migration policy should tolerate non-zero illegal migration flows : lessons from modelling the market for illegal migration
Entorf, Horst - 2000
to the problem of illegal migration, grounded on the economic theory of illegal behaviour. The framework considers the …
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One-child policy, marriage distortion, and welfare loss
Huang, Wei; Zhou, Yi - 2015
Using plausibly exogenous variations in the ethnicity-specific assigned birth quotas and different fertility penalties across Chinese provinces over time, we provide new evidence for the transferable utility model by showing how China's One-Child Policy induced a significantly higher unmarried...
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Discrimination as favoritism : the private benefits and social costs of in-group favoritism in an experimental labor market
Dickinson, David L.; Masclet, David; Peterlé, Emmanuel - 2017
In this paper, we examine labor market favoritism in a unique laboratory experiment design that can shed light on both the private benefits and spillover costs of employer favoritism (or discrimination). Group identity is induced on subjects such that each laboratory "society"consists of eight...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011621487
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Distribution and growth in an economy with limited needs
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001
increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a monopoly. Workers can specialize in material goods production … bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than set …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401020
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The cyclical behaviour of employers' monopsony power and workers' wages
Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Schnabel, Claus - 2013
unemployment rate. In line with theory, we find that firms possess more monopsony power during economic downturns, which shows to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010222161