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Restaurant prices and the minimum wage
Fougère, Denis; Gautier, Erwan; Le Bihan, Hervé - 2009
the minimum wage and to the micro patterns of price stickiness. For that purpose, we use a unique dataset of individual … price quotes collected to calculate the Consumer Price Index in France and we estimate a price rigidity model based on a … through to retail prices. -- Price stickiness ; minimum wage ; inflation ; restaurant prices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003825142
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The productivity puzzle in business services
Kritikos, Alexander; Schiersch, Alexander; Stiel, Caroline - 2021
In Germany, the productivity of professional services, a sector dominated by micro and small firms, declined by 40 percent between 1995 and 2014. This productivity decline also holds true for professional services in other European countries. Using a German firm-level dataset of 700,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012600941
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Common ownership of competing firms: evidence from Australia
Leigh, Andrew; Triggs, Adam - 2021
We provide the first estimates of the extent of common ownership of competing firms in Australia. Combining data on market shares and substantial shareholdings, we calculate the impact of common ownership on effective market concentration. Among firms where we can identify at least one owner, 31...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012513226
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Price and saliency in health care: when can targeted nudges change behaviors?
Walker, Brigham - 2020
This paper takes advantage of a natural experiment to examine the relationship between the price and saliency of health …
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Product market integration and labour markets : aggregate gains at the cost of more inequality?
Andersen, Torben M. (contributor);  … - 2007
"Important labour market consequences of globalization may arise via product market integration which affects the room for wage negotiations and generates job creation and destruction through structural changes. We find in a Ricardian trade model that aggregate increases in wages and employment...
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International specialization and the return to capital
Batista, Catia; Potin, Jacques - 2010
price equalization and countries specialize in different subsets of goods. Innovatively, we obtain the returns to capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003933636
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Modeling international trade flows between Eastern European countries and OECD countries
Rault, Christophe (contributor); Sova, Robert (contributor);  … - 2007
Our paper deals with econometric developments for the estimation of the gravity model which lead to convergent parameter estimates even when a correlation exists between the explanatory variables and the specific unobservable characteristics of each unit. We implement panel data econometric...
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Specialization, outsourcing and wages
Munch, Jakob Roland (contributor);  … - 2005
This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages. In contrast to the standard approach in the literature, we focus on domestic outsourcing as well as foreign outsourcing. By using a simple theoretical model, we argue that, if outsourcing is associated with specialization gains...
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Trade and migration with renewable natural resources : out-of-steady-state dynamics
López, Ramón; Schiff, Maurice W. - 2010
Commodity price increases associated with the entry of China, India and other countries into the world economy has led …'s likelihood rises with the relative commodity price and labor inflow; iii) a labor inflow under internal equilibrium results in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003961657
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Efficiency properties of labor taxation in a spatial model of restricted labor mobility
Guggenberger, Patrik; Kaul, Ashok; Kolmar, Martin - 2001
We examine the efficiency properties of labor taxation. A spatial model of an economy is introduced whose key feature is a new approach to restricted labor mobility. We characterize the efficient allocation of labor and properties of a decentralized equilibrium. An efficient allocation of labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401180