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Outsourcing and the skilled–unskilled wage gap

Anwar, Sajid - In: Economics Letters 118 (2013) 2, pp. 347-350

Within the context of a product variety model, this paper examines the impact of outsourcing of skill-intensive tasks … on the skilled–unskilled wage gap. Outsourcing affects the wage gap through direct as well as indirect channels. While … outsourcing decreases the effective wage of skilled workers in the services sector, owing to inter-sectoral labour mobility, its …

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Time zone differences as trade barriers

Egger, Peter H.; Larch, Mario - In: Economics Letters 119 (2013) 2, pp. 172-175

This paper estimates the impact of time zone differences between trading locations on trade costs and trade in general equilibrium. Using homogeneous bilateral trade data between US states and Canadian provinces, time zone differences are found to reduce bilateral trade by 11% on average, which...

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Compensation and performance: An experimental study

Dodonova, Anna; Khoroshilov, Yuri - In: Economics Letters 124 (2014) 2, pp. 304-307

This paper investigates how compensation structure affects performance in a simple but effort-consuming task. In this experimental study, the subjects were asked to multiply two-digit numbers for 40 min and were paid using either a linear (with different pay for performance sensitivities) or a...

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The minimum wage from a two-sided perspective

Brown, Alessio J.G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - In: Economics Letters 124 (2014) 3, pp. 389-391

This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms’ job offer and workers’ job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show...

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The disappearing gay income penalty

Clarke, Geoffrey; Sevak, Purvi - In: Economics Letters 121 (2013) 3, pp. 542-545

Since 1995, labor economists have reported on the income disparities between individuals who engage in same-sex behavior and those that do not. Many of these papers report a significant wage penalty, while others find no effect, but few look at the trend over time. We find, using National Health...

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Within-series momentum in hockey: No returns for running up the score

Kniffin, Kevin M.; Mihalek, Vince - In: Economics Letters 122 (2014) 3, pp. 400-402

Drawing on data from 916 Division 1 men’s college hockey games played during a recent six-year period in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA), we find evidence that positive momentum within 458 two-game series does not exist when controlling for team quality. We find that neither...

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Permanent and transitory inequality and intragenerational mobility

Chen, Tao; Couch, Kenneth A. - In: Economics Letters 120 (2013) 2, pp. 200-202

This paper contains a proof that under one testable condition a measure of economic mobility formed by the ratio of permanent to total variance employing the methods of Gottschalk and Moffitt (1994) is equivalent to the Shorrocks R constructed with a Theil General Entropy Index.

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Market access and wages: A spatially heterogeneous approach

Paredes, Dusan; Iturra, Victor - In: Economics Letters 116 (2012) 3, pp. 349-353

We empirically test the positive relationship between market access and wages stated by New Economic Geography. Contrary to most estimations in other countries, we find evidence of significant spatial heterogeneity of this elasticity across Chilean communities.

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Reservation wages, expected wages and unemployment

Brown, Sarah; Taylor, Karl - In: Economics Letters 119 (2013) 3, pp. 276-279

We model unemployment duration, reservation and expected wages simultaneously for individuals not in work, where wage expectations are identified via an exogenous policy shock. The policy shock increased expected wages, which were found to be positively associated with reservation wages.

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The union wage effect and ability bias: Evidence from Ireland

Walsh, Frank - In: Economics Letters 119 (2013) 3, pp. 296-298

We use longitudinal data from an Irish household survey to measure the union wage premium. A subsample in which the worker’s payslip was seen by the interviewer is unlikely to have measurement error for the union variable. The results support the finding that measurement error leads to a large...

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