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Revealed Informal Activity
Dimova, Ralitza D. - 2011
What does it mean to be in the informal sector? Many characterizations have been used in the literature, for example, firms that are unregistered or employ a small workforce or firms/economic enterprises that do not have access to formal capital markets. But many people participate in both...
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The Dynamics of Power in Labor Markets : Monopolistic Unions Versus Monopsonistic Employers
Dodini, Samuel; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willén, Alexander - 2022
This paper brings together the modern research on employer power and employee power by empirically examining the effects of unionization on worker earnings, employment, and inequality across differently concentrated markets. Exploiting national tax reforms to union membership dues as exogenous...
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Competing with Asking Prices
Lester, Benjamin R. - 2013
In many markets, sellers advertise their good with an asking price. This is a price at which the seller is willing to take his good off the market and trade immediately, though it is understood that a buyer can submit an offer below the asking price and that this offer may be accepted if the...
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The Price of Polarization : Estimating Task Prices Under Routine-Biased Technical Change
Böhm, Michael J. - 2017
The debate about the impact of routine-biased technical change on wages revolves around the question whether occupational or overall wage distributions polarized. This paper instead argues that routine task prices should decline compared to abstract and manual task prices. I propose a new...
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Labor Supply Responses to Learning the Tax and Benefit Schedule
Kostøl, Andreas; Myhre, Andreas - 2021
While optimization frictions have been shown to attenuate earnings responses to financial incentives, less is understood about the individual factors shaping the response. The main contribution of this paper is to separately quantify the role of learning the tax and benefit schedule versus other...
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Competition vs. Monopoly in the Religious Marketplace : Judaism in the United States and Israel
Chiswick, Carmel U. - 2013
ideas. The "Sacred Canopy" paradigm views it necessary for social stability to grant monopoly power to an official state …. Judaism in Israel illustrates the outcome in a monopoly experiencing potential competition, possibly leading to an oligopoly …
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Wages, Hires, and Labor Market Concentration
Marinescu, Ioana Elena - 2020
.9%, as hypothesized by monopsony theory. Based on a simple merger simulation, we find that a merger between the top two …
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Do Dutch Dentists Extract Monopoly Rents?
Ketel, Nadine - 2018
outcomes. The natural explanation is that Dutch dentists extract a monopoly rent, which we attribute to the limited supply of …
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Policies to Promote Growth and Economic Efficiency in Mexico
Arias, Javier - 2010
This paper discusses the problems facing the Mexican economy. It operates under a heavy burden of monopoly and … heavy burden of monopoly and regulation. We find little evidence that the introduction of social protection programs for …
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The Effect of Deceptive Advertising on Consumption of the Advertised Good and its Substitutes : The Case of Over-the-Counter Weight Loss Products
Cawley, John - 2013
This paper is the first to estimate the impact of exposure to deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised … advertising is rampant and products are generally ineffective with potentially serious side effects. We control for the targeting … exposure to deceptive advertising is associated with a lower probability that women, and a higher probability that men, consume …
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