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Spatial Frictions
Behrens, Kristian - 2013
The world is replete with spatial frictions. Shipping goods across cities entails trade frictions. Commuting within cities causes urban frictions. How important are these frictions in shaping the spatial economy? We develop and quantify a novel framework to address this question at three...
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A Wage-Efficiency Spatial Model for US Self-Employed Workers
Giménez, José Ignacio - 2016
In this paper, we study self-employment in a theoretical setting derived from wage-efficiency spatial models, where leisure and effort at work are complementary. We develop a spatial model of self-employment in which effort at work and commuting are negatively related, and thus the probability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001329
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Network Effects on Labor Contracts of Internal Migrants in China : A Spatial Autoregressive Model
Baltagi, Badi H. - 2017
This paper studies the fact that 37 percent of the internal migrants in China do not sign a labor contract with their employers, as revealed in a nationwide survey. These contract-free jobs pay lower hourly wages, require longer weekly work hours, and provide less insurance or on-the-job...
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Spatial Spillovers of Conflict in Somalia
Alfano, Marco; Cornelissen, Thomas - 2022
Due to economic interconnectedness across regions, locally confined violent conflict may have welfare effects far beyond directly affected areas. This paper focuses on Somalia’s al-Shabaab insurgency and investigates whether the food transportation network propagates the effects of violent...
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Spatial Interactions
Kim, Jun; Patacchini, Eleonora; Picard, Pierre M.; … - 2022
This paper studies how the strength of social ties are affected by the geographical location of other individuals and their social capital. We characterize the equilibrium in terms of both social interactions and social capital. We show that lower travel costs increase not only the interaction...
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Chinese Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Market:Effects of Post-Tiananmen Immigration Policy
Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline; Kerr, Emily - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
The Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 and ensuing government crackdown affectedChinese nationals not only at home but around the world. The U.S. government responded tothe events in China by enacting multiple measures to protect Chinese nationals present inthe U.S. It first suspended all forced...
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It’s the Opportunity Cost, Stupid!How Self-Employment Responds to FinancialIncentives of Return, Risk and Skew
Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; Praag, Mirjam van - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
wages given up as an employee.Information on income from self-employment is of inferior quality and this is not just … it is not only the location of an income distribution thatmatters and that dispersion and (a)symmetry should not be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009496228
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The Financial Crisis, Labor Market Transitions andEarnings: A Gendered Panel Data Analysis for Serbia
Blunch, Niels-Hugo; Sulla, Victor - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
While results are starting to emerge, not much is known yet about the dynamics of the labormarkets of the former Eastern economies, especially in the context of the current FinancialCrisis. Arguably, this is mainly due to paucity of (panel) data. By examining labor markettransitions, earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522192
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Labor Earnings Respond Differently toIncome-Tax and to Payroll-Tax Reforms
Lehmann, Etienne; Marical, François; Rioux, Laurence - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
themarginal net-of-income-tax rate is around 0.2, while we find no response to the marginal netof-payroll-tax rate. The elasticity … with respect to the average net-of-tax rates is not significantfor the income-tax schedule, while it is close to -1 for the … payroll-tax schedule. A plausibleexplanation is the existence of significant labor supply responses to the income-tax schedule …
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Optimal Piecewise Linear Income Taxation
Apps, Patricia; Long, Ngo Van; Rees, Ray - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
Given its significance in practice, piecewise linear taxation has received relatively littleattention in the literature. This paper offers a simple and transparent analysis of its maincharacteristics. We fully characterize optimal tax parameters for the cases in which budgetsets are convex and...
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