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A Pigouvian Approach to Congestion in Matching Markets

He, Yinghua - 2019

Recruiting agents, or "programs" costly screen "applicants" in matching processes, and congestion in a market increases with the number of applicants to be screened. To combat this externality that applicants impose on programs, application costs can be used as a Pigouvian tax. Higher costs...

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Low, High and Super Congestion of an Open-Access Natural Resource : The Autarky Case

Schiff, Maurice - 2020

Production of commodities based on open-access renewable natural resources (NR) has usually been examined under "low" congestion (LC) – where MC AC and both increase with output. I identify two additional congestion categories, "high" (HC) and "super" (SC) congestion – where AC is...

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Labour Supply and Commuting

Gutierrez-i-Puigarnau, Eva - 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...

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Overtime Work and Overtime Compensation in Germany

Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Bauer, Thomas K. - 2021

Sharing the available stock of work more fairly is a popular concern in the public policy debate. One proposal is to reduce overtime work in order to allow the employment of more people. This paper suggests that such a concept faces major problems. Using Germany as a case study, it is shown that...

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In-Work Benefits and the Nordic Model

Kolm, Ann-Sofie - 2013

Welfare benefits in the Nordic countries are often tied to employment. We argue that this is one of the factors behind the success of the Nordic model, where a comprehensive welfare state is associated with high employment. In a general equilibrium setting, the underlining mechanism works...

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Flexible Work Organization and Employer Provided Training : Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data

Campaner, Annika - 2018

variety, two essential elements of flexibility. Critically, the training associated with workplace flexibility does not simply … workplace flexibility is disproportionately oriented toward employees with a greater formal education. Our results also provide … modest evidence of an age bias of workplace flexibility. However, the link between workplace flexibility and training does …

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Job Changes and Hours Changes:Understanding the Path of Labour Supply Adjustment

Blundell, Richard W.; Brewer, Mike; Francesconi, Marco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper uses British panel data to investigate single women´s labour supply changes inresponse to three tax and benefit policy reforms that occurred in the 1990s. These reformschanged individuals´ work incentives and we use them to identify changes in labour supply.We find evidence of small...

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Wage Structure Effects of International Trade : Evidence from a Small Open Economy

Du Caju, Philip - 2011

In the last decades, international trade has increased between industrialised countries and between high- and low-wage countries. This important change has raised questions on how international trade affects the labour market. In this spirit, this paper aims to investigate the impact of...

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Are Intra-Household Allocations Policy Neutral? Theory and Empirical Evidence

Chiappori, Pierre-Andre - 2011

We develop a collective household model with spousal matching in which there exists marital gains to assortative matching and marriage quality for each couple is revealed ex post. Changes in alimony laws are shown to affect existing couples and couples-to-be differently. For existing couples,...

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Heterogeneous Productivity in Voluntary Public Good Provision : An Experimental Analysis

Fellner-Röhling, Gerlinde - 2011

This article experimentally examines voluntary contributions when group members' marginal returns to the public good vary. The experiment implements two marginal return types, low and high, and uses the information that members have about the heterogeneity to identify the applied contribution...

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