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Green Commuting and Gasoline Taxes in the United States

Giménez, José Ignacio - 2019

This paper analyzes how gasoline tax rates are related to the time workers in the United States spend commuting by …-state differences and time variations in gasoline taxes. Using the American Time Use Surveys for the years 2003 to 2015, we find that … higher gasoline tax rates are related with less time spent in commuting. Furthermore, higher gasoline taxes are related to a …

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Domestic Multinationals, Foreign Affiliates, and Labour Demand Elasticities

Godart, Olivier - 2012

Using information on a panel of multinational firms operating in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2005, we find that labour demand in domestic multinationals is less sensitive to labour cost changes than in foreign multinationals. This difference in the wage elasticity of labour demand persists...

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Strengthening State Capabilities : The Role of Financial Incentives in the Call to Public Service

Dal Bo, Ernesto - 2012

We study a recent recruitment drive for public sector positions in Mexico. Different salaries were announced randomly across recruitment sites, and job offers were subsequently randomized. Screening relied on exams designed to measure applicants' intellectual ability, personality, and...

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Nurses' Labour Supply Elasticities : The Importance of Accounting for Extensive Margins

Broadway, Barbara - 2012

Many countries face a continuing shortage in nurses' labour supply. Previous research suggests that nurses respond only weakly to changes in wages. We estimate a multi-sector model of nursing qualification holders' labour supply in different occupations. A structural approach allows us to model...

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Is There Monopsonistic Discrimination Against Immigrants? First Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Hirsch, Boris - 2012

This paper investigates immigrants' and natives' labour supply to the firm within a semi-structural approach based on a dynamic monopsony framework. Applying duration models to a large administrative employer-employee data set for Germany, we find that once accounting for unobserved worker...

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Matching Bias in Labor Demand Estimation

Aguilar, Giovanna - 2007

Using a matched firm-worker dataset, we show both theoretically and empirically that positive assortative matching between firms and workers leads to an underestimation of the absolute value of wage elasticity of labor demand

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The 'Soda Tax' is Unlikely to Make Mexicans Lighter : New Evidence on Biases in Elasticities of Demand for Soda

Andalon, Mabel - 2017

Mexico's 'soda tax' has been predicted to reduce average weights by two to four pounds, based on extant estimates of an own-price elasticity of quantity demand for soda of between −1.0 and −1.3. These estimates ignore consumer responses on the quality margin and correlated measurement...

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When Banana Import Restrictions Lead to Exports : A Tale of Cyclones and Quarantine Policies

Ko, Chia Chiun - 2014

This paper examines the welfare loss of import restrictions on bananas in Australia and whether the import restrictions have turned into a particular form of export promotion. We set up a model in which there is free domestic entry, with banana producers accepting losses in normal years, off-set...

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The Own-Wage Elasticity of Labor Demand : A Meta-Regression Analysis

Lichter, Andreas - 2014

Firms' labor demand responses to wage changes are of key interest in empirical research and policy analysis. However, despite extensive research, estimates of labor demand elasticities remain subject to considerable heterogeneity. In this paper, we conduct a comprehensive meta-regression...

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Wage Flexibility and Employment Fluctuations : Evidence from the Housing Sector

Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2016

Many economists suspect that downward nominal wage rigidities in ongoing labor contracts are an important source of employment fluctuations over the business cycle but there is little direct empirical evidence on this conjecture. This paper compares three occupations in the housing sector with...

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