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Wage Determination in the U.S. Airline Industry : Union Power Under Product Market Constraints

Hirsch, Barry T. - 2021

The paper analyzes wages in the U.S. airline industry, focusing on the role of collective bargaining in a changing … product market environment. Airline unions have considerable strike threat power, but are constrained by the financial health … of carriers. Since airline deregulation, compensation has waxed and waned in response to the industry's economic …

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When the Baby Cries at Night : Inelastic Buyers in Non-Competitive Markets

Calzolari, Giacomo - 2014

We investigate empirically how sellers react to changes in the population of their consumers, identifying the effects of demand composition and demand size with limited information on costs. We show how pharmacists in Italy selectively increase the price of some products when they observe in...

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Add-On Pricing, Naive Consumers, and the Hidden Welfare Costs of Education

Kosfeld, Michael - 2011

Previous research shows that firms shroud high add-on prices in competitive markets with naive consumers leading to inefficiency. We analyze the effects of regulatory intervention via educating naive consumers on equilibrium prices and welfare. Our model allows firms to shroud, unshroud, or...

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Did Cheaper Flights Change the Direction of Science?

Catalini, Christian - 2016

We test how a reduction in travel cost affects the rate and direction of scientific research. Using a fine-grained, scientist-level dataset within chemistry (1991-2012), we find that after Southwest Airlines enters a new route, scientific collaboration increases by 50%, an effect that is...

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Workforce Reorganization and the Worker

Kriechel, Ben; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2021

In this paper we study the joint decision process of changing the structure of jobs and laying off individual workers in a firm that downsizes its workforce. A hierarchical decision model is proposed and estimated using personnel data from a firm in demise comparing the characteristics of the...

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Right to Buy? Time to Move? Investigating the Effect of the Right to Buy on Moving Behaviour in the UK

van Ham, Maarten - 2010

One of the goals of the Right to Buy (RTB) was to stimulate labour migration by removing the debilitating effect of social housing on geographical mobility. This is the first study to examine rigorously whether the Right to Buy legislation did indeed 'free-up' those in social housing who bought...

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More Apples Less Chips? The Effect of School Fruit Schemes on the Consumption of Junk Food

Brunello, Giorgio - 2012

We use scanner data of supermarket sales to investigate the effects of the EU School Fruit campaign, conducted in a sample of primary schools in the city of Rome during 2010 and 2011, on the consumption of unhealthy snacks. We allocate supermarkets to treatment and control groups depending on...

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Riches to Rags Every Month? The Fall in Consumption Expenditures between Paydays

Huffman, David; Barenstein, Matias - 2021

This paper finds declining consumption expenditure between paydays, for a typical household in the working population of the UK. The magnitude is inconsistent with exponential time preference, but compatible with quasi-hyperbolic discounting. However, the hyperbolic model predicts that credit...

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The Effect of Product Demand on Inequality : Evidence from the US and the UK

Leonardi, Marco - 2010

This paper examines the relationship between product demand and the pattern of rising skill premia and rising employment of skilled workers in the US and the UK since the 1980s. If more skilled workers demand more skill-intensive goods, then an increase in relative skill supply will also induce...

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Does Equal Pay Legislation Reduce Labour Market Inequality?

Kaas, Leo - 2006

This paper considers a labour market model of monopsonistic competition with taste-based discrimination against minority workers to study the effect of equal pay legislation on labour market inequality. When the taste for discrimination is small or competition is weak, the policy removes job...

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