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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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How Do Airlines Cut Fuel Usage, Reducing Their Carbon Emissions?
Brueckner, Jan K.; Kahn, Matthew E.; Nickelsburg, Jerry - 2023
Airline fuel consumption is costly for the firms and for society as well due to a climate-change externality. We study … externality. The airline industry's capital stock can be easily inventoried as a set of long-lived, durable aircraft. This …. Changes in airline operations directed toward conserving fuel can be an important path toward lower emissions …
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EU Jobs at Highest Risk of Covid-19 Social Distancing : Will the Pandemic Exacerbate Labour Market Divide?
Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2020
This paper employs a skills-based approach to identify individual and job factors most likely to be impacted by social distancing measures and practices due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Using data from the Cedefop European skills and jobs survey, a Covid-19 social distancing risk index (COV19R) is...
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Covid-19 Lockdowns and Decline in Traffic Related Deaths and Injuries
Oguzoglu, Umut - 2020
This paper investigates the decline in traffic accidents, fatalities and injuries during the months that COVID-19 stay-at-home orders implemented in Turkey. Taking into account the decline in accidents in March and April together, these rates roughly translate to 200 traffic related deaths and...
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An Economic Model of the Covid-19 Epidemic : The Importance of Testing and Age-Specific Policies
Brotherhood, Luiz - 2020
This paper investigates the role of testing and age-composition in the Covid-19 epidemic. We augment a standard SIR …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833250
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Firm-Level Expectations and Behavior in Response to the Covid-19 Crisis
Buchheim, Lukas - 2020
This paper studies the determinants of firms' business outlook and managerial mitigation strategies in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis using a representative panel of German firms. We first demonstrate that the crisis amplifies pre-crisis weaknesses: Firms that appear relatively weak before the...
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Social Stability Challenged : Pandemics, Inequality and Policy Responses
Perugini, Cristiano - 2020
The public health measures implemented by governments to limit the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic will produce significant economic consequences that are likely to exacerbate social and economic inequalities. In this paper we provide a framework to analyse how income inequality, besides other...
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Job Search During the COVID-19 Crisis
Hensvik, Lena - 2020
This paper measures the job-search responses to the COVID-19 pandemic using realtime data on vacancy postings and ad views on Sweden's largest online job board. First, the labour demand shock in Sweden is as large as in the US, and affects industries and occupations heterogeneously. Second, the...
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Six-Country Survey on Covid-19
Belot, Michele - 2020
This paper presents a new data set collected on representative samples across 6 countries: China, South Korea, Japan, Italy, the UK and the four largest states in the US. The information collected relates to work and living situations, income, behavior (such as social-distancing, hand-washing...
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Covid-19, Lockdowns and Well-Being : Evidence from Google Trends
Brodeur, Abel - 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has led many governments to implement lockdowns. While lockdowns may help to contain the spread of the virus, they may result in substantial damage to population well-being. We use Google Trends data to test whether the lockdowns implemented in Europe and America led to...
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