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This paper provides field evidence on (a) how price framing affects consumers' decision to switch health insurance plans and (b) how the price elasticity of demand for health insurance can be influenced by policymakers through simple regulatory efforts. In 2009, in order to foster competition...
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We utilize the analytical construct of a stochastic supply function to provide an aggregate representation of a finite … collection of standard deterministic supply functions. We introduce a consistency postulate for a stochastic supply function that … may be satisfied even if no underlying deterministic supply function is rationalizable in terms of profit maximization …
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rate. The supply of high-skilled workers more than doubled during this period, contributing significantly to the slowdown …
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We study price-setting behavior in German firm-level survey data to infer the relative importance of supply and demand … during the Covid-19 pandemic. Supply and demand forces coexist, but demand shortages dominate in the short run. A reported …
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rate. The supply of high-skilled workers more than doubled during this period, contributing significantly to the slowdown …
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Contrary to widespread belief, we show that low-pay workers might not generally prefer that the minimum wage rate be increased to a level where the labor demand is unitary elastic. Rather, there exists a critical value of elasticity of labor demand such that increases in the minimum wage rate...
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We show that, contrary to widespread belief, low-pay workers do not generally prefer that the minimum wage rate be increased until the labor demand is unitary elastic. Rather, there exists a critical value of elasticity of labor demand so that increases in the minimum wage rate make low-pay...
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worked that have been observed, suggesting that while the labor supply function was hypothesized to have shifted to the right …
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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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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 … increased working hours for those who already work in the profession. We find that the negative labour supply elasticities with …
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