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A Product Market Theory of Worker Training

Gersbach, Hans; Schutzler, Armin - 2001

We develop a product market theory that explains why firms invest in general training of their workers. We consider a model where firms first decide whether to invest in general human capital, then make wage offers for each others? trained employees and finally engage in imperfect product market...

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Oligopoly and outsourcing

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Wall, Howard J. - 2005

With outsourcing comes a perceived tension between the competitive pressures faced by domestic firms and the effect that outsourcing has on domestic workers. To address this tension, we present a general-equilibrium model with an oligopolistic export sector and a competitive import-competing...

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Has Uber Made It Easier to Get a Ride in the Rain?

Brodeur, Abel; Nield, Kerry - 2016

In New York City (NYC), it has been a common complaint that it is difficult to find a taxi in the rain. Using all Uber … rides in NYC from April to September 2014 and January to June 2015, we show that the number of Uber rides is significantly … correlated with whether it rained. The number of Uber rides per hour is about 25 percent higher when it is raining, suggesting …

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Connecting Disadvantaged Communities to Work and Higher Education Opportunities: Evidence from Public Transportation Penetration to Arab Towns in Israel

Abu-Qarn, Aamer; Lichtman-Sadot, Shirlee - 2019

Disadvantaged communities are often geographically segregated from employment and higher education opportunities. Increasing access can entail substantial welfare gains, but this can also affect the tradeoff faced by young adults between investing in higher education and working for pay. We...

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Older Adult Health Following Greater Access to Secondary Health Care: Evidence from Bus Service Introductions to Arab Towns in Israel

Abu-Qarn, Aamer; Lichtman-Sadot, Shirlee - 2021

How much can socioeconomically-based health disparities be attributed to differential access to secondary and specialist health care? We evaluate this question in the context of Arab-Jewish health disparities in Israel while exploiting the introduction of public transportation to Arab...

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The Impact of Public Transportation and Commuting on Urban Labour Markets: Evidence from the New Survey of London Life and Labour, 1929-32

Seltzer, Andrew; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2021

This paper examines the consequences of the commuter transport revolution on working class labour markets in 1930s London. The ability to commute alleviated urban crowding and increased workers’ choice of potential employers. Using GIS-based data constructed from the New Survey of London Life...

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How Do Users Value a Network Expansion? Evidence from the Public Transit System in Singapore

Fesselmeyer, Eric; Liu, Haoming - 2016

We estimate the network externality of a public transit system by examining the effects of its expansion on the housing market. Our results show that a major expansion of Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system increased the price of apartments within 0.5 km of a pre-expansion station by...

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Fairness and Frictions: The Impact of Unequal Raises on Quit Behavior

Dube, Arindrajit; Giuliano, Laura; Leonard, Jonathan - 2015

We analyze how quits responded to arbitrary differences in own and peer wages using an unusual feature of a pay raise at a large U.S. retailer. The firm's use of discrete pay steps created discontinuities in raises, where workers earning within 1 cent of each other received new wages that...

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Agricultural Extension and Technology Adoption for Food Security: Evidence from Uganda

Pan, Yao; Smith, Stephen C.; Sulaiman, Munshi - 2015

This paper evaluates causal impacts of a large-scale agricultural extension program for smallholder women farmers on food security in Uganda through a regression discontinuity design that exploits an arbitrary distance-to-branch threshold for village program eligibility. We find eligible farmers...

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Nonparametric Kernel Estimation of the Impact of Tax Policy on the Demand for Private Health Insurance in Australia

Gong, Xiaodong; Gao, Jiti - 2015

This paper is motivated by our attempt to answer an empirical question: how is private health insurance take-up in Australia affected by the income threshold at which the Medicare Levy Surcharge (MLS) kicks in? We propose a new difference de-convolution kernel estimator for the location and size...

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