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The responsiveness of remittances to the oil price: the case of the GCC
Naufal, George S.; Termos, Ali - 2009
price elasticity of remittances is around 0.4. While most studies have examined the impact of remittances on the real …
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Comparing labor supply elasticities in Europe and the US: New results
Bargain, Olivier; Orsini, Kristian; Peichl, Andreas - 2012
regions, consistent with complementarity in spouses' leisure in the US versus substitution in spouses' household production in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287662
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The Shape of Hiring and Separation Costs
Michaud, Marie-Laure; Kramarz, Francis - 2004
In this article, we estimate the structure of costs of hiring, terminating, and retiring employees in France. We use a representative panel data set of French establishments that contains direct measures of these various costs as well as measures of entries and exits for the years 1992 and 1996....
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Innovations, Wages and Demand for Heterogeneous Labour: New Evidence from a Matched Employer-Employee Data-Set
Bellmann, Lutz; Schank, Thorsten - 2000
This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data from the IAB-establishment panel survey and the files of the employment statistics register for the year 1995, input shares derived from a generalised Leontief cost function are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262337
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Trade Liberalization and Labor-Demand Elasticities : Empirical Evidence from Tunisia
Haouas, Ilham; Yagoubi, Mahmoud - 2004
and labor-demand elasticities. This weakness of labor demand elasticity in practice is perhaps explained by the tight …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261844
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Wage Elasticity of the Teacher Supply in Switzerland
Wolter, Stefan C.; Denzler, Stefan - 2003
In order to learn more about the wage elasticity of the teacher supply in Switzerland, this paper estimates wages for …-1999. The data allows us to estimate the wage elasticity for entry wages of upper secondary school teachers. In the cases … examined, the wage differential is highly significant and shows a wage elasticity for the teacher supply of 0.12% to 0 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261950
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Using Panel Data on Income Satisfaction to Estimate the Equivalence Scale Elasticity
Schwarze, Johannes - 2000
In this paper a new method to estimate the equivalence scale elasticity using individual panel data on income … respondents to be controlled. The approach gives straightforward evidence: Obviously there is an optimal elasticity at which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262430
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Overtime Work Dual Job Holding and Taxation
Frederiksen, Anders; Graversen, Ebbe Krogh; Smith, Nina - 2001
Traditionally, labour supply data do not include much information on hours and wages in secondary job or overtime work. In this paper, we estimate labour supply models based on survey information on hours and wages in overtime work and second job which is merged to detailed register information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262528
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Marshall and Labour Demand in Russia: Going Back to Basics
Konings, Jozef; Lehmann, Hartmut - 2001
Using a unique enterprise-level data set, which covers the regions Moscow City, Chelyabinsk, Krasnoyarsk and Chuvashia and the three sectors manufacturing and mining, construction and trade and distribution, we estimate Russian labour demand equations for the year 1997. The most important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262578
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Estimating the firm's labor supply curve in a new monopsony framework: school teachers in Missouri
Ransom, Michael R.; Sims, David P. - 2009
In the context of certain dynamic models, it is possible to infer the elasticity of labor supply to the firm from the … elasticity of the quit rate with respect to the wage. Using this property, we estimate the average labor supply elasticity to … schedules to instrument for actual salary. Instrumental variables estimates lead to a labor supply elasticity estimate of about …
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