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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

We suggest the first large-scale international comparison of labor supply elasticities for 17 European countries and the US, separately by gender and marital status. Measurement differences are netted out by using a harmonized empirical approach and comparable data sources. We find that own-wage...

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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 …

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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 …

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Key Elasticities in Job Search Theory : International Evidence

Addison, John T.; Centeno, Mário; Portugal, Pedro - 2004

This paper exploits the informational value of search theory, after Lancaster and Chesher (1983), in conjunction with survey data on the unemployed to calculate key reservation wage and duration elasticities for most EU-15 nations.

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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 …

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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...

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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...

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Social interactions in demand

Grodner, Andrew; Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2008

We examine theoretically demand in a two-good economy where the demand of one good is influenced by either a spillover effect in the form of an externality from other consumers' choices and or a conformity effect representing a need for making similar choices as others. A positive spillover...

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Gender based taxation and the division of family chores

Alesina, Alberto; Ichino, Andrea; Karabarbounis, Loukas - 2007

Gender Based Taxation (GBT) satisfies Ramsey's optimal criterion by taxing less the more elastic labor supply of (married) women. This holds when different elasticities between men and women are taken as exogenous and primitive. But in this paper we also explore differences in gender...

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