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The role of national/regional identity in aircraft ordering
Grancay, Martin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The goal of this paper is to analyze impacts of the factor of national/regional identity on aircraft ordering by airlines and other corporate clients. The main focus is on Airbus and Boeing as these are the most important airliner producers of today. After an extensive study of aircraft orders...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008458495
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The Future of the Fence Around the EU Labour Market
Kox, Henk L.M. - 2016
The paper investigates the welfare aspects of the European Union's restrictions on labour immigration, especially the restrictions on the free movement of medium- and low-skilled labour from outside the EU. The welfare implications of restrictive labour immigration are found to be considerable,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977681
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Regional Variations in Labor Demand Elasticities: Evidence from U.S. Counties
Maiti, Abhradeep; Indra, Debarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We use a large panel dataset covering the years 1988 to 2010 to estimate county specific total wage elasticities of labor demand for four highly aggregated industries in the United States. Our industries are construction, finance/real estate/service, manufacturing, and retail trade, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112080
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A Brief Genesis of the North Atlantic Air Transport
Grancay, Martin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The aim of our paper is to analyze civil aviation relations between the United States of America and the European Union - constituting the most important intercontinental air transportation market in the world. Air transport between the EU and USA was traditionally regulated by bilateral Air...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619592
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The economic impacts of air transport liberalization
Grancay, Martin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Air transport liberalization constitutes a whole new level of globalization. The impacts it brings can be divided into direct, indirect, induced and catalytic. The magnitude of impacts is determined by various factors, including air transport liberalization multiplier, market saturation and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005078688
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Airports and Urban Growth: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Policy Experiment
Blonigen, Bruce A.; Cristea, Anca D. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
While significant work has been done to examine the determinants of regional development, there is little evidence on the contribution of air services toward this outcome. This paper exploits the unexpected market changes induced by the 1978 Airline Deregulation Act to bring new evidence on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110006
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Air Transport and Destination Performance – A case study of three African countries (Ethiopia, Kenya and South Africa)
Tchouamou Njoya, Eric - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Tourism is increasingly being promoted as an important source of economic growth especially in developing countries. While there are many elements that contribute to tourism growth, without an efficient air transport system, it is almost impossible for a number of landlocked and geographically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260537
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Availability of credit to small and minority-owned businesses: Evidence from the 1993 National Survey of Small Business Finances
Cole, Rebel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
This article analyzes factors influencing the decisions of prospective lenders to extend credit to small and minority-owned businesses. Using data from a government survey of small businesses, the analysis reveals that prospective lenders (primarily commercial banks)are four times more likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616652
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A Systematic Assessment of Employer Equal Employment Opportunity Efforts as a Means of Reducing the Gender Earnings Gap
Graham, Mary E.; Hotchkiss, Julie L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
discrimination, hiring discrimination, and job placement discrimination (including discrimination in promotions). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616798
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Socially-Tolerable Discrimination
Amegashie, J. Atsu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
History is replete with overt discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, ethnicity, marital status … discrimination are not equally tolerable. For example, discrimination based on immutable or prohibitively unalterable characteristics … driven by either racial (gender or ethnic) discrimination or generational discrimination (i.e., young versus old). When the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619655