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How important is the exercise of classical monopsony power against labor for the level of wages and labor's share? We … novel screen to quantify how wages are affected by market power exerted in labor markets, either by a single firm or a group … of cooperating firms. The theory guides the measurement of labor "markdowns", i.e., the gap between wage and the value of …
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the long-run effects on health, labor, and human capital of both historical pandemics (with a focus on the 1918 Influenza …
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US can increase tax revenues by 30% by raising labor taxes and by 6% by raising capital income taxes. For the EU-14 we …We compare Laffer curves for labor and capital taxation for the US, the EU-14 and individual European countries, using … obtain 8% and 1%. Dynamic scoring for the EU-14 shows that 54% of a labor tax cut and 79% of a capital tax cut are self …
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We study the dynamic taxation of capital and labor in the Ramsey model under the assumption that taxes and public good …
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This paper studies the conditions under which the scarcity of a factor (in particular, labor) encourages technological … supply of labor encourages technological progress. In contrast, the famous Habakkuk hypothesis in economic history claims … that technological progress was more rapid in 19th-century United States than in Britain because of labor scarcity in the …
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We use the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys data to analyze the employment of both labor and capital in Indian …
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Has leisure increased over the last century? Standard measures of hours worked suggest that it has. In this paper, we develop a comprehensive measure of non-leisure hours that includes market work, home production, commuting and schooling for the last 105 years. We also present empirical and...
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the economic concepts of income, substitutability and complementarity, and opportunity cost to the analysis of behavior. A … consumption (i.e., employment reduces behavioral income for drug use). Because money buys drugs, monetary pay for work may … behavioral income restrictions, reinforcer substitutability and complementarity, and opportunity cost suggests that the utility …
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The responses of workers and their employers to the onset of work-limiting health impairments were investigated using data from the new Health and Retirement Survey. The results indicate that many workers who suffer from health limitations are directly accommodated by their employers, and that...
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In this paper, we investigate the complex interrelationships among worktime, wages and health identified in the Grossman model of the demand for health. We specify a 3-equation simultaneous model designed to capture the tune dependent character of these interrelationships, and estimate the model...
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