choices in explaining the large variation in elasticity size observed across studies. While some recent studies show that …

finding is especially strong on the extensive margin where the elasticity for a wage decrease is twice that for a wage …

. Building on 942 elasticity estimates from 105 different studies, we identify sources of variation in the absolute value of this … elasticity. Heterogeneity due to the theoretical and empirical specification of the labor demand model, different datasets used … evidence for the presence of publication selection bias, as estimates of the own-wage elasticity of labor demand are upwardly …

(electricity and heating) in Germany. Using official expenditure data from 1993 to 2008, we estimate an expenditure elasticity for … electricity of 0.3988 and of 0.4055 for space heating. The own price elasticity for electricity is -0.4310 and -0.5008 in the case … increases in energy prices show a regressive pattern of incidence, implying that the welfare consequences of direct energy …