Die zentrale Funktion von Preisen is es, Signale an die Anbieter und Nachfrager auf den entsprechenden Märkten zu vermitteln. Die Sensitivität der Reaktion von Anbietern und Nachfragern auf Preisänderungen auf Boden- und Immobilienmärkten wird dabei anhand von sogenannten direkten...

Russia is experiencing deep structural changes in many areas. For the seafood industryimportant developments are large increases in household incomes, development of modernsuper- and hypermarket distribution channels, and product innovations. In the seafoodcategory consumers are adopting new...

This paper examines the aggregate demand for inputs, including housework and otherservices, used by the US household sector to produce home goods that directly provide them utilityover the post-World War II period. By assuming that households produce a commodity called homegoods and that...

Gender Based Taxation (GBT) satisfies Ramsey´s optimal criterion by taxing less the moreelastic labor supply of (married) women. This holds when different elasticities between menand women are taken as exogenous and primitive...

We show that, contrary to widespread belief, low-pay workers do not generally prefer that theminimum wage rate be increased until the labor demand is unitary elastic...

Between the years 1996 and 2003, a series of amendments were made to the Tax ReformAct of 1986 (TRA86) that gradually increased the tax credit for health insurance purchases bythe self-employed from 25 to 100 percent. We study how these changes in the tax code haveinfluenced the likelihood that...

Despite numerous studies on labor supply, the size of elasticities is rarely comparable acrosscountries. In this paper, we suggest the first large-scale international comparison ofelasticities, while netting out possible differences due to methods, data selection and theperiod of investigation....

According to the Hutchens (1999) model, early retirement is not explained as a result ofmaximizing expected individual utility but rather as a demand-side phenomenon arising froma firm’s profit-maximizing behaviour...