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We focus on the effect of English deficiency on the native-immigrant wage gap for employees in the UK using the first wave of the UK Household Longitudinal Survey (Understanding Society). We show that the wage gap is robust to controls for age, region of residence, educational attainment and...
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In recent years there has been an increase in the number of children going to school in England who do not speak English as a first language. We investigate whether this has an impact on the educational outcomes of native English speakers at the end of primary school. We show that the negative...
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Pricing strategies may include the advertising of meeting-the-competition clauses (MCCs). We show in a specific spatial …
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. Information can come through two different channels: advertising and sequential consumer search. We arrive at the following … results. First, there is no monotone relationship between prices and the degree of advertising. Second, advertising and search … are “substitutes” for a large range of parameters. Third, when the cost of either search or advertising vanishes, the …
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We model the idea that when consumers search for products, they first visit the firm whose advertising is more salient …. The gains a firm derives from being visited early increase in search costs, so equilibrium advertising increases as search … heterogeneity in advertising costs. Firms whose advertising is more salient and therefore raise attention more easily charge lower …
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advertising in that medium. We apply a simple model of a product market with network externalities where firms buy advertising …. The paper is the first combining a study of media markets with a behavioral foundation of how advertising affects the …
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) industry. I present an empirical discrete-choice model of limited information on the part of consumers, where advertising … influences the set of products from which consumers choose to purchase. Multi-product firms choose prices and advertising in each … medium to maximize their profits. I apply the model to the US PC market, in which advertising expenditures are over $2 …
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price collusion in duopoly markets. Two environments are tested, in which the size of the spillover between advertising … expenditures is varied. The results show that the competitiveness of advertising and prices are significantly higher when the … advertising spillover is higher than the price spillover than when advertising spillover is lower than the price spillover. In the …
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It is sometimes argued that more advertising raises consumption which in turn stimulates output and so economic growth … advertising does not Granger-cause growth but Granger-causes consumption. Consumption, in turn, Granger-causes GDP growth. The … data imply that the immediate impact of more advertising on consumption is positive. However, the long-run effect is …
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of individuals to information. Goods advertising is competing with political information for people's attention. This …
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