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Flexibility of Firms' Labor Demand: Substitutability or Complementarity.
Bellmann, Lutz; Bender, Stefan; Schank, Thorsten - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 219 (1999) 1+2, pp. 109-126
unskilled, skilled and highly skilled employees) for West German production industries for the year 1995. Substitution … substitution between blue collar and white collar workers are relatively low; unskilled, skilled and highly skilled blue collar …
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Innovations, Wages and Demand for Heterogeneous Labour: New Evidence from a Matched Employer-Employee Data-Set
Bellmann, Lutz; Schank, Thorsten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data from the IAB-establishment panel survey and the files of the employment statistics register for the year 1995, input shares derived from a generalised Leontief cost function are...
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Suriname: Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
This Selected Issues paper focuses on constructing a high-frequency economic growth indicator for Suriname. Most economic data for Suriname are available only with a substantial time lag and on a low-frequency basis, impeding such analyses. This paper presents a simple econometric model that...
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The religious transition. A long-run perspective
Paldam, Martin; Gundlach, Erich - In: Public Choice 156 (2013) 1, pp. 105-123
Religiosity is defined as the importance of religion in all aspects of life. The definition is operationalized into a robust measure by aggregating 14 items from the World Values Surveys. Religiosity falls by 50 % when countries pass through the transition from being underdeveloped to becoming...
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Consumer substitution decisions: an integrative framework
Hamilton, Rebecca; Thompson, Debora; Arens, Zachary; … - In: Marketing Letters 25 (2014) 3, pp. 305-317
Substitution decisions have been examined from a variety of perspectives. The economics literature measures cross … research has examined substitution-in-use, brand switching, stockouts, and self-control. We integrate these perspectives into a … common framework for understanding consumer substitution decisions; their specific drivers (availability of new alternatives …
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Ramsey discounting of ecosystem services
Baumgaertner, Stefan; Klein, Alexandra M.; Thiel, Denise; … - 2013
Most ecosystem services, which are essential for human well-being, are globally declining, while the production of consumption goods, measured by GDP, is still growing. To adequately account for this opposite development in public cost-benefit analyses, it has been proposed - based on a...
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Energy Substitution, Production, and Trade in the US
Thompson, Henry - Department of Economics, Auburn University - 2010
the US. Energy has a robust marginal product and significant substitution in a novel production function motivated by the …
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Testing the bed-blocking hypothesis: does higher supply of nursing and care homes reduce delayed hospital discharges?
Gaughan, James; Gravelle, Hugh; Siciliani, Luigi - Centre for Health Economics, Department of Economics … - 2014
Hospital bed blocking occurs when hospital patients are ready to be discharged to a nursing home but no place is available, so that hospital care acts as a more costly substitute for long-term care. We investigate the extent to which higher supply of nursing home beds or lower prices can reduce...
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Identifying Demand Responses to Illegal Drug Supply Interdictions
Cunningham, Scott; Finlay, Keith - Department of Economics, Tulane University - 2013
marijuana. Methamphetamine demand is price inelastic with substantial substitution to other drugs. …
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The Challenge of Attracting Football Fans to Stadia?
Solberg, Harry Arne; Mehus, Ingar - In: International Journal of Sport Finance 9 (2014) 1, pp. 3-19
This article, which is based on an empirical survey of Norwegian football fans, illustrates that frequent viewership of football on TV can make it difficult to maintain attendance levels at the stadium. Fans of clubs that were featured the most often on free-to-air TV channels attended fewer...
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