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The Elasticity of Labor Demand and the Minimum Wage

Danziger, Leif - 2021

increased until the labor demand is unitary elastic. Rather, there exists a critical value of elasticity of labor demand so that …

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The Elasticity of Labor Demand and the Optimal Minimum Wage

Danziger, Leif - 2006

increased to a level where the labor demand is unitary elastic. Rather, there exists a critical value of elasticity of labor …

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Hidden Insurance in a Moral Hazard Economy

Bertola, Giuseppe - 2013

We consider an economy where individuals privately choose effort and trade competitively priced securities that pay off with effort-determined probability. We show that if insurance against a negative shock is sufficiently incomplete, then standard functional form restrictions ensure that...

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Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the US

Bargain, Olivier - 2011

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

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Domestic Multinationals, Foreign Affiliates, and Labour Demand Elasticities

Godart, Olivier N. - 2012

difference in the wage elasticity of labour demand persists even when we control for the skill intensity of firms or their level … multinational firms protects against strong fluctuations in labour demand. Overall, our results suggest that the wage elasticity of …

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The Frisch Elasticity in Labor Markets with High Job Turnover

Céspedes Reynaga, Nikita - 2012

We estimate Frisch elasticity in a labor market with high job turnover. In a context where only around 18% of the … Frisch elasticity. We estimate Frisch elasticity at around 0.38, which indicates fairly adjustable wages and little reaction … of hours of work to wage variations. Moreover, we find that the Frisch elasticity is decreasing in income and tended to …

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Experimental Evidence on the Relationship between Tax Evasion Opportunities and Labor Supply

Doerrenberg, Philipp - 2012

Motivated by the observation that access to evasion opportunities is distributed heterogeneously across the labor market, this paper examines the extent to which labor supply elasticities with respect to tax rates depend on such evasion opportunities. We first discuss the channels through which...

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Migration Elasticities, Fiscal Federalism and the Ability of States to Redistribute Income

Giertz, Seth H. - 2012

a variety of migration elasticity assumptions. Key outputs from the simulation include the impact of tax …

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Comparing Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the US : New Results

Bargain, Olivier - 2012

We suggest the first large-scale international comparison of labor supply elasticities for 17 European countries and the US, separately by gender and marital status. Measurement differences are netted out by using a harmonized empirical approach and comparable data sources. We find that own-wage...

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Child Care Assistance : Are Subsidies or Tax Credits Better?

Gong, Xiaodong - 2012

We evaluate price subsidies and tax credits for child care. We focus on partnered women's labor supply, household income and welfare, demand for formal and informal child care and government expenditure. Using Australian data, we estimate a joint, discrete structural model of labor supply and...

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