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An Evaluation of the Employment Effects of Barriers to Outsourcing

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2011

Barriers to outsourcing that are being currently implemented in the US effectively tax its companies who "export" jobs through outsourcing. The objective is to raise domestic employment. Given that many of the important international markets where the US has a comparative advantage feature...

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Secular Satiation

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2017

Satiation of need is generally ignored by growth theory. I study a model where consumers may be satiated in any given … satiation. This, despite that the social costs of innovation are second order compared to their social benefits … savings reduces interest rates, which boosts the rate of innovation.When TFP grows exogenously and labor supply is endogenized …

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The Demand for Variety : A Household Production Perspective

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2007

Economists have devoted substantial attention to firms' supply of variety, but little to consumers' demand for variety. Employing the framework of home production, we trace differences in demand to differences in the opportunity costs of activities, which are associated with investments in human...

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Oligopoly and Outsourcing

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2006

With outsourcing comes a perceived tension between the competitive pressures faced by domestic firms and the effect that outsourcing has on domestic workers. To address this tension, we present a general-equilibrium model with an oligopolistic export sector and a competitive import-competing...

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Wage Determination and Imperfect Competition

Booth, Alison L. - 2014

A striking feature of the past few decades has been the development of wage-determination models that assume that labour markets are imperfectly competitive. This paper discusses two such models (trade unions and oligopsony), although there are many more. It also asks if imperfectly competitive...

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Information and Learning in Oligopoly : An Experiment

Bigoni, Maria - 2013

choices with data on the information acquisition process they follow. Subjects play a repeated Cournot oligopoly, with limited …

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National Champion versus Foreign Takeover

Südekum, Jens - 2021

We analyze an oligopolistic market where a domestic and a foreign firm are engaged in a takeover battle for a domestic competitor. Any merger or acquisition (M&A) must be approved by a welfare maximizing domestic competition agency which may or may not be prone to "economic patriotism". A...

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Information Integration, Coordination Failures, and Quality of Prescribing

Böckerman, Petri; Laine, Liisa T.; Nurminen, Mikko; … - 2021

Poor information flows hamper coordination, potentially leading to suboptimal decisions in health care. We examine the effects of a nationwide policy of information integration on the quality of prescribing. We use the rollout of an electronic prescribing system in Finland and prescription-level...

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Repeated Job Quits : Stepping Stones or Learning about Quality?

Gielen, Anne C. - 2021

Despite the fact that worker quits are often associated with wage gains and higher overall job satisfaction, many workers quit once again within one or two years after changing jobs initially. Such repeated job quit behavior may arise as a stepping stone to better quality jobs (Burdett, 1978) or...

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Incidence of Strict Quality Standards : Protection of Consumers or Windfall for Professionals?

Kawaguchi, Daiji - 2013

This paper examines the effects of upgrading product quality standards on product and professional labor-market equilibriums when both markets are regulated. The Japanese government revised the Building Standards Act in June 2007, requiring a stricter review process for admitting the plans of...

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