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Using labor supply elasticities to learn about income inequality : the role of productivities versus preferences
Bergstrom, Katy; Dodds, William - 2020
This paper argues that labor supply elasticities encode information about the determinants of income inequality. In the theoretical framework, individuals choose labor supply conditional on productivities and preferences for consumption relative to leisure. The paper shows that reduced-form...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228176
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Loss aversion and trade policy
Freund, Caroline L.; Özden, Çağlar - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002208963
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Tastes, castes, and culture : the influence of society on preferences
Fehr, Ernst; Hoff, Karla Ruth - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009412831
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Greying the budget : ageing and preferences over public policies
Mello, Luiz de; Schotte, Simone; Tiongson, Erwin R.; … - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431466
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Preferences, purchasing power parity, and inequality : analytical framework, propositions, and empirical evidence
Majumder, Amita; Ray, Ranjan; Santra, Sattwik - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343470
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Stability and evolution of preferences for improved cookstoves : a difference-in-difference analysis of a choice experiment from Ethiopia
Dissanayake, Sahan; Voigt, George; Cooper, Abbie; … - 2019
There is a growing effort in the non-market valuation literature toward better understanding of the stability and evolution of preferences over time. The study uses a novel approach combining a repeated choice experiment with a randomized controlled trial on stove adoption in Ethiopia to analyze...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059038
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Preferred and non-preferred creditors
Cordella, Tito; Powell, Andrew - 2019
International financial institutions (IFIs) generally enjoy preferred creditors treatment (PCT). Although PCT rarely appears in legal contracts, when sovereigns restructure bilateral or commercial debts they normally pay IFIs in full. This paper presents a model where a creditor, such as an IFI,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012113677
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The effects of digital-technology adoption on productivity and factor demand : firm-level evidence from developing countries
Cusolito, Ana Paula; Lederman, Daniel; Peña, Jorge - 2020
This paper presents firm-level estimates of revenue-based total factor productivity premiums of manufacturing firms … adopting digital technology in 82 developing economies over 2002–19. The paper estimates productivity using the control … function approach and assuming an endogenous revenue-based total factor productivity process, which is a function of multiple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297843
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Industrialization on a knife's edge : productivity, labor costs and the rise of manufacturing in Ethiopia
Caria, Stefano A. - Weltbank - 2019
Ethiopia's competitiveness and attractiveness as an investment destination by comparing domestic productivity and input costs …, the labor cost advantage of Ethiopian firms is more than offset by low productivity. However, Ethiopia appears competitive … when compared to Bangladesh. Capital, firm size, or sectoral composition do not explain the low productivity of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114001
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Spatial gaps in management quality : evidence from a lagging region in Croatia
Grover, Arti; Iacovone, Leonardo; Chakraborty, Pavel - 2020
Embedding management and operational practices survey in a broader firm capabilities survey, this report finds that: (i) relative to the rest of Croatia, an average firm in the lagging region of the country (Eastern Croatia) is only slightly behind in the adoption of structured management...
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