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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Extensive Margin"”.
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Essays in Public Economics and Health Economics
… and self-employment tax bases – on the extensive margin. In particular, we quantify the impact of changes in the differential in rates of taxation between the two tax bases on the propensity of taxpayers to declare any positive level of employment or self-employment income. Second, we …
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Three essays in international trade
… trade. By considering only the intensive margin of trade, Krugman (1980) predicts that a higher elasticity of substitution between goods magnifies the impact of trade barriers on trade flows. In this chapter, I introduce firm heterogeneity in a simple model of international trade. I prove …
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Complementary and competitive: the impact of Chinese trade on South African manufacturing exports
… terms of aggregate export values, but also the extensive margin (product count). Overall, the results suggest a positive effect arising from Chinese exports. This result is, however, dulled by the negative implications of the indirect competitive channel effect on the extensive margin. A …
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The dynamics and determinants of South African exports
… the nature, composition and determinants of the extensive margin. Two key factors that shape export patterns are considered: endowments and trade policy. The thesis also systematically unpacks the nature of the relationship between export patterns and economic development, by critically …
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ESTIMATING THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF GENDER WAGE DISCRIMINATION IN ETHIOPIA
… This is done both at the intensive and extensive margin. Accordingly, we find that more export orientation helps reduce the firm level gender wage gap regardless of whether it is at the intensive or extensive margin. Our results also provide evidence on the presence of sectoral variation …
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Essays on uninsured income risk, lumpy investment and aggregate demand
… to income shocks. Empirically, the average marginal propensity to spend (MPC) on durable goods increases with the size of income changes. I investigate whether a canonical model of lumpy durable investment with incomplete markets can replicate this fact. I first clarify analytically the …
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Essays in Urban and Spatial Economics
… city delineated by arbitrary boundaries. I find extensive margin effects of MPR reductions, which positively impacted firm entry, survival, and related local outcomes, implying MPRs increase firm entry costs and fixed costs. Estimates from a dynamic discrete choice structural game theoretic model …
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Three Essays on Health Economics
… substitute for informal long-term care at the extensive margin. Specifically, among individuals who are partially dependent for some activities of daily living (ADLs), we find that increased use of formal home care has no impact on the use of informal care at the extensive margin or on medical …
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Essays on innovation and the financing of entrepreneurship
… of entry, affecting the intensive and extensive margins of replacement innovation activities. On the intensive margin, firms expand into new markets at a slower rate due to laxer policies. On the extensive margin, fewer inventors will pursue innovations that generate superior products …
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Labour market participation and access to internet during Covid-19 lockdown: Case of South Africa
… home influences labour market attachment at the extensive margin in South Africa. Using the data from the 2020 and 2021 General Household Surveys administered by Statistics South Africa, and three identifications strategies (instrumental variable strategy, panel data methods and propensity score …
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Chutes and Ladders: Climate Variability and the Decision to Enter Sex Work in India
… also among the first to examine sex work on the extensive margin.</p>
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On The Causes and Consequences of Divorce
… women who experience divorce. At the intensive margin, findings of this chapter suggest that labour supply increases after divorce. At the extensive margin the results suggest that probability of working part time decreases for women who do not hold a university degree whereas for women with a …
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Essays on the Economics of Climate Change, Water, and Agriculture
… diffuses from crop yield (at the intensive margin) to crop allocation strategies (at the extensive margin). Using a theoretical model I show that the observed complementarity reflects a combination of two mechanisms: yield impact through physiological complementarity, and adaptation response …
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Essays on Health Economics
… has no impact on the use of informal care at the extensive margin or on medical expenses. Among individuals who are partially dependent for several ADLs, we find that increased use of institutional care leads to reductions in informal care and medical expenses. Among individuals who are completely …
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Three essays on automation, trade, and inequality
… of exchange rate volatility on the intensive and extensive margin of trade, and on income inequality within a country. It finds that the greater volatility in exchange rates lowers trade margins and income inequality. I derive testable predictions regarding the impact of exchange rate volatility …
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Essays on the macroeconomic implications of financial frictions
… the importance of the endogeneity of the marginal value of liquidity in determining the interactions between investment, financing and product price setting decisions. The model implies several testable predictions: (1) financially constrained firms are more inclined to increase their …
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Modeling, Empirics and Policy Implications of Firm Heterogeneity in International Trade
… additional productivity mechanisms and extensive margin effects. Incorporation of firm heterogeneity in mainstream CGE models offers great potential to improve computational policy analysis. Even though there have been some efforts to incorporate firm heterogeneity into CGE modeling, a …
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Essays on the macroeconomics of economic development
… static misallocation, i.e. the dispersion of marginal products, is not driven by constraints limiting expansion possibilities, but reflects the distribution of mark-ups. Dynamically, the distribution of mark-ups and the economy-wide rate of productivity growth are jointly determined by firms' …
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Three Essays on Tariff and Non-Tariff Barriers to Trade and U.S. Market Access to China
… export categories is developed: no trade margin, disappearing margin, intensive margin, and extensive margin. The findings of this paper suggest exporters gain from tariff reductions because they can establish new product relationships with the U.S. and enhance their U.S., and potentially …
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Essays on Taxation, Marriage, and Labor Supply
… essays on labor supply responses, along the extensive margin (participation into the labor force) and along the intensive margin (intensity of work on the job). The first two essays focus on the labor supply responsiveness of single women with children to taxation and welfare programs. The …
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