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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Intensive Margin"”.
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Three essays in international trade
… of international 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 …
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Impact of Occupational Flexibility on Labor Market Outcomes of Women Following Childbirth
… impacts on employment at the extensive and intensive margin. In the long term, the difference in weeks worked and weekly hours adjustments between women in high and low flexibility occupations is 3.4 weeks and 3.6 hours, respectively. Husbands’ occupational flexibility also exerts a …
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The effect of interest rates on the demand for mortgage credit in South Africa
… rate elasticity of mortgage demand along the intensive margin in South Africa. I find that homebuyers increase the size of the mortgage they take out by 2.8 percent in response to a 1 percentage point decrease in the prime interest rate. Additionally, I explore the effect on housing demand …
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Essays in Labor Economics
… with an increase in job turnover rates but no intensive margin change in hours worked. The third, joint with Damon Jones and Ernie Tedeschi, is on employment effects of the the Child Tax Credit. We estimate the extensive and intensive margin labor supplyresponse to the monthly Child Tax Credit …
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Tradable permit systems for a spatially heterogeneous externality: A microparameter approach
… an adjustment at the extensive rather than the intensive margin. To reflect real-world conditions, I consider alternative policies when the ability to monitor is imperfect. The purpose of this analysis is to understand the relative performance of tax, zoning, and trading policies to meet …
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Doctors' labour supply and incentives : a collection of essays
… examines UK doctors’ labour supply from the intensive margin. Initially, it explores trends in average weekly hours of work using data from the Labour Force Survey (LFS). Next, it compares how average weekly hours of work vary over the lifecycle for doctors and compare to with other …
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Essays on innovation and the financing of entrepreneurship
… decrease the probability 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 …
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Three essays on nutrition and health: sugar-sweetened beverages, postpartum military wellness, and online grocery shopping
… The results show that at the extensive margin, adopters of online grocery shopping are more likely to be younger, more educated, female, have eldercare responsibilities, and live in households with children under 18 years. However, individuals residing in areas with low food store access …
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Essays In Labor Economics
… and idiosyncratic shocks, human capital, and an intensive margin. Productivity shocks differ in duration and magnitude, and when hit by an adverse temporary productivity shock, firms can curtail their losses by reducing working hours. Using the estimated model, I find that short-time work was …
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On The Causes and Consequences of Divorce
… rate among 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 …
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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 contribute …
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The dynamics and determinants of South African exports
… 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 appraising …
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Essays on Insurance Asset-Liability Dynamics
… on loan payments both at the extensive and intensive margin. Additionally, I find that the effect is more pronounced among more vulnerable firms and communities.
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Essays on the Economics of Climate Change, Water, and Agriculture
… districts are able to plant more water-intensive crops than farmers outside irrigation districts. Chapter 3 presents the interaction between nature and human systems, in which I examine how the physiological complementarity of temperature and water availability diffuses from crop yield …
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Essays on Money, Trade and the Labour Market
… surplus share is inefficiently small, the intensive margin is distorted and the constrained optimal policy combines a sales tax with a money growth rate above that prescribed by the Friedman rule. Monetary, but not fiscal, policy alters the agent's bargaining position, leaving a special …
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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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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
… 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 third essay …
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Macro Economics Essays on Technological Change
… model in which firms invest capital more intensively in regions with higher employment share of college graduates, explaining these three channels jointly. Finally I quantitatively assess the model by separately calibrating the regional aggregate production function; the results show that …
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