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Wage Elasticity (wage + elasticity)

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Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting75%

Selected Abstracts

Wage policy in the health care sector: a panel data analysis of nurses' labour supply

HEALTH ECONOMICS, Issue 9 2003
Jan Erik Askildsen
Abstract Shortage of nurses is a problem in several countries. It is an unsettled question whether increasing wages constitute a viable policy for extracting more labour supply from nurses. In this paper we use a unique matched panel data set of Norwegian nurses covering the period 1993,1998 to estimate wage elasticities. The data set includes detailed information on 19 638 individuals over 6 years totalling 69 122 observations. The estimated wage elasticity after controlling for individual heterogeneity, sample selection and instrumenting for possible endogeneity is 0.21. Individual and institutional features are statistically significant and important for working hours. Contractual arrangements as represented by shift work are also important for hours of work, and omitting information about this common phenomenon will underestimate the wage effect. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

Is Child Work Necessary?,

OXFORD BULLETIN OF ECONOMICS & STATISTICS, Issue 1 2007
Sonia Bhalotra
Abstract This article investigates the hypothesis that child labour is compelled by poverty. It shows that a testable implication of this hypothesis is that the wage elasticity of child labour supply is negative. Using a large household survey for rural Pakistan, labour supply models for boys and girls in wage work are estimated. Conditioning on non-labour income and a range of demographic variables, the article finds a negative wage elasticity for boys and an elasticity that is insignificantly different from zero for girls. Thus, while boys appear to work on account of poverty compulsions, the evidence for girls is ambiguous. [source]

Multinational companies, backward linkages, and labour demand elasticities

CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS, Issue 1 2009
Holger Görg
Abstract This paper investigates the link between nationality of ownership and wage elasticities of labour demand at the level of the plant. In particular, we examine whether labour demand in multinationals becomes less elastic with respect to the wage if the plant has backward linkages with the local economy. Our empirical evidence, based on a rich plant level dataset, shows that the extent of local linkages does indeed generally reduce the wage elasticity of labour demand. This result is economically important and holds for a number of different specifications. Ce mémoire étudie le lien entre la nationalité de la propriété et les élasticités de la demande de travail par rapport aux salaires au niveau de l'établissement. En particulier, on examine si la demande de travail dans les multinationales devient moins élastique par rapport aux salaires si l'établissement a des effets en amont sur l'économie locale. Les résultats, construits à partir d'une base de données très riche au niveau de l'établissement, montrent que l'importance des effets locaux en amont réduit l'élasticité de la demande de travail par rapport aux salaires. Ces résultats sont importants au plan économique et sont robustes pour un nombre de spécifications différentes. [source]