Does Identity Affect Labor Supply?

Does height affect labor supply ? Implications of product variety and caloric needs

The positive correlation between hourly wages and height, which results in higher labor supply of tall individuals, is well-documented in the literature. Accepting the utilitarian perspective and assuming that height does not aff ect utility implies that linking income taxes to height is welfare improving. This paper argues that height might not only aff ect an individual’s income but also util...

How does resource supply affect evolutionary diversification?

The availability of different resources in the environment can affect the outcomes of evolutionary diversification. A unimodal distribution of diversity with resource supply has been widely observed and explained previously in the context of selection acting in a spatially heterogeneous environment. Here, we propose an alternative mechanism to explain the relationship between resource supply an...

How Does China’s New Labor Contract Law Affect Floating Workers?

After great national debate and controversy, in June 2007 China enacted a new Labor Contract Law that legally obligated firms to give workers written contracts as of January 2008. This paper uses survey data of migrant workers before and after the law to assess its effects on labor market outcomes. It finds that the new Law increased the percentage of workers with written contracts, raised soci...

Labor Strife in Public Schools: Does it Affect Education Production?

Does Bilateral Trust Affect International Movement of Goods and Labor

Trust in the citizens of a potential partner country may affect the decision to trade with or to migrate to a foreign country. This paper employs panel data to examine the causal impact of such bilateral trust on international trade and migration patterns. We apply instrumental variables (IV) approaches that capture the exogenous variance of bilateral trust separately with eight indicators of g...