in this study economic and welfare impacts of establishing irrigation water market in qazvin province as well as potentiality of irrigation water transfer under stress irrigation conditions in the cities of qazvin province were analyzed. to achieve the above objectives, positive mathematical programming model and state wide agricultural production functions were used. to achieve applicable resu...

This article estimates the effect of labor-market concentration on labor compensation across US private sector since 2000. The authors distinguish between in local markets and product while guarding against bias from confounded product-market concentration. analysis extends beyond wages to rates employment-based health insurance coverage. Reported results suggest negative effects compensation. ...

I present a model where firms and workers set wages above the market-clearing level. Unemployment is thus generated by their exercise of market power. Because both the labor and product markets are imperfectly competitive, market power in the labor market interacts with market power in the product market. This interaction sheds new light on the effects of policy interventions on unemployment an...

Accounting for Labor Demand Effects in Structural Labor Supply Models When assessing the effects of policy reforms on the labor market, most studies only focus on labor supply. The interaction of supply and demand side is not explicitly modeled, which might lead to biased estimates of potential labor market outcomes. This paper proposes a straightforward method to remedy this shortcoming. We us...

Labor market conditions, i.e. labor market tightness and prevailing wages, determine the cost of hiring new workers and thus can have a profound impact on employment growth. In this paper, I estimate firm level elasticity of labor demand with respect to changes in labor market conditions, allowing for heterogeneous response both across firms and across regions. I consider changes along two marg...

How Important Are Labor Market Institutions for Labor Market Performance in Transition Countries? This paper offers a first comprehensive study of the relationship between labor market institutions and policies and labor market performance in the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, which in the last two decades experienced radical economic and institutional transformations. Based on a...

Medicare hospital payments are adjusted to reflect variation in hospital wages across geographic areas by grouping hospitals into labor market areas. By only recognizing the average wage in an area, Medicare encourages hospitals to contain costs. Labor market area definitions have recently received renewed attention because of their impact on hospital payments. Alternative labor market areas we...