Sentences with phrase «studies by economists»

However, many studies by economists tend to support the minimum wage increase saying that it will decrease income inequality and reduce poverty.

This directly flies in the face of a much more broadly researched set of studies by economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff that reached the opposite conclusion — that recoveries from financial crises, and not just regular recessions, are agonizingly slow.

In fact, according to a 2012 study by the Economist Intelligence Unit, 66 % of multinational companies say «talent shortages are likely to affect their bottom line within the next 5 years.»

Local residents» pay did not take drastic hits when entire seasons have been cancelled in the past, according to a 2001 study by economists Dennis Coates and Brad Humphreys.

A 2016 study by economists and Uber data experts found that when Uber alerted passengers that fares had doubled — part of Uber's older «surge pricing» scheme — ride purchases immediately fell by about 40 %.

One study by economist Elaine McCrate found that any reduction in wages associated with the benefit of flexibility is modest at best and, in fact, many jobs with greater flexibility have higher wages.137 Furthermore, the volatility of earnings for many independent contractors would offset any compensating wage differentials, because workers can not compare the value of flexibility to higher earnings when they aren't able to predict their earnings as independent contractors.138

Just as an aside: Let's not even bother with the part of Wallison's argument where he cites a study by economists Michael Bordo and Joseph Haubrich claiming «deep contractions breed strong recoveries.»

To date, over sixteen studies have looked at this issue and the impact on abortion, birth or pregnancy rates, the best of which is probably a study by economist Philip Levine [2].

Longman identifies the key fact by quoting a 1977 study by economists Spencer Spengler and Robert Clark: «Expenditures for the elderly at all levels of government exceed the amount spent on children, age seventeen and under, including the total amount spent on public education, by more than three to one.»

New York's business tax incentives, a cornerstone of Cuomo's two terms in office, are the most expensive and among the least effective of any in the country, according to a recent study by an economist.

New York's business tax incentives, a cornerstone of Governor Cuomo «s two terms in office, are the most expensive and among the least effective of any in the country, according to a recent study by an economist.

Egypt will be in similar trouble, according to a study by economist James Broadus and several colleagues at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

And according to a study by economist Roger Svensson, even though Swedish universities account for a third of all the country?s R&D, in the medicine and hygiene sectors university - related scientists and companies own only 10 % of recent patents.

A Northwestern University study by an economist and a chemist reports that when fuel prices drove residents of São Paulo, Brazil, to mostly switch from ethanol to gasoline in their flexible - fuel vehicles, local ozone levels dropped 20 percent.

A recent study by The Economist shows consumers — especially millennials — prefer companies who have social purpose.

Division of labor has worked wonders for the production of clothing, computers, and automobiles — but it doesn't have the same transformational effect on productivity in teaching, a new study by economist Roland G. Fryer Jr., finds.

The TV reality show 16 and Pregnant was responsible for one - third of the reduction in the teen birth rate in 2009 — 10, according to a study by economists Phillip Levine, at Wellesley College, and Melissa Kearney, at the University of Maryland.

For example, the quasi-experimental study by economists Tom Kane and Josh Angrist on Boston charter schools, which compared the winners and losers of charter admission lotteries, helped change the Massachusetts law that had blocked the creation of new charters.

They also have a negative effect on their classroom peers, resulting in decreased test scores and increased disciplinary problems according to a new study by economists Scott Carrell of the University of California — Davisand Mark Hoekstra of the University of Pittsburgh, published in the summer issue of Education Next.

Iron - deficiency anemia is among the world's most widespread health problems, especially for children, but it is rarely studied by economists.

Those jobs declined in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, according to a study by economist Anton Cheremukhin of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank.

A study by economists David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald shows that countries that experience an increase in homeownership usually see an increase in unemployment rates within 5 years, because homeowners can't relocate for work.

They were thanked in the acknowledgements of a study by economists from MIT, Northwestern and the National Bureau of Economic Research, which was subsequently touted by the conservative Heritage Foundation.

In fact, of the four profitability «levers» studied by economists (fixed costs, variable costs, price, volume), price is the clear frontrunner, yielding the highest profit gains.

A recent independent study by economist Dr. Everett Ehrlich projected that the Patent Reform Act of 2009, as written, would create 100,000 new jobs over the next five years.

According to a recent study by economists at the Vancouver School of Economics, changing industries during your 20s is good for your career and your earning potential.

Not exact matches

According to a Yale study conducted by U.S. economist Daniel Hamermesh, attractive men can earn 9 percent more than their average - looking colleagues, while attractive women could see a bump of up to 4 percent.

Two Swiss economists who studied the effect of commuting on happiness found that such factors could not make up for the misery created by a long commute.

He recalled a 2010 study by Princeton behavioral economist Daniel Kahneman finding that, while people did not feel happier on a daily basis as their income rose above $ 75,000, they were decidedly unhappier the less they earned below $ 75,000.

The above chart, excerpted from a study on the American manufacturing sector by economists Martin Baily and Barry Bosworth, shows that manufacturing is going through the same transformation that agriculture underwent a century ago.

As explained on the TED Ideas blog by economist and author Tim Harford, the study compared volunteers» productivity on a routine task in a variety of spaces.

Citing studies on disruptive innovation by the likes of 20th - century economist Joseph Shumpeter, he makes an analogy with the energy industry.

In a study for the Fraser Institute, Economist Stephen T. Easton attempted to calculate how much tax revenue the Canadian government could gain by legalizing marijuana.

To make sense of what's really behind the fluctuations in the market, we are joined by economist Michael Hudson, president of the Institute for the Study of Long - Term Economic Trends, a Wall Street financial analyst and author...

«Repatriations did not lead to an increase in domestic investment, employment or R. & D., even for the firms that lobbied for the tax holiday stating these intentions,» concluded the study, which was conducted by a team of three economists that included a former Bush administration official.

An analysis by University of Chicago Law School economists David S. Evans, Howard Chang, and Steven Joyce entitled «The Impact of the U.S. Debit Card Interchange Fee Regulation on Consumer Welfare: An Event Study Analysis» quantifies just how much consumers are expected to lose, rather than gain, from The Durbin amendment.

Remind yourselves that the CFTC fired economist Andre Kirilenko after he correctly studied and concluded that the Flash Crash was not caused by a midwestern mutual fund.

In a 2014 study examining the career paths of more than 34,000 current and former regulators, New York Fed economists showed there was a revolving door, but not necessarily driven by the quid - pro-quo that critics are focused on.

The study, by Unifor economist and CCPA vice-president Jim Stanford, analyses CETA's likely effects on Canadian automotive trade, investment, and employment and claims the trade deal will make Canada's current trade imbalance with the EU incrementally worse.

Economists study the production and distribution of resources, goods, and services by collecting and analyzing data, researching trends, and evaluating economic issues.

This study is the second in a series on Canada's Auto Industry by Unifor Economist Jim Stanford.

Trying to limit how merged companies operate rarely prevents them from raising prices substantially, according to a 2012 study by Northeastern University economist John Kwoka.

Tom Luongo is a former research chemist by trade and an Austrian Economist by study and a market analyst by choice.

That's one takeaway of new research by a group of economists studying penny stocks that were heavily touted through suspect email campaigns.

According to a study by Treasury Department economists, «excess» or above - average profits by a few global giants have increased.

«University of California, San Diego, economist James Hamilton noted in a recent study that 10 out of 11 post-World War II recessions [PDF] in the United States were preceded by a sharp increase in the price of crude petroleum.

A study by Dartmouth economist Bruce Sacerdote found that family income and neighborhood income have no effect on adoptee's success in school and work.

This phenomenon has been the subject of endless studies and is termed «moral hazard» by economists.

A few economists have done studies that show that the improvement is less than indicated, but they have not kept these up or urged their adoption by government officials charged with reporting economic statistics.

Theological study focused on congregations is not just accidentally related to the things studied by sociologists, anthropologists, economists, and social psychologists; it inherently involves such matters.