Labor as a quasi-fixed factor

WY Oi - Journal of political economy, 1962 - journals.uchicago.edu
T HE cyclical behavior of labor mar-kets reveals a number of puzzling features for which
there are no truly satisfying explanations. Included among these are (1) occupational …

A Disneyland dilemma: Two-part tariffs for a Mickey Mouse monopoly

WY Oi - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1971 - academic.oup.com
A two-part tariff is one in which the consumer must pay a lump sum fee for the right to buy a
product. Examples of two-part tariffs are found in the rental of computers and copying …

The desirability of price instability under perfect competition

WY Oi - Econometrica: journal of the Econometric Society, 1961 - JSTOR
1 The author wishes to express his indebtedness to Professors AA Alchian,(UCLA), RW
Clower,(Northwestern University), and M. Friedman,(University of Chicago) for their …

Firm size and wages

WY Oi, TL Idson - Handbook of labor economics, 1999 - Elsevier
Jobs differ along many dimensions including firm size. The wage gap due to firm size of 35%
is comparable to the gender wage gap of 36% for men over women and greater than the …

The economic cost of the draft

WY Oi - The American Economic Review, 1967 - JSTOR
The draft represents one means of supplying the armed forces with qualified personnel.
Under the current draft, accessions to military service are of three types:(1) true volunteers …

Heterogeneous firms and the organization of production

WY Oi - Economic Inquiry, 1983 - Wiley Online Library
Firms in the same industry exhibit systematic differences in the organization of production
and the structure of employment. Entrepreneurial ability is the specific scarce input that limits …

Workers are more productive in large firms

TL Idson, WY Oi - American Economic Review, 1999 - pubs.aeaweb.org
Wages are positively related to firm size. This relation was discovered by Henry L. Moore
(1911) and later confirmed by, among others, Charles Brown and James Medoff (1989). The …

The economics of product safety

WY Oi - The Bell Journal of Economics and Management …, 1973 - JSTOR
The report of the National Commission on Product Safety stated that the American public is
being exposed to many unreasonably hazardous products. Further, the post-accident …

2. The Fixed Employment Costs of Specialized Labor

WY Oi, ER Berndt - The measurement of labor cost, 2007 - degruyter.com
JM Clark (1923) in Studies in the Economics of Overhead Costs. The fixed cost hypothesis
was developed to explain the occupational differences in employment and wage rate …

An analysis of urban travel demands

WY Oi, PW Shuldiner - 1962 - trid.trb.org
CONTENTS: A THEORY OF CONSUMER BEHAVIOR IN URBAN TRAVEL ORIGIN-AND-
DESTINATION STUDIES: A CRITICAL EVALUATION THE DETERMINANTS OF TRIP …