Modeling the effects of wage premiums on airline competition under asymmetric economies of density: A case study from Brazil
Elsevier B.V., 2014
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This paper investigates the effects of wage premiums on the competition between Full Service Carriers (FSC) and Low Fare Carriers (LFC) in the airline industry. We study the impact of changes in the labor market and the resulting effects on performance in the product market and examine the role of economies of density. We develop an oligopoly model of airline competition with endogenous wages and simulate increases in labor costs. We apply the model to the case of the most important domestic route of Brazil using airline/route-specific demand and costs data. Our chief contribution relies on the empirical model of asymmetric economies of density for the competing business models. We estimate that LFCs have higher economies of density than FSCs. With the empirical models of demand, costs and wages, we compute the wage-elasticities of price-cost markups. We find that, on account of the higher sensitivity of marginal costs to labor costs of the FSCs, their markups are more affected by wage premium increases than the markups of the LFCs. the results are attenuated by higher economies of density, but amplified by higher price-elasticities of demand and lower economic growth. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. ; Latin Amer Ctr Transportat Econ, Aeronaut Inst Technol, Sao Jose Dos Campos, Brazil ; Inst Appl Econ Res, Brasilia, DF, Brazil ; Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil ; Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil ; Web of Science
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Modeling the effects of wage premiums on airline competition under asymmetric economies of density: A case study from Brazil
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Melo Filho, Cicero R. ; Salgado, Lucia Helena ; Sato, Renato Cesar ; Oliveira, Alessandro V. M. ; Latin Amer Ctr Transportat Econ ; Inst Appl Econ Res ; Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP) |
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Veröffentlichung: | Elsevier B.V., 2014 |
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