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@JanDavidBakker and my work shows capping rental broker fees to tenants in the UK was broadly successful, and the main reason is fee salience + imperfect comp. Here’s an article in The Conversation about it.

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RT @CEP_LSE: Zero hour contracts can play an important role in a modern economy but workers on ZHC are liable to have wages marked down com…

@luke_newberry I imagine other demographics in these jobs are the ones with much higher turnover rates as they’re using it as a temp fix during job search, so again probably quite wage insensitive / strong pref for this sort of contract

If you want to read more, you can find the paper here: Thanks for reading! 20/20

8. I also show firms use ZHCs to weather (sorry) demand shocks. Some of my establishments are al-fresco and so exposed to weather shocks. Al-fresco establishments are shown to adjust ZHC hours v flexibly wrt weather conditions, which is a proxy for demand in this setting. 11/n