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Voting with your Children: A Positive Analysis of Child Labour Laws

Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

We develop a positive theory of the adoption of child-labour regulation, based on two key mechanisms. First, parental decisions on family size interact with their preferences for child-labour regulation. Second, the supply of child labour affects skilled and unskilled wages. If policies are...

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Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism

Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

The British Industrial Revolution triggered a reversal in the social order whereby the landed elite was replaced by industrial capitalists rising from the middle classes as the economically dominant group. Many observers have linked this transformation to the contrast in values between a...

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Equilibrium Unemployment Insurance

Hassler, John; Mora, Rodríguez; Vicente, José; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

In this paper, we incorporate a positive theory of unemployment insurance into a dynamic overlapping generations model with search-matching frictions and on-the-job learning-by-doing. The model shows that societies populated by identical rational agents, but differing in the initial distribution...

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A Positive Theory of Geographic Mobility and Social Insurance

Hassler, John; Mora, José V Rodríguez; Storesletten, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper presents a tractable dynamic general equilibrium model that can explain cross-country empirical regularities in geographical mobility, unemployment and labour market institutions. Rational agents vote over unemployment insurance (UI), taking the dynamic distortionary effects of...

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Carl Menger and Friedrich von Wieser on the role of knowledge and beliefs

Festré, Agnès - HAL - 2012

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Knowledge and individual behaviour in the Austrian tradition of business cycles: von Mises vs. Hayek

Festré, Agnès - HAL - 2003

in Mises and Hayek's explanations of the different hases of the trade cycle, by underlying the role played by knowledge …

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Macroeconomic analysis and individual economic rationality: some lessons from Wicksell to Schumpeter and von Mises

Arena, Richard; Festré, Agnès - HAL - 2005

The purpose of this contribution is to investigate the problem of the room attributed to individual economic rationality by circulation approaches. Our investigation will not privilege however the modern contributions of this approach but will instead utilize the works of some economists of the...

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Introduction

Arena, Richard; Festré, Agnès - HAL - 2006

This book surveys how economists engage with knowledge and beliefs in various fields of economic analysis, such as … perspective on the meaning, as well as the role, of knowledge and beliefs in economics in the future. Possible lines of future … action are discussed.A platform for future research and investigation into the role of knowledge and beliefs in economics …

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Carl Menger and Friedrich von Wieser on the role of knowledge and beliefs

Festré, Agnès - HAL - 2009

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Innovation vs imitation and the evolution of productivity distributions

König, Michael; Lorenz, Jan; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We develop a tractable dynamic model of productivity growth and technology spillovers that is consistent with the emergence of real world empirical productivity distributions. Firms can improve productivity by engaging in in-house R&D, or alternatively, by trying to imitate other firms’...

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