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Will the Stork Return to Europe and Japan? Understanding Fertility Within Developed Nations

Sacerdote, Bruce - 2008

Only a few rich nations are currently at replacement levels of fertility and many are considerably below. We believe … that changes in the status of women are driving fertility change. At low levels of female status, women specialize in … household production and fertility is high. In an intermediate phase, women have increasing opportunities to earn a living …

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Taxation of Human Capital and Wage Inequality : A Cross-Country Analysis

Guvenen, Fatih - 2009

Wage inequality has been significantly higher in the United States than in continental European countries (CEU) since the 1970s. Moreover, this inequality gap has further widened during this period as the US has experienced a large increase in wage inequality, whereas the CEU has seen only...

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Is training more frequent when wage compression is higher? : Evidence from the European community household panel

Bassanini, Andrea (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Are there asymmetries in the effects of training on the conditional male wage distribution?

Arulampalam, Wiji (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Exchange Rate Pass-Through and the Welfare Effects of the Euro

Devereux, Michael B. - 1999

This paper explores the implications of the European single currency within a simple sticky price intertemporal model. The main issue we focus on is how the euro may alter the responsiveness of consumer prices to exchange rate changes. Our central conjectures is that the acceptance of the euro...

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Price Discrimination, Copyright Law, and Technological Innovation : Evidence from the Introduction of DVDs

Mortimer, Julie Holland - 2005

This paper examines the welfare effects of intellectual property protection, accounting for firms' optimal responses to legal environments and technological innovation. I examine firms' use of indirect price discrimination in response to U.S. copyright law, which effectively prevents direct...

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How Do Monetary and Fiscal Policy Interact in the European Monetary Union?

Canzoneri, Matthew B. - 2005

Formation of the Euro area raises new questions about the coordination of monetary and fiscal policy. Using a New Neoclassical Synthesis (NNS) model, we show that a common monetary policy, responding to area-wide aggregates, has asymmetric effects on countries within the union, depending on...

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The Impact of Brexit on Foreign Investment and Production

McGrattan, Ellen R. - 2017

In this paper, we estimate the impact of increasing costs on foreign producers following a withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (popularly known as Brexit). Our predictions are based on simulations of a multicountry neoclassical growth model that includes multinational firms...

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Numerical General Equilibrium Analysis of China's Impacts from Possible Mega Trade Deals

Li, Chunding - 2014

This paper explores the potential impacts on both China and other major countries of possible mega trade deals. These include the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), and various blocked deals. We use a numerical 13-country global general...

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Comparative Advantage and the Welfare Impact of European Integration

Levchenko, Andrei A. - 2012

This paper investigates the welfare gains from European trade integration, and the role of comparative advantage in determining the magnitude of those gains. We use a multisector Ricardian model implemented on 79 countries, and compare welfare in the 2000s to a counterfactual scenario in which...

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