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Unconventional fiscal policy uses announcements of future increases in consumption taxes to generate inflation expectations and accelerate consumption expenditure. It is budget neutral and time consistent. We exploit a unique natural experiment for an empirical test of the effectiveness of...
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housing net worth on household expenditures during the Great Recession. Their widely-cited estimates are based on proprietary … specification on our data, we obtain values for the elasticity of expenditures to the housing net worth shock that are virtually … conclusions about the separate roles of house prices and initial housing exposure/leverage for the drop in expenditures. Moreover …
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commodity groups. Consumption is a distributed lag function of expenditures, and the utility function is additively separable in … each commodity group, expected change in expenditures is correlated neither with past expenditure changes on other …
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The Philippine government has focused most of its migration policy initiatives to encouraging international labour … migration and protecting the rights of Filipino migrant workers. However, government interventions and aids to left … migration on the welfare of left-behind children in the Philippines so that policies can be devised to support them. This study …
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matching, in a comparative analysis between immigrants and natives. Using the EU Labour Force Survey for the year 2012, and …
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Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying causes of their advantages are under-studied. We employ panel time-use diaries by two cohorts of children observed over a decade to present new evidence that children of Asian...
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with high-skilled immigrants with relatively few (1-5) or many (11+) years since migration. The relative responsiveness of … migration), whereas other groups of immigrants became particularly fluid during the Great Recession, such as those from new …
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We examine the heterogeneous impacts of foreign language use at work on earnings of both native-born workers and foreign-born workers, using a longitudinal survey, viz. the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) running from 1994 to 2001. Our findings are the following. First, for native-born...
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The initial earnings of U.S. immigrants vary enormously by country of origin. Via three interrelated analyses, we show earnings convergence across source countries with time in the United States. Human-capital theory plausibly explains the inverse relationship between initial earnings and...
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The immigrant (foreign-born) population increased by 32 million in total across 37 European countries from 1990 to 2019. Much of this movement was from east to west. Indeed, both the total and foreign-born populations declined in the former Eastern Bloc over this period. Such demographic shifts...
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