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Temporary and circular migration programs have been devised by many destination countries and supported by the European … additional reason for proposing temporary migration policies based on the characteristics of the foreign labor-effort supply. The … when temporary migration policies are adopted. -- Migration ; Exertion of effort ; Contracted Temporary Migration …
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There has been little rigorous evaluation of immigration barriers intended to improve domestic terms of employment by shrinking the workforce. We study one such barrier, a policy change that excluded almost half a million Mexican bracero seasonal agricultural workers from the United States....
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Rural to urban migration is an integral part of the development process, but there is little evidence on how out-migration …) a decrease in the price of non-tradables like prepared food and tea. Seasonal migration subsidies not only generate …
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Expenditure visibility—the extent to which a household's spending on a consumption category is noticeable to others—is measured in three new surveys, with ~3,000 telephone and online respondents. Visibility shows little change across time (ten years) and survey methods. Four different...
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In this paper we document significantly steeper declines in nondurable expenditures in the UK compared to the US, in … ownership and expenses, levels and paths of health status, number of household members, and out-of -pocket medical expenditures …
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"In this paper we revisit two well-known facts regarding lifecycle expenditures. The first is the familiar "hump …" shaped lifecycle profile of nondurable expenditures. We document that the behavior of total nondurables masks surprising … heterogeneity in the lifecycle profile of individual sub-components. We find, for example, that while food expenditures decline …
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