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A Dual Policy Paradox: Why Have Trade and Immigration Policies Always Differed in Labour-Scarce Economies?
Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
opposite, open immigration and closed trade policies. Why the inverse policy correlation, and why has it persisted for almost … two centuries? This paper seeks answers to this dual policy paradox by exploring the fundamentals which have influenced … the evolution of policy: the decline in the costs of migration and its impact on immigrant selectivity, a secular switch …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114287
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What Determines Immigrations' Impact? Comparing Two Global Centuries
Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
links between these economic relationships and immigration policy. It concludes with an explanation for the apparent … difference in immigration's impact in the two global centuries, and thus on policy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656429
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Chapter 25 The political economy of intergenerational cooperation
Cigno, Alessandro - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1505-1558). 2006
-best policy include a pension and a child benefit scheme. Section 6 rexamines the same issues in the presence of educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023653
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Environmental decentralization and political centralization
Fredriksson, Per G.; Wollscheid, Jim R. - In: Ecological Economics 107 (2014) C, pp. 402-410
In this paper, we investigate how political institutions affect policy outcomes. In particular, does the level of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010939581
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Citizens' support for economic reforms in sub-Saharan Africa
Congdon Fors, Heather - In: The South African journal of economics 84 (2016) 3, pp. 343-363
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011656864
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Skills and labour market performance in Sweden
Bussi, Margherita; Pareliussen, Jon K. - 2015
Both educational attainment and skills, as measured in the OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), are high in Sweden. They are not perfect substitutes, but both are to some degree necessary for successfully integrating in the Swedish labour market. This paper describes the distribution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399531
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The economic consequences of an ageing population in Slovenia
Walkenhorst, Peter; Sila, Urban - 2015
necessitates adjustments in labour markets. Policy makers will thus need to act more strongly than in the past to rein in ageing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399558
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Correspondence testing studies : what can we learn about discrimination in hiring?
Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2014
Anti-discrimination policies play an important role in public discussions. However, identifying discriminatory practices in the labor market is not an easy task. Correspondence testing provides a credible way to reveal discrimination in hiring and provide hard facts for policies. The method...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417387
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Fertility postponement and labor market outcomes : postponed childbearing increases women's labor market attachement but may reduce overall fertility
Bratti, Massimiliano - 2015
The rise in the average age of women bearing their first child is a well-established demographic trend in recent decades. Postponed childbearing can have important consequences for the mother and, at a macro level, for the country as a whole. Research has focused on the effect postponing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429465
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Fat spouses and hours of work: are body and Pareto weights correlated?
Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 1 (2012), pp. 1-21
We explore the relationship between relative physical attractiveness in the household and the hours worked by married men and women. Using PSID data, we find that husbands who are thinner relative to their wives work fewer hours, while wives who are heavier relative to their husbands work more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009725327