Similar Search Results

Labor Market Frictions as a Source of Comparative Advantage, with Implications for Unemployment and Inequality

Helpman, Elhanan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

labor market frictions and worker heterogeneity provides a framework for studying the impact of trade on unemployment and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468664

Labor Market Rigidities, Trade, and Unemployment

Helpman, Elhanan; Itskhoki, Oleg - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

vacancies, firing costs, and unemployment benefits. We study the interaction of labor market rigidities and trade impediments in … shaping welfare, trade flows, productivity, and unemployment. We show that both countries gain from trade but that the … frictions in both countries benefits both of them. The model generates rich patterns of unemployment. In particular, better …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008477175

Foreign Trade and Investment: Firm-Level Perspectives

Helpman, Elhanan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This Economica Coase Lecture reviews research that has revolutionized the field of international trade and foreign direct investment. It explains the motivation behind the development of new analytical frameworks, the nature of these frameworks, and the empirical studies that sprouted from them.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083409

Trade and Labor Market Outcomes

Helpman, Elhanan; Itskhoki, Oleg; Redding, Stephen J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper reviews a new framework for analyzing the interrelationship between inequality, unemployment, labor market …. It implies that the opening of trade may raise inequality and unemployment, but always raises welfare. Unilateral … reductions in labor market frictions increase a country's welfare, can raise or reduce its unemployment rate, yet always hurt the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854515

Effects of Pharmaceutical Promotion: A Review and Assessment

Dave, Dhaval M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This review discusses the role of consumer-directed and physician-directed promotion in the pharmaceutical market, based on the classic conceptual framework of whether such promotion is "persuasive" and/or "informative". Implications for public health and welfare partly depend on whether, and to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950788

Does Medicaid Coverage for Pregnant Women Affect Prenatal Health Behaviors?

Dave, Dhaval M.; Kaestner, Robert; Wehby, George L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the Medicaid expansions of the 1980s and 1990s for pregnant women. Accordingly, we provide the first national study of the effects of Medicaid on health behaviors for pregnant women....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213646

Becoming Oldest-Old: Evidence from Historical U.S. Data

Costa, Dora L.; Lahey, Joanna N. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

We argue that the environment determines life span, using historical data to show that such indicators of environmental insults in early childhood and young adulthood as quarter of birth, residence, occupation, wealth, and the incidence of specific infectious diseases affected older age...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015567

Racial, Ethnic and Gender Differences in Physical Activity

Saffer, Henry; Dave, Dhaval M.; Grossman, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

This study examines racial, ethnic and gender differentials in physical activity. Individuals engage in physical activity during leisure-time and also during in many other activities such as walking to work, home maintenance, shopping and child care. Physical activity also occurs on the job is...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294561

HIV and Fertility Revisited

Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Turan, Belgi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

Young (2005) argues that HIV related population declines reinforced by the fertility response to the epidemic will lead to higher capital-labor ratios and to higher per capita incomes in the affected countries of Africa. Using household level data on fertility from South Africa and relying on...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008635943

AIDS, "Reversal" of the Demographic Transition and Economic Development: Evidence from Africa

Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

Using country- and region-level data, I investigate the effect of HIV/AIDS on fertility in Africa during 1985-2000. Results differ depending on the variation used and the estimation method. Between estimates that exploit cross-sectional variation suggest a positive significant effect of HIV/AIDS...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004991972