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Taste Heterogeneity, Labour Mobility and Economic Geography
Tabuchi, Takatoshi; Thisse, Jacques-François - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
This Paper investigates the impact of the heterogeneity of the labour force on the spatial distribution of activities. This goal is achieved by applying the tools of discrete choice theory to an economic geography model. We show that taste heterogeneity acts as a strong dispersion force. We also...
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Does Fertility Respond to Financial Incentives?
Laroque, Guy; Salanié, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household level. We put forward an identification strategy that relies on the fact that variation of wages induces variation in benefits and tax credits among 'comparable' households. We...
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The Ethical Foundations of Population Policies
Dasgupta, Partha - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1984
of future population size. The essay begins with a summary of welfare economic theory as it pertains to situations where … population size is not subject to choice, and notes that a symmetry (or anonymity) axiom on social welfare functions has almost … invariably been invoked in the theory. It then summarizes optimum population theory and emphasizes that the existing theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666921
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Size Really Doesn't Matter: In Search of a National Scale Effect
Rose, Andrew K - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
link the population of a country to a host of economic and social phenomena. Using both graphical and statistical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005498014
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New Evidence on the Fertility Transition in Ireland 1880-1911
O'Gráda, Cormac - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1991
Recent analyses of Ireland's marital fertility transition based on the Princeton Ig and the Stanford CPA measures are reassessed. Revised county estimates of Ig are subjected to regression analysis, and added insight into CPA is offered by comparing Ireland with Scotland and applying the measure...
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Taxation and the International Mobility of Inventors
Akcigit, Ufuk; Baslandze, Salomé; Stantcheva, Stefanie - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
This paper studies the effect of top tax rates on inventors' mobility since 1977. We put special emphasis on "superstar" inventors, those with the most and most valuable patents. We use panel data on inventors from the United States and European Patent Offices to track inventors' locations over...
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The Geography of Development: Evaluating Migration Restrictions and Coastal Flooding
Desmet, Klaus; Nagy, David Krisztián; Rossi-Hansberg, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
different levels of migration frictions. We bring the model to the data for the whole world economy at a 1º times 1º geographic … resolution. We then use the model to quantify the gains from relaxing migration restrictions as well as to describe the evolution … of the distribution of economic activity in the different migration scenarios. Our results indicate that fully …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252617
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Labour Mobility and German Integration: Some Vignettes
Burda, Michael C; Wyplosz, Charles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1991
amphasis of the rile of migration and labor mobility in this process. The effects of congestion costs, rigid wages, human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662319
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Redistribution Policy: A European Model
Casella, Alessandra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
regional allocation requires both national and international transfers. If migration is fully free across all borders, then …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662349
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Jewish Occupational Selection: Education, Restrictions or Minorities?
Botticini, Maristella; Eckstein, Zvi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
This Paper documents the major features of Jewish economic history in the first millennium to explain the distinctive occupational selection of the Jewish people into urban, skilled occupations. We show that many Jews entered urban occupations in the eighth-ninth centuries in the Muslim Empire...
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