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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 …

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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. …

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Partial Insurance and Investments in Children

Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

This paper studies the impact of permanent and transitory shocks to income on parental investments in children. We use panel data on family income, and an index of investments in children in time and goods, from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Consistent with the...

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The Good, the Bad, and the Different: Can Gender Quotas Raise the Quality of Politicians?

Júlio, Paulo Fernando; Tavares, José - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This paper models, for the first time, the relationship between gender quotas and the quality of elected public officials. In our economy, females and males can be either high or low-skill. The number of high-skill individuals elected for public office determines the overall quality of...

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Vanishing Third World Emigrants?

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper documents a stylized fact not well appreciated in the literature. The Third World has been undergoing an emigration life cycle since the 1960s, and, except for Africa, emigration rates have been level or even declining since a peak in the late 1980s the early 1990s. The current...

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Birth Order Matters: The Effect of Family Size and Birth Order on Educational Attainment

Booth, Alison L; Kee, Hiau Joo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

We use unique retrospective family background data from the 2003 wave of the British Household Panel Survey to explore the degree to which family size and birth order affect a child’s subsequent educational attainment. Theory suggests a trade off between child quantity and ‘quality’....

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Intergenerational Mobility and the Informative Content of Surnames

Güell, Maia; Mora, José V Rodríguez; Telmer, Chris - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We propose a new methodology for measuring intergenerational mobility in economic wellbeing. Our method is based on the joint distribution of surnames and economic outcomes. It circumvents the need for intergenerational panel data, a long-standing stumbling block for understanding mobility. A...

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Happiness Inequality in the United States

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper examines how the level and dispersion of self-reported happiness has evolved over the period 1972-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s. There have been large changes in the level of happiness...

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Job Insecurity and Youth Emancipation: A Theoretical Approach

Becker, Sascha O.; Bentolila, Samuel; Fernandes, Ana; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

In this paper, we propose a theoretical model to study the effect of income insecurity of parents and offspring on the child's residential choice. Parents are partially altruistic toward their children and will provide financial help to an independent child when her income is low relative to the...

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Women Prefer Larger Governments: Growth, Structural Transformation and Government Size

Cavalcanti, Tiago; Tavares, José - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

The increase in income per capita is accompanied, in virtually all countries, by two changes in the structure of the economy, namely an increase in the share of government spending in GDP and an increase in female labour force participation. This paper suggests that these two changes are...

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