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immigrants' ethnic persistence and assimilation. The estimated effect of these measures on risk proclivity suggests that … could also help explain differences in economic assimilation of immigrants. …
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probability of expecting economic recovery. The effect of conflict on general welfare however is less robust. …
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This paper shows that the welfare dominance of ad valorem over unit taxes under imperfect competition, extends to the …
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also implies that there may exist a positive bilateral tariff that maximizes national and world welfare. Applying one of … that are heterogeneous across firms, we find that the reciprocal reduction of small tariffs reduces welfare. …
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. Our main result is that network effects create a fundamental conflict between the maximization of social welfare and … welfare is highest in the asymmetric equilibrium. We also show that both consumer surplus and social welfare are higher in any …
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In 1997, the Comisión Reguladora de Energía of Mexico implemented a netback rule for linking the Mexican natural gas price to the Texas price. At the time, the Texas price reflected a reasonably competitive market. Since that time, there have been dramatic increases in the demand for natural...
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outperform unit taxes in terms of welfare for a wide range of imperfect competition settings, including Dixit … industry, less output per firm, less tax revenue, but higher welfare compared to ad valorem taxes. …
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setting the two policy instruments have different welfare effects. For a strong green policy (a severe reduction of the dirty …
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receiving welfare payments was about twice as high as the respective share for the entire population. Poverty head count rates …
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Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socio-economic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper extends the analysis of immigrant housing tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic...
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