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Existence and stability of overconsumption equilibria

Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2009

Growth models with endogenous mortality assume generally that life expectancy is increasing with output per capita, and, thus, with individual consumption, whatever the consumption level is. However, empirical evidence on the effect of overconsumption and obesity on mortality tends to question...

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Asymptotic age structures and intergenerational trade

Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2009

While demographers Lotka (1939) and Lopez (1961) proposed conditions on (exogenous) fertility and mortality laws under which populations with distinct initial age structures exhibit the same asymptotic age structure, this paper re-examines the issues of age structure stabilization and...

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Unequal longevities and lifestyles transmission

Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2008

Whereas studies on the optimal taxation under endogenous longevity assume a fixed heterogeneity of lifestyles, this paper considers the optimal tax policy in an economy where unequal longevities are the unintended outcome of differences in lifestyles, and where lifestyles are transmitted across...

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Optimal Lifecycle Fertility in a Barro Becker Economy

Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2012

Parenthood postponement is a key demographic trend of the last three decades. In order to rationalize that stylized fact, we extend the canonical model by Barro and Becker (1989) to include two - instead of one reproduction periods. We examine how the cost structure of early and late children in...

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Education, Life Expectancy and Family Bargaining: The Ben-Porath Effect Revisited

Leker, Laura; Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2012

Following Ben-Porath (1967), the influence of life expectancy on education has attracted much attention. Whereas existing growth models rely on an education decision made either by the child or by his parent, we revisit the Ben-Porath effect when the education is the outcome of a bargaining...

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Integration, real exchange rate and growth

Gente, Karine; Nourry, Carine - HAL - 2011

This paper deals with the relationship between real exchange rate and growth in the process of economic integration. Using a 2x2x2 model of overlapping generations, we show that growth depends on the real exchange rate (RER) through human capital accu- mulation. Integration leads to convergence...

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Home Sweet Home? Macroeconomic Conditions in Home Countries and the Well-Being of Migrants

Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - HAL - 2014

-being responds negatively (positively) to an increase in the GDP (unemployment rate) of their home country. That is, we originally …

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The Local Determinants of Victimization

Hémet, Camille - HAL - 2013

neighborhood characteristics explain victimization better than individual characteristics. Second, I find that local unemployment … the precise localization of the data to adopt a spatial approach, comparing the effect of unemployment rate in the …

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Unemployment and finance: how do financial and labour market factors interact?

Gatti, Donatella; Vaubourg, Anne-Gaël - HAL - 2009

determine unemployment. We show that the impact of financial variables depends strongly on the labour market context. Increased … market capitalization as well as decreased banking concentration reduce unemployment if the level of labour market regulation … intermediated credit worsens unemployment when the labour market is weakly regulated and coordinated, whereas it reduces …

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The political economy of job protection and income redistribution

Amable, Bruno; Gatti, Donatella - HAL - 2005

This paper presents a model allowing to analyze voting, welfare institutions and economic performance. We consider a political economy framework with three classes of agents: entrepreneurs, employed workers and unemployed workers. Agents vote on alternative institutional options: the degree of...

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