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inequality, though they have important effects on sector of activity. Inheritance of non-land assets and the education and … than property inheritance. Significant gender inequality in consumption is evident, though it is almost entirely explicable … in terms of factors such as education and (non-land) inheritance. There are a number of other pronounced gender …
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There is a capital taxation puzzle in most developed countries. Since the 1960s, revenues from wealth transfer taxation have been especially low and decreasing as a percentage of GDP, even to the extent of disappearing in quite a number of cases; by contrast, lifetime wealth or capital taxation...
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This paper attempts to document and account for the long run evolution of inheritance. We find that in a country like … France the annual flow of inheritance was about 20%-25% of national income between 1820 and 1910, down to less than 5% in … 1950, and back up to about 15% by 2010. A simple theoretical model of wealth accumulation, growth and inheritance can fully …
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In urban China, urban resident annual earnings are 1.3 times larger than long term rural migrant earnings as observed in a nationally representative sample in 2002. Using microsimulation, we decompose this difference into four sources, with particular attention to path dependence and statistical...
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La littérature économique récente sur l'impact de la migration sur le pays d'origine n'a pas réussi à analyser l …'effet de la migration sur le chômage et le taux de salaire surtout dans les zones urbaines. A l'aide d'un MEGC détaillé …'émigration marocaine vers l'Union Européenne, l'immigration subsaharienne vers le Maroc et la migration rural-urbain, l'impact sur le taux …
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migration data for five European countries over the 1980s and 1990s to perform quasi-structural estimations of a new economic …
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impact of immigration restrictive policies and permanent migration on the future evolution of remittances. Then I ask what …
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Recently, much research interest is directed towards the impact of migration on the sending country. However, we think … that this literature does not successfully analyse the effects of migration on unemployment and wage rates especially in … urban areas. It studies the effect of one king of migration flow, mainly international migration, on labour market in the …
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We study in this paper the interactions between migration rates and the level of labour standards. We use an augmented … is that the differential of working conditions may be a complementary determinant of migration. In a first time, we test … use a bilateral migration database built by Marfouk and Docquier (2004) in order to test the influence of labour standards …
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We study in this paper the interactions between migration rates and the level of labour standards. We use an augmentee … is that the differential of working conditions may be a complementary determinant of migration. In a first time, we test … use a bilateral migration database built by Marfouk and Docquier (2004) in order to test the influence of labour standards …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738548