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North-South Technology Diffusion, Regional Integration, and the Dynamics of the "Natural Trading Partners" Hypothesis

Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Based on static analysis, a number of studies argue that forming a RTA is more likely to raise welfare if member countries are "natural trading partners," while other studies claim the opposite. This paper considers the argument from a dynamic viewpoint by examining the impact of trade with...

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On the Production of Victory: Empirical Determinants of Battlefield Success in Modern War

Rotte, Ralph; Schmidt, Christoph M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Using a data set of historical battles from 1600 to 1973, this paper analyzes the empirical determinants of tactical success in modern war. Based on a reduced form approach we consider key elements of military theory as factors in the production of combat success, formalized in a military...

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Skill Upgrading and Rigid Relative Wages: The Case of Danish Manufacturing

Skaksen, Jan Rose; Sørensen, Anders - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Relative wages have been remarkably rigid for the last two decades in Danish manufacturing despite large shifts in relative employment from unskilled labor towards skilled and educated labor. Assuming capital-skill complementarity and fixed relative wages as a consequence of labor market...

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Can Taxes Stabilize the Economy in the Presence of Consumption Externalities?

Lloyd-Braga, Teresa; Modesto, Leonor - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Considering a finance constrained economy, we discuss the stabilization role of variable labour and capital income taxes under a balanced-budget rule in the presence of consumption externalities of the "keeping up with the Joneses" type. We find that sufficiently procyclical labor and/or capital...

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Market Distortions and Local Indeterminacy: A General Approach

Lloyd-Braga, Teresa; Modesto, Leonor; Seegmuller, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We provide a methodology to study the role of market distortions on the emergence of indeterminacy and bifurcations … classes of distortions responsible for indeterminacy. Our methodology consists in introducing general specifications for the … distortions influence the range of values for the elasticity of inputs substitution under which local indeterminacy and …

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Assessing the Impact of the Maternity Capital Policy in Russia Using a Dynamic Model of Fertility and Employment

Slonimczyk, Fabian; Yurko, Anna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

With declining population and fertility rates below replacement levels, Russia is currently facing a demographic crisis. Starting in 2007, the federal government has pursued an ambitious pro-natalist policy. Women who give birth to at least two children are entitled to "maternity capital"...

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Does It Pay for Women to Volunteer?

Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper estimates the economic and non-economic returns to volunteering for prime-aged women. A woman's decision to engage in unpaid work, and to marry and have children, is formulated as a forward-looking discrete choice dynamic programming problem. Simulated maximum likelihood estimates of...

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Employment Effects of Welfare Reforms: Evidence from a Dynamic Structural Life-Cycle Model

Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria L.; Uhlendorff, Arne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

In this paper we develop a dynamic structural life-cycle model of labor supply behavior which fully accounts for the effect of income tax and transfers on labor supply incentives. Additionally, the model recognizes the demand side driven rationing risk that might prevent individuals from...

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An Adverse Selection Model of Optimal Unemployment Insurance

Hagedorn, Marcus; Kaul, Ashok; Mennel, Tim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

We derive the shape of optimal unemployment insurance (UI) contracts when agents can exert search effort but face different search costs and have private information about their type. We derive a recursive solution of our dynamic adverse selection problem with repeated moral hazard. Conditions...

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On the Dynamics of Interstate Migration: Migration Costs and Self-Selection

Bayer, Christian; Juessen, Falko - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper develops a tractable dynamic microeconomic model of migration decisions that is aggregated to describe the behavior of interregional migration. Our structural approach allows us to deal with dynamic self-selection problems that arise from the endogeneity of location choice and the...

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