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A Survey of the Role of Fiscal Policy in Addressing Income Inequality, Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Growth
Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Jungsuk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
A growing concern on widening income gap between the rich and the poor, the policy mismatch in tackling the relative poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient growth. Developed countries have experienced the...
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Concept and Unintended Consequences of Weather Index Insurance: The Case of Mexico
Fuchs, Alan; Wolff, Hendrik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Recently, Weather Index Insurance (WII) has received considerable attention as a tool to insure farmers against weather related risks, particularly in developing countries. Donor organizations, local governments, insurance companies, development economists as well as agricultural economists are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009403387
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Time to Eat: Household Production under Increasing Income Inequality
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Eating requires the food materials that make up meals and also time devoted to buying food, preparing meals and eating them, and cleaning up afterwards. Using time-diary and expenditure data for the U.S. for 1985 and 2003, I examine how income and time prices affect time and goods inputs into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700981
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Socio-Economic Status, Health Shocks, Life Satisfaction and Mortality: Evidence from an Increasing Mixed Proportional Hazard Model
Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John; Shields, Michael A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
paper we develop a new duration model that allows for unobserved persistent individual-specific health shocks and provides … leads to a 12% decline in the probability of death. We find a large role for unobserved health shocks, with 5-years of … shocks explaining the same amount of the variation in length of life as all the other observed individual and socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763630
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Food Prices and Body Fatness among Youths
Grossman, Michael; Tekin, Erdal; Wada, Roy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In this paper, we examine the effect of food prices on clinical measures of obesity, including body mass index (BMI) and percentage body fat (PBF) measures derived from bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) and dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA), among youths ages 12 through 18. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010814472
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Globalization and Wage Convergence: Mexico and the United States
Gandolfi, Davide; Halliday, Timothy J.; Robertson, Raymond - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
propensities although this was, in part, due to large macroeconomic shocks. On the other hand, we do find some evidence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884169
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Migration as an Adjustment Mechanism in the Crisis? A Comparison of Europe and the United States
Jauer, Julia; Liebig, Thomas; Martin, John P.; Puhani, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
the United States, and their association with asymmetric labour market shocks. We find that recent migration flows have … to labour market shocks. Our estimates suggest that, if all measured population changes in Europe were due to migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884205
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The Political Economy of Labor Market Regulation with R&D
Palokangas, Tapio K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In this paper, I study the political rationale for labor market regulation. Oligopolists employ raw labor and human capital (i.e. key workers) for production and R&D. There are many jurisdictions, in each of which a self-interested policy maker can regulate/deregulate the local labor market. I...
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Ethnic Diversity and Firms' Export Behavior
Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Pozzoli, Dario; Sala, Davide - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Selling internationally requires products that resonate with an international customer base and therefore an approach to markets that is in keeping with diverse cultures (i.e., relational capital). As emphasized by international business studies, this relational capital is in turn related to the...
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The Mobility Challenge for Growth and Integration in Europe
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Open and flexible labor markets foster growth, development and integration in Europe. The single European labor market is still a vision, however, whereas the core challenge is a lack of sufficient mobility. The presentation discusses the value of labor mobility for economic prosperity and its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884383