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Who Moves and For How Long: Determinants of Different Forms of Migration
Borodak, Daniela; Piracha, Matloob - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper analyses the determinants and correlates of different forms of migration, including circular, temporary and permanent. Using Moldovan data we show that age, education, number of children in a household and social as well as economic development in the region of origin play a crucial...
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Remittances and Migration Intentions of the Left-Behind
Piracha, Matloob; Saraogi, Amrita - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Moldova and employing simultaneous equations model we show that there exists a dual causality between receipt of remittances …
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Occupational Choice of Return Migrants in Moldova
Borodak, Daniela; Piracha, Matloob - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
in Moldova, we find that those who stayed illegally in the host country tend to go in wage employment on return to the …
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Motivations for Remittances: Evidence from Moldova
Piracha, Matloob; Saraogi, Amrita - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper explores the factors that account for the receipt of remittances across households in Moldova who have … behaviour in Moldova. Drawing from these estimates, we conclude that altruism and investment (proxied by the level of economic … development at the regional level) are the two main motives behind remittance flows to Moldova. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836676
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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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Man-cessions, Fiscal Policy, and the Gender Composition of Employment
Bredemeier, Christian; Juessen, Falko; Winkler, Roland - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
lead to man-cessions, i.e. employment falls and more strongly so for men. By contrast, an expansionary fiscal shock …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011214037
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Interactions between Private and Public Sector Wages
Afonso, António; Gomes, Pedro Maia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We examine the interactions between public and private sector wages per employee in OECD countries. The growth of public sector wages and of public sector employment positively affects the growth of private sector wages. Moreover, total factor productivity, the unemployment rate and the degree...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727773
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Where Has All the Money Gone? Foreign Aid and the Quest for Growth
Chatterjee, Santanu; Giuliano, Paola; Kaya, Ilker - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper examines fungibility as a possible explanation for the "missing link" between foreign aid and economic growth. The composition of aid plays a crucial role in determining the composition of government spending and, consequently, the magnitude of fungibility and its impact on growth....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703140
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Is the Deficit under Control?A Generational Accounting Perspective on Fiscal Policy and Labour Market Trends in Spain
Bonin, Holger; Abio, Gemma; Berenguer, Eduardo; Gil, Joan; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
According to the 2001 Spanish budgetary previsions, the government deficit is about to disappear. We analyse this matter within a generational accounting framework. Accounting for the recent expansive phase of the economic cycle, we find that current fiscal policy is also intertemporally...
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Welfare Analysis in a Schumpeterian Growth Model with Capital
Hagedorn, Marcus; Kaul, Ashok; Reinthaler, Volker - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
In this note we compare the laissez-faire steady-state solution in the Howitt and Aghion (1998) model to the social optimum. The analysis offers several new insights in comparison to the welfare analysis in Aghion and Howitt (1992). We find various new distortions between private and optimal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703487