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Choosing institutional over economic integration : are there growth effects?

Campos, Nauro; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Moretti, Luigi - 2020

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Institutional integration and productivity growth : evidence from the 1995 enlargement of the European Union

Campos, Nauro; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Franceschi, Emanuele - 2021

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Immigration, unemployment and wages : new causality evidence from the United Kingdom

Tunali, Çiğdem Börke; Fidrmuc, Jan; Campos, Nauro - 2017 - This version: April 4, 2017

The vast literature on the effects of immigration on wages and employment is plagued by likely endogeneity and aggregation biases. Ours is among the first papers to address both of these issues by means of causality analysis and by accounting for human capital endowments. Our analysis confirms...

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Okun in the euro : new evidence from structural Okun law’s estimates for the euro area, 1979-2019

Campos, Nauro; Macchiarelli, Corrado; Mitropoulos, Fotios - 2024

This paper provides new estimates of Okun’s unemployment-output relationship in euro area countries between 1979 and 2019. We find our structural estimates are stable but substantially lower than the reduced-form estimates that tend to characterise the literature and that the responsiveness of...

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"Investing" in care for old age? : an examination of long-term care expenditure dynamics and its spillovers

Costa-Font, Joan; Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina - 2022

draw from a panel of more than a decade worth of expenditure data from a sample of OECD countries. We use a panel Vector … Auto-regressive (panel-VAR) system that consider the dynamics between the dependent variables. We find that LTC expenditure …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012813827

Do economic recessions "squeeze the middle-class"?

Batinti, Alberto; Costa-Font, Joan - 2017 - This version: September 7th, 2017

Economic downturns give rise to unexpected employment shocks that can reshape the distribution of population income, and hence produce a "middle-class squeeze". However, there is limited empirical evidence testing the latter. This paper aims at testing the "middle-class squeeze" hypothesis...

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Comrades in the family? : Soviet communism and informal family insurance

Costa-Font, Joan; Nicińska, Anna - 2020

We study the effect of exposure to communism (EC), a political-economic regime based on collectivist planning, on preferences for family supports, which we refer to as "informal family insurance". We exploit both cross-country and cohort variation in EC in a large sample of Central and Eastern...

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"Globesity"? : the effects of globalization on obesity and caloric intake

Costa-Font, Joan; Mas, Núria - 2014

This study considers the effects of globalization, in its economic and social dimensions, on obesity and caloric intake … globalization and both obesity and caloric intake. A one standard deviation increase in globalization is associated with a 20 … with an instrument variable strategy, a lagged structure, and corrections for panel standard errors. The primary driver is …

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A 'Health Kuznets' Curve'? : cross-country and longitudinal evidence

Costa-Font, Joan; Hernandez-Quevedo, Cristina; Sato, Azusa - 2013

The distribution of health inequalities appears to exhibit a different pattern when samples of developing countries are examined. One explanation is the existence of a health Kuznets ́curve. This paper sets out as an exploratory analysis to test the latter hypothesis of an inverse U shape...

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Measuring health inequality with categorical data : some regional patterns

Costa-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank A. - 2013

Much of the theoretical literature on inequality assumes that the equalisand is a cardinal variable like income or wealth. However, health status is generally measured as a categorical variable expressing a qualitative order. Traditional solutions involve reclassifying the variable by means of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199448