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Implications of labor supply specifications in CGE models : a demonstration for employment of Palestinian labor in Israel and its impact on the West Bank economy

Agbahey, Johanes; Siddig, Khalid Hassan Ali; Grethe, Harald - 2020

Results of general equilibrium models are sensitive to model parameterization and specification. The role of macroeconomic closures and the effect of trade elasticities are documented in the literature, but there is no systematic analysis of the implications of different labor supply...

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The macroeconomic effects of a carbon tax to meet the U.S. Paris Agreement target: the role of firm creation and technology adoption

Finkelstein Shapiro, Alan; Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2021

externalities and equilibrium unemployment. Our model incorporates endogenous labor force participation and two margins of … consumption and output; a marginal increase in the unemployment and labor force participation rates; and an expansion in the … accompanied by gradual gains in output and consumption and a negligible expansion in unemployment. Critically, abstracting from …

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The effect of increasing the state pension age to 66 on labour market activity

Cribb, Jonathan; Emmerson, Carl; O’Brien, Laurence - 2022

We study the effect of an increase in the UK state pension age from 65 to 66, a high level internationally, on labour market activity. Despite there being limited financial incentives to retire at the state pension age, we find large effects: the employment rate of 65-year-olds increased by 7.4...

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A skill-specific dynamic labour supply and labour demand framework : a scenario analysis for the Western Balkan countries to 2030

Leitner, Sandra M. - 2021

This paper pursues a scenario analysis to shed light on past and potential future labour supply and labour demand dynamics of different skill groups in the six Western Balkan countries (WB6). It differentiates between four educational levels (low, medium-general, medium-VET, and high) and looks...

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Patterns, trends and policy implications of private spending on skills development in Mexico and the United States

Székely, Miguel; Mendoza, Pamela - 2017

This paper explores families' investment in skills development through education in a high-inequality, low-education quality country such as Mexico, comparing it to a lower-inequality, higher-quality education country such as the United States. The paper uses a series of high-quality Household...

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Venezuelan migration in Peru : short-term adjustments in the labor market

Morales, Fernando; Pierola, Martha Denisse - 2020

The Venezuelan migration to Peru has been growing at fast speed since 2016 reaching a peak in 2018. Using a panel that allows us to control for individual effects, we study the heterogeneous short-term responses to the inflow of Venezuelan migrants in terms of employment, informality and...

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Working less to take care of parents? : labor market effects of family long-term care in Latin America

Stampini, Marco; Oliveri, María Laura; Ibarrarán, Pablo; … - 2020

We use data from time-use surveys and the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS) to analyze the relationship between the need to provide family long-term care (LTC) and womens labor supply in four Latin American countries. Descriptive analysis of time-use survey data from Chile, Colombia, Costa...

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Dependence or constraints? : labor supply responses from a cash transfer program

Vera Cossío, Diego Alejandro - 2019

Decreases in labor supply among cash-transfer recipients are often cited as potential drawbacks of social-assistance programs. However, cash transfers can also increase employment. Using variation across cohorts and over time in the eligibility criteria of a nationwide conditional cash-transfer...

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The effect of pension wealth on employment

Becker, Sebastian; Buslei, Hermann; Geyer, Johannes; … - 2023

This study provides novel evidence about the pension wealth elasticity of employment. For the identification we exploit reform-induced variation of pension wealth that is related to the number of children but which does not affect the implicit tax rate of employment. We use a...

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The wage-productivity gap revisited : is the labour share neutral to employment?

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2010

This paper challenges the prevailing view of the neutrality of the labour income share to labour demand, and investigates its impact on the evolution of employment. Whilst maintaining the assumption of a unitary long-run elasticity of wages with respect to productivity, we demonstrate that...

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