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A Structure Analysis of the Correlated Random Coefficient Wage Regression Model

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We estimate a finite mixture dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the log wage regression function is set in a random coefficient framework. The model allows for absolute and comparative advantages in the labour market and assumes that the population is composed of eight...

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Household Labour Supply and Welfare Participation in Sweden

Flood, Lennart; Hansen, Jörgen; Wahlberg, Roger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

In this Paper, we formulate and estimate a structural, static model of household labour supply and multiple welfare programme participation. Given the complicated nature of both the income tax schedule and the benefit rules for different welfare programmes, we use unique access to a very...

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Earnings Dispersion, Risk Aversion and Education

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We estimate a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the degree of risk aversion can be inferred from schooling decisions. In our model, individuals are heterogeneous with respect to school and market abilities but homogeneous with respect to the degree of risk aversion. We...

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Poverty Persistence in Sweden

Hansen, Jörgen; Wahlberg, Roger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper analyses the persistence of poverty in Sweden using a hazard rate model based on multiple spells. The model … income obtained from individual tax files. Poverty is defined using information on annual minimum needs standards determined … by the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare. The data indicates that poverty rates are highest for immigrants …

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Vanishing Third World Emigrants?

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

poverty trap, the size of the cohort at risk, and migrant stock dynamics. It then projects the life cycle up to 2024. The …

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What Fundamentals Drive World Migration?

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

drawn from more than a century of world migration experience? How do inequality and poverty influence world migration? Is it …

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Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Policy in Europe

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

The number of refugees worldwide is now 12 million, up from 3 million in the early 1970s. And the number seeking asylum in the developed world increased tenfold, from about 50,000 per annum to half a million over the same period. Governments and international agencies have grappled with the twin...

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Demographic Dividends Revisited

Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper revisits demographic dividend issues after almost two decades of debate. In 1998, David Bloom and Jeffrey Williamson used a convergence model to estimate the impact of demographic-transition-driven age structure effects and calculated what the literature has come to call the...

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What Determines Immigrations' Impact? Comparing Two Global Centuries

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper asks whether history can shed light on the modern debate about immigration's labour market impact in high wage economies. It examines the relationship between migration and capital flows in the age of mass migration before 1914, the so-called first global century. It then assesses the...

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