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welfare programmes, we use unique access to a very detailed micro-simulation model to generate accurate budget sets for each …In this Paper, we formulate and estimate a structural, static model of household labour supply and multiple welfare … work-welfare combination. Moreover, when determining the budget sets, we use extraordinary high-quality data on earnings …
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dependence. In addition, the labour force status of the household head has different effects for native and immigrant welfare …
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We show that direct investments by consumers without the use of financial intermediaries can efficiently allocate financial capital to firms seeking funding for production of a novel consumption good. In our setting, consumers are also investors, and their privately known consumption preferences...
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The literature has shown that the implied welfare gains from international financial integration are very small. We … revisit the existing findings and document that welfare gains can be substantial if capital goods are not perfect substitutes … welfare gains from financial integration are equivalent to a 9% increase in consumption for the median developing country, and …
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inefficiency. We analyze the effects of regulatory intervention via educating naive consumers on equilibrium prices and welfare … increase welfare; however, it may also decrease welfare if education is insufficient to alter the equilibrium information and …
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After some decades of relative oblivion, the interest in the optimality properties of monopolistic competition has recently re-emerged due to the availability of an appropriate and parsimonious framework to deal with firm heterogeneity. Within this framework we show that non-separable utility,...
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This paper evaluates the global welfare impact of observed levels of migration using a quantitative multi-sector model … difference, international trade, remittances, and a heterogeneous workforce. We compare welfare under the observed levels of … the short run the impact of migration on average welfare in these countries is close to zero, while the skilled and …
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The paper proposes a general model that will encompass trade and social benefits of a common language, a preference for a variety of languages, the fundamental role of translators, an emotional attachment to maternal language, and the threat that globalization poses to the vast majority of...
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accession. We also estimate a welfare gain of removing this TPU for U.S. consumers and find it is of similar magnitude to the U …
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important topic of welfare, the cultural market is the single one where it is arguable that the progress of English has gone too …
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