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The Unemployment Trap Meets the Age-Earning Profile.
Chapman, Bruce; Jordan, James; Olivier, Ken; Quiggin, John - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2000
The relative costs of taking employment or receiving welfare are usually understood through comparisons of a person’s social security entitlements and their wage alternative, known as replacement rates. In some situations it appears that the additional income from working is negligible, and...
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Active Labour Market Policy Effects for Women in Europe - A Survey
Bergemann, Annette; den Berg, Gerard J van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labour market policies on individual labour market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance,...
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The Retirement Expectations of Middle-Aged Individuals
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Stillman, Steve - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006
We use the first three waves of the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey to examine the retirement plans of middle-aged workers (aged 45-55). Our results indicate that approximately two-thirds of men and more then half of women appear to be making standard retirement...
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Forced to be Rich? Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Britain
Devereux, Paul J.; Hart, Robert A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
Do students benefit from compulsory schooling? Researchers using changes in compulsory schooling laws as instruments have typically estimated very high returns to additional schooling that are greater than the corresponding OLS estimates and concluded that the group of individuals who are...
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Evidence and Perceptions of Inequality in Australia
Chesters, Jenny; Western, John - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2010
Following the increasing impact of globalising economic forces world wide Australia, like many other liberal democracies, moved to adopt neoliberal economic policies with an emphasis on increasing deregulation of economic markets. The economic changes instituted since the 1980s have...
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Rotten Kids with Bad Intentions
Netzer, Nick; Schmutzler, Armin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
We examine a "Rotten Kid" model (Becker 1974) where a player with social preferences interacts with an egoistic player. We assume that social preferences are intention-based rather than outcome-based. In a very general multi-stage setting we show that any equilibrium must involve mutually unkind...
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Real Wage Inequality
Moretti, Enrico - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
is typically measured using nominal wages. I show that from 1980 to 2000, college graduates have increasingly … deflate nominal wages using a new CPI that allows for changes in the cost of housing to vary across metropolitan areas and … use real wages. To understand the implications of this finding for changes in well-being inequality I use a simple general …
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Nether Lands: Evidence on the price and perception of rare flood disasters
Bosker, Maarten; Garretsen, Harry; Marlet, Gerard; van … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
The Netherlands is one of the most flood prone countries in the world. It also has the best flood defenses in the world that are built to make floods an extremely rare event. This paper uses the unique Dutch setting to provide evidence on the price and perception of rare environmental disasters....
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Buying First or Selling First in Housing Markets
Moen, Espen R; Nenov, Plamen T.; Sniekers, Florian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
Housing transactions by owner-occupiers take two steps, purchase of a new property and sale of the old housing unit. This paper shows how the transaction sequence decision of owner-occupiers depends on, and in turn, affects housing market conditions in an equilibrium search-and-matching model of...
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Moving House
Ngai, Liwa Rachel; Sheedy, Kevin D. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
Using data on house sales and inventories of unsold houses, this paper shows that changes in sales volume are largely explained by changes in the frequency at which houses are put up for sale rather than changes in the length of time taken to sell them. Thus the decision to move house is key to...
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