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Quality of Life in a Dynamic Spatial Model

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Bald, Fabian; Roth, Duncan; … - 2021

We develop a dynamic spatial model in which heterogeneous workers are imperfectly mobile and forward-looking and yet all structural fundamentals can be inverted without assuming that the economy is in a stationary spatial equilibrium. Exploiting this novel feature of the model, we show that the...

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Why are Average Hours Worked Lower in Richer Countries?

Bick, Alexander - 2020

Why are average hours worked per adult lower in rich countries than in poor countries? We consider two natural explanations: income effects in preferences, in which leisure becomes more valuable when income rises, and distortionary tax systems, which are more prevalent in richer countries. To...

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Different No More : Country Spreads in Advanced and Emerging Economies

Born, Benjamin - 2020

Interest-rate spreads fluctuate widely across time and countries. We characterize their behavior using some 3,200 quarterly observations for 21 advanced and 17 emerging economies since the early 1990s. Before the financial crisis, spreads are 10 times more volatile in emerging economies than in...

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The Labor Market Integration of Refugee Migrants in High-Income Countries

Brell, Courtney - 2020

We provide an overview of the integration of refugees into the labor markets of a number of high-income countries. Discussing the ways in which refugees and economic migrants are differently selected and so might be expected to perform differently in a host country's labor market, we examine...

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Does Household Borrowing Reduce the Trade Balance? Evidence from Developing and Developed Countries

Xu, Can; Jacobs, Jan; de Haan, Jakob - 2021

We examine the dynamic impact of household borrowing on the trade balance using data from 33 developing countries and 36 developed countries over the 1980-2017 period. Our findings suggest that the impact of household borrowing on the trade balance is by and large negative, both in the short and...

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Minimum Wage and Collective Bargaining Reforms : A Narrative Database for Advance Economies

Afonso, António; Jalles, João Tovar; Venter, Zoe - 2022

This paper presents and describes a new database of major minimum wage and collective bargaining reforms covering 26 advanced economies over the period 1970-2020. The main advantage of this dataset is the precise identification of the nature and date of major reforms, which is valuable in many...

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The Asymmetric Impact of Economic Policy and Oil Price Uncertainty on Inflation : Evidence from Developed and Emerging Economies

Anderl, Christina; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2023

This paper examines the asymmetric impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and oil price uncertainty (OPU) on inflation by using a Nonlinear ARDL (NARDL) model, which is compared to a benchmark linear ARDL one. Using monthly data from the 1990s until August 2022 for a number of developed and...

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Democracy, inequality and the environment when citizens can mitigate privately or act collectively

Bernard, Sophie; Hotte, Louis; Winer, Stanley L. - 2010

either mitigate the health consequences of domestic pollution privately or reduce pollution collectively through public … ordinary citizens. The recognition that the health consequences of pollution can be dealt with privately at a cost adds an … private mitigation is feasible, inequality of incomes leads to an unequal distribution of the health burden of pollution (in …

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Pricing Pollution

Mideksa, Torben K. - 2020

its intensity (i.e., the tax rate or the quota level) to price pollution. When countries price pollution non …

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Reversible Environmental Catastrophes with Disconnected Generations

Heijdra, Ben J. - 2019

We study environmental policy in an economy-ecology model featuring multiple deterministic stable steady-state ecological equilibria. The economy-ecology does not settle in either of the deterministic steady states as the environmental system is hit by random shocks. Individual live for two...

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