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two tax systems came about. Taxation is only feasible when men and land can be linked as a single bundle. Taxation of land … is not feasible without men, and taxation of men is not feasible without land. A tax maximizing bureaucrat has to combine … the two variables in such a way that tax revenues are maximized given the constraints of land and men in his country …
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population, and incentives for investment in human capital combine to predict the decline of the West. In particular, indigenous … transfers. For the economy at large, high-fertility unskilled immigrants and a low-fertility indigenous population result in …
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Evaluation of climate policies and other issues requires a variable population setting where population is endogenously … conditions and principles used to evaluate variable population criteria. In particular, it avoids the repugnant conclusion even …
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Although the number of immigrant households in the Netherlands is substantial, the labor supply choices of this group are usually neglected in empirical studies because these households are usually under-sampled. We use a stratified sample of Turkish, Surinamese/Antillean and Dutch households...
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We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to native-founded companies. Our work quantifies immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety of fields and using multiple definitions. While significant...
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using multiple integrated assessment models. The study looks at model and parametric uncertainties for population, total …
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We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search frictions, wage bargaining, and a redistributive welfare state. Our quantitative analysis suggests that, in all 20 countries studied, immigration attenuates the effects of...
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We estimate a collective time allocation model, where Dutch, Surinamese/Antillean and Turkish households behave as if both spouses maximize a household utility function. We assume that paid labor and housework are the endogenous choice variables and furthermore consider household production....
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This paper investigates the dynamics of wage adjustment to an exogenous increase in labor supply by exploiting the sudden and unexpected inflow of repatriates to France created by the independence of Algeria in 1962. I track the impact of this particular supply shift on the average wage of...
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We leverage a large-scale incentivized survey eliciting behaviors from (almost) an entire university student population …, a representative sample of the U.S. population, and Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to address concerns about the … external validity of experiments with student participants. Behavior in the student population offers bounds on behaviors in …
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