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population, and incentives for investment in human capital combine to predict the decline of the West. In particular, indigenous … redistribution, do not compete with immigrants in the labor market, and do not compete with immigrants for publicly financed income … 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 … time to different activities. In order to do so, we empirically estimate a collective household labor supply model. The … children and on the hourly wage rates of both partners. (5) The labor supply curve is forward bending for both male and female …
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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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both spouses maximize a household utility function. We assume that paid labor and housework are the endogenous choice … sense that the woman is more oriented on household production, while the man is oriented on paid labor. It is often believed … and women replace housework hours by paid labor if their hourly wage rate increases but do the opposite when the hourly …
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Eric Jones has found that excessive taxes were detrimental for pre-modern China’s economic growth whereas moderate taxes were conducive for Europe’s economic growth. This paper provides a political-economic answer to the question why these two tax systems came about. Taxation is only...
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This paper investigates the dynamics of wage adjustment to an exogenous increase in labor supply by exploiting the …
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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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