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Choosing institutional over economic integration : are there growth effects?

Campos, Nauro; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Moretti, Luigi - 2020

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Institutional integration and productivity growth : evidence from the 1995 enlargement of the European Union

Campos, Nauro; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Franceschi, Emanuele - 2021

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Immigration, unemployment and wages : new causality evidence from the United Kingdom

Tunali, Çiğdem Börke; Fidrmuc, Jan; Campos, Nauro - 2017 - This version: April 4, 2017

The vast literature on the effects of immigration on wages and employment is plagued by likely endogeneity and aggregation biases. Ours is among the first papers to address both of these issues by means of causality analysis and by accounting for human capital endowments. Our analysis confirms...

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"Investing" in care for old age? : an examination of long-term care expenditure dynamics and its spillovers

Costa-Font, Joan; Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina - 2022

draw from a panel of more than a decade worth of expenditure data from a sample of OECD countries. We use a panel Vector … Auto-regressive (panel-VAR) system that consider the dynamics between the dependent variables. We find that LTC expenditure …

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Do economic recessions "squeeze the middle-class"?

Batinti, Alberto; Costa-Font, Joan - 2017 - This version: September 7th, 2017

Economic downturns give rise to unexpected employment shocks that can reshape the distribution of population income, and hence produce a "middle-class squeeze". However, there is limited empirical evidence testing the latter. This paper aims at testing the "middle-class squeeze" hypothesis...

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Comrades in the family? : Soviet communism and informal family insurance

Costa-Font, Joan; Nicińska, Anna - 2020

We study the effect of exposure to communism (EC), a political-economic regime based on collectivist planning, on preferences for family supports, which we refer to as "informal family insurance". We exploit both cross-country and cohort variation in EC in a large sample of Central and Eastern...

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"Globesity"? : the effects of globalization on obesity and caloric intake

Costa-Font, Joan; Mas, Núria - 2014

This study considers the effects of globalization, in its economic and social dimensions, on obesity and caloric intake … globalization and both obesity and caloric intake. A one standard deviation increase in globalization is associated with a 20 … with an instrument variable strategy, a lagged structure, and corrections for panel standard errors. The primary driver is …

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The measurement of health inequalities : does status matter?

Costa-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank A. - 2016

The measurement of health inequalities usually involves either estimating the concentration of health outcomes using an income-based measure of status or applying conventional inequalitymeasurement tools to a health variable that is non-continuous or, in many cases, categorical. However, these...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011547679

Structural reforms, growth and inequality : an overview of theory, measurement and evidence

Campos, Nauro; De Grauwe, Paul; Ji, Yuemei - 2017

This paper provides a critical overview of the state of the art in the economics literature on structural reforms. It takes stock of theoretical developments, measurement efforts and of the econometric evidence. We start with a simple theoretical framework for the relationship between structural...

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Does insurance expansion alter health inequality and mobility? : evidence from the Mexican seguro popular

Costa-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank A.; Sáenz de Miera … - 2017

The effect of insurance expansions on the distribution of health status is still a matter we know little about. This paper draws upon new measures of pure health inequality and mobility in health which accommodates categorical data to understand how an expansion of public insurance affects both...

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