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A collective household model of time allocation : a comparison of native Dutch and immigrant households in the Netherlands
Klaveren, Chris van (contributor);  … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003364501
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Collective labor supply of native Dutch and immigrant households in the Netherlands
Klaveren, Chris van; Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Maassen … - 2009
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003922862
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Immigration, search, and redistribution : a quantitative assessment of native welfare
Battisti, Michele; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Peri, Giovanni; … - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418118
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Firm level productivity under imperfect competition in output and labor markets
Amoroso, Sara; Kort, Peter M.; Melenberg, Bertrand; … - 2010
This article examines the role of the interaction between product market and labor market imperfections in determining total factor productivity growth (TFPG). Embedding Dobbelaere and Mairesse's (2009) generalization of Hall's (1990) approach, allowing for the possibility that wages are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003974678
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Product market regulation and labor market outcomes : how can deregulation create jobs?
Burda, Michael C. - 2000
. Evidence on employment in the retail sector from Germany, the Netherlands and the United States suggests that the regulatory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781500
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Fiscal reforms during fiscal consolidation : the case of Italy
Arachi, Giampaolo; Bucci, Valeria; Longobardi, Ernesto; … - 2012
In this paper we aim to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the fiscal consolidation package adopted recently by the Italian Government in order to achieve a balanced budget by 2013. Revenues are forecasted to increase by more than 3.3 GDP percentage points; these stem mostly from indirect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009503793
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The German Local Population Database (GPOP), 1871 to 2019
Rösel, Felix - 2022
I present the first database of historical local population figures for all Germany. The German Local Population … Database (GPOP) includes total population in 1871, 1910, 1939, 1946, 1961, 1987, 1996, 2011, and 2019 for the universe of all …. For example, East and West Germany are heavily diverging in population since 1945; and the divide was not reversed but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013287977
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Pension systems, ageing and the stability and growth pact
Beetsma, Roel (contributor); Oksanen, Heikki (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003623944
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We do not know the population of every country in the world for the past two thousand years
Guinnane, Timothy - 2021
Economists have reported econometric results that rely on estimates of the population of every country in the world for … the past two thousand or more years. The underlying source is usually McEvedy and Jones' Atlas of World Population History … Jones cannot take advantage of improved estimates reported since 1978. McEvedy and Jones often infer population sizes from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012602344
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Populism and social polarization in European democracies
Ginsburgh, Victor; Perelman, Sergio; Pestieau, Pierre - 2020
The objective of this paper is to explain populist attitudes that are prevailing in a number of European democracies. Populist attitudes expectedly lead to social protests and populist votes. We capture the populist wave by relying not on voting behavior but rather on values that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257814