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development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing …We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function-physical capital, human capital, labor, and technology …
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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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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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exogenously imposed population thresholds leading to an increased number and/or remuneration of local office-holders. Using data … population growth through policy measures aimed at stimulating net in-migration when approaching important population thresholds … election cycle to maximize population growth just before the 'deadline' to surpass a population threshold - act as a key …
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using multiple integrated assessment models. The study looks at model and parametric uncertainties for population, total …
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which population size changes. Drawing on recent work in population ethics I propose an alternative welfare framework with …
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acquired by the representative organism in the short term determines the positive or negative population growth. Moving short …-run equilibria constitute the dynamics of the predator-prey relations that are characterized in numerical analysis. The population …
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We assess the concentration and duration of zero tax liabilities and of transfer receipts, using data for households with ten to forty years of observations from the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics. We find that neither is strongly concentrated. Nearly 68% owe no federal tax in at least one...
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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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