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Cousins from overseas : the labour market impact of a major forced return migration shock
Bohnet, Lara; Peralta, Susana; Santos, João Pereira dos - 2022
We study the labour market impact of a major shock of return migration, following the end of the Portuguese Colonial War in 1974. The retornados influx is unique because of its size (half a million people in a country of nine million), and similarity with the native population (almost 80% of the...
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Health dynamics shape life-cycle incomes
Kotschy, Rainer - 2019
This paper empirically investigates the long-run effects of major health improvements on income growth in the United … States. To isolate exogenous changes in health, the econometric model uses quasi-experimental variation in cardiovascular … disease mortality across states over time. The results show that there is a causal link between health and income per person …
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Child health, parental well-being, and the social safety net
Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Daysal, N. Meltem; Snaebjorn … - 2023
How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate …' preferences to personally provide care for their children during the critical years following a severe health shock drive changes … in labor supply and income. Mental health and fertility effects are also observed but are likely not mediators for …
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Is Prescott right? : welfare state policies and the incentives to work, learn and retire
Jacobs, Bas (contributor) - 2008
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Optimal redistributive taxation with both labor supply and labor demand responses
Jacquet, Laurence; Lehmann, Etienne; Van der Linden, Bruno - 2012
This paper characterizes the optimal redistributive tax schedule in a matching unemployment framework where (voluntary) nonparticipation and (involuntary) unemployment are endogenous. The optimal employment tax rate is given by an inverse employment elasticity rule. This rule depends on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009518227
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Refugee migration and the labor market : lessons from 40 years of post-arrival policies in Denmark
Nielson Arendt, Jacob; Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin - 2022
Denmark has accepted refugees from a large variety of countries and for more than four decades. Denmark has also frequently changed policies and regulations concerning integration programs, transfer payments, and conditions for permanent residency. Such policy variation in conjunction with...
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Labor supply and automation innovation
Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Gäßler, Fabian - 2020
While economic theory suggests substitutability between labor and capital, little evidence exists regarding the causal effect of labor supply on inventing labor-saving technologies. We analyze the impact of exogenous changes in regional labor supply on automation innovation by exploiting an...
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Optimal fiscal policy with labor selection
Chugh, Sanjay K.; Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Merkl, Christian - 2018 - This Draft: June 11, 2018
This paper characterizes long-run and short-run optimal fiscal policy in the labor selection framework. In a calibrated non-Ramsey decentralized equilibrium, labor market volatility is inefficient. Keeping fixed the structural parameters, the Ramsey government achieves efficient labor market...
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Sick pay reforms and health status in a unionised labour market
Goerke, Laszlo - 2016
We theoretically analyse the effects of sick pay and employees' health on collective bargaining, assuming that … reduces labour supply sufficiently. Better employee health tends to foster wage demands. If the union determines both wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011561099
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Mexican and Hispanic net nutrition in the 19th century American West
Carson, Scott Alan - 2015
When traditional methods for measuring economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, heights and BMIs are now well accepted measurements that represent biological conditions during economic development. Weight, after controlling for height, is an alternative measure to BMI for current net...
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