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inequality. In high income countries, the evidence that income (wealth) does have a causal impact on health in adulthood is weak …
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What determines remittances – altruism or enlightened self-interest - and do remittances trigger additional migration …, receipt of remittances may contribute to new flows of migration, in particular in the case of Morocco. …
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their subjective well-being remains lower than that of natives. This contrasts with migrants' own expectations and the … whose societal conditions strongly improved by migration and immigrants who arrived after childhood. Faltering societal …
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It is well-known that individuals born in different periods of time (cohorts)exhibit different wealth accumulation … accumulate wealth. The first one represents productivitydifferences across cohorts: the aggregate level of GNP per capita when … wealth holdings of different cohorts. In comparison with the cohorts that lived without SocialSecurity for a portion of their …
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I study the implications of climate change and adaptation on housing and income, and wealth. I embed climate change in … redistributive, as it amplifies both income and wealth inequality. Low-income workers experience a relatively larger decline in … wealth rises. Furthermore, I find that adapting to climate change is more challenging for lowincome households who are …
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Netherlands to investigate the role of liquid wealth. Within five years of job loss, the likelihood of being a permanent worker … shock to job security. This effect is driven by workers with low liquid wealth, pointing to liquidity constraints as an …
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This paper surveys migration to and from the Netherlands since thesixteenth century with an emphasis on the post …
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The ratio of consumption to total household wealth (i.e., tangible assets plus unobserved human wealth) is commonly … calculated from the estimation of a log-linear version of the household intertemporal budget constraint as a cointegrating … component in the consumption equation. The consumption-to-wealth ratio calculated from this model is much less persistent than …
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In this paper we investigate whether the dynamic properties of the U.S. business cycle have changed in the last fifty years. For this purpose we develop a flexible business cycle indicator that is constructed from a moderate set of macroeconomic time series. The coincident economic indicator is...
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This note clarifies the relation between two competing definitions of the contribution to pricediscovery in market microstructure models: (i) the information share and (ii) the common factorcomponent weight. It is demonstrated that the two measures are closely related, but that only...
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