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Using Difference-in-Differences estimation and data from the European Community Household Panel, this paper suggests …
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We relate origin-destination real price differences to immigrants' reservation wages and their career trajectories, exploiting administrative data from Germany and the 2004 enlargement of the European Union. We find that immigrants who enter Germany when a unit of earnings from Germany allows...
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. Economic theory suggests that the impact of exchange rates should vary with the degree of exposure to international competition …
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How does saving behavior of immigrants respond to changes in purchasing power parity between the source and host countries? We examine this question by building a theoretical model of joint return-migration and saving decisions of temporary migrants and then test its implications by using data...
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test for cointegrating relationships corresponding to the patterns predicted by theory. We confirm episodes of expansion of …
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, Brazil and Uruguay, relying on high quality matched employer-employee administrative data. Downward nominal wage rigidities … are more important in Uruguay, while wage indexation is dominant in Brazil. Two regime changes are observed during the … sample period, 1995-2004: (i) in Uruguay wage indexation declines, while workers' resistance to nominal wage cuts becomes …
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that randomizes job offers among students in Uruguay. Using social security data matched to over 120,000 applicants, we …
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By using a bunching design on rich administrative tax records from Uruguay's tax agency we explore how individual …
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composition within the household. -- Optimal taxation of married couples ; joint taxation ; labor supply estimation …
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The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and statistical confidence in establishing poverty rankings across...
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