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When banana import restrictions lead to exports : a tale of cyclones and quarantine policies
Chia Chiun Ko; Frijters, Paul - 2014
banana producers accepting losses in normal years, off-set by large profits in years when cyclones destroy a large proportion … of the banana plants because of sufficiently low elasticity of demand. Using the cyclones of 2006 and 2011 as exogenous … have hit and re-planted banana plants have become productive. Combining the elasticity estimates with information on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250023
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Bounding the price equivalent of migration barriers
Clemens, Michael A.; Montenegro, Claudio; Pritchett, Lant - 2016
Large international differences in the price of labor can be sustained by differences between workers, or by natural and policy barriers to worker mobility. We use migrant selection theory and evidence to place lower bounds on the ad valorem equivalent of labor mobility barriers to the United...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454010
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How deep is your love? : a quantitative spatial analysis of the transatlantic trade partnership
Krebs, Oliver; Pflüger, Michael - 2015
World Input Output Database (WIOD). We also explore the consequences of labor mobility across local labor markets in Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516481
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Welfare effects of the euro cash changeover
Wunder, Christoph; Schwarze, Johannes; Krug, Gerhard; … - 2006
Using merged data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper applies a parametric difference-in-differences approach to assess the real effects of the introduction of the euro on subjective well-being. A complementary nonparametric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003522939
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An evaluation of the tax-transfer treatment of married couples in European countries
Immervoll, Herwig; Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Kreiner, … - 2009
This paper presents an evaluation of the tax-transfer treatment of married couples in 15 EU countries using the EUROMOD microsimulation model. First, we show that many tax-transfer schemes in Europe feature negative jointness defined as a situation where the tax rate on one person depends...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003801065
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Welfare and distributional impact of soaring prices in Europe
Sologon, Denisa M.; O'Donoghue, Cathal; Linden, Jules; … - 2022
This paper disentangles the distributional and welfare impact of price changes since the start of the cost of living crisis for a subset of European countries with different welfare regimes and price changes. It decomposes the impact of inflation and measures welfare changes using the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013460152
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Is a flat tax feasible in a grown-up welfare state?
Fuest, Clemens (contributor); Peichl, Andreas (contributor);  … - 2007
reforms on equity and efficiency for the case of Germany. We find that a flat rate tax with a low tax rate and a low basic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003578894
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Comparing the effectiveness of employment subsidies
Brown, Alessio J. G. (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should be targeted. We contrast measures involving targeting workers with low incomes/abilities and targeting the unemployed under the criteria of "approximate welfare efficiency" (AWE). Thereby we can identify policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003597829
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Revisiting the income-health nexus : the importance of choosing the “right” indicator
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Frick, Joachim R. - 2010
We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941754
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Cross-national differences in wealth portfolios at the intensive margin : is there a role for policy?
Doorley, Karina; Sierminska, Eva - 2014
Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach in this literature, we show that cohort effects exist in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European countries, the U.S. and Canada. We find that the association between household wealth portfolios at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010379932