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Who does not like migrants? : individual demographics and attitudes towards migration
Rozo, Sandra V.; Urbina, Maria J. - 2020
individuals showing a disproportionate negative response to migration flows and whether these responses differ when the arrival of … refugees occurred concurrently with economic shocks. We document that, on average, migration shocks translate to lower support …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306366
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Demography of global aging
Bloom, David E.; Mitgang, Elizabeth; Osher, Benjamin - 2016
Individuals aged 65 years and older currently make up a larger share of the population than ever before, and this group is predicted to continue growing both in absolute terms and relative to the rest of the population. This chapter begins by introducing the facts, figures, and forecasts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528113
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Unemployment vouchers versus low-wage subsidies
Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
: unemployment vouchers and low-wage subsidies. The unemployment vouchers are targeted exclusively at the unemployed (especially the … longterm unemployed) and are provided only for a limited period of time. The low-wage subsidies, on the other hand, are granted … relative to low-wage subsidies. Conversely, the greater the danger that workers come to be trapped in dead-end jobs with flat …
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Can agricultural extension and input support be discontinued? : evidence from a randomized phaseout in Uganda
Fishman, Ram; Smith, Stephen C.; Bobić, Vida; … - 2019
A society that believes wealth to be determined by random "luck", rather than by merit, demands more redistribution. We present evidence of this behavior by exploiting a natural experiment provided by the L'Aquila earthquake in 2009, which hit a large area of Central Italy through a series of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012035684
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Equal opportunity through higher education : theory and evidence on privilege and ability
Arbel, Yuval; Bar-El, Ronen; Tobol, Yossi - 2017
We model a higher education system that admits students according to their admission signal (e.g., matriculation GPA, SAT), which is, in turn, affected by their cognitive ability and socioeconomic background. We show that subsidizing education loans increases neither human capital stock nor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613138
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People, places and public policy : some simple welfare economics of local economic development programs
Kline, Patrick; Moretti, Enrico - 2013
class of "place based" policies attempt to address these differences through public investments and subsidies that target …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010212999
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Eco-innovation and employment: a task-based analysis
Elliott, Robert J. R.; Kuai, Wenjing; Maddison, David; … - 2021
This paper provides some of the first evidence of the relationship between eco-innovation and employment. Adopting a O*NET based task approach, in a study of the Dutch firms, we show that eco-innovation has no impact on overall employment. However, compared to non- eco-innovators there is an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012415942
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How sustainable are benefits from extension for smallholder farmers? : evidence from a randomized phase-out of the BRAC program in Uganda
Fishman, Ram; Smith, Stephen C.; Bobić, Vida; … - 2017
Many development programs are based on short-term interventions, either because of external funding constraints or because it is assumed that impacts persist post program termination ("sustainability"). Using a novel randomized phase-out research method, we provide experimental tests of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631534
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The G.I. Bill and underemployment
Domnisoru, Ciprian - 2023
While the ill luck of graduating during a recession is understood to potentially result in job mismatch, less is known about the drivers of underemployment outside of business cycles. This paper shows that the college subsidy investments undertaken as part of the WWII, Vietnam War, and Post-9/11...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014339702
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Who wins and who loses from state subsidies?
Du, Jun; Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Stepanok, Ignat - 2022
competitive. We implement an approach that allows for the joint estimation of direct and indirect effects of subsidies on … subsidized and non-subsidized firms. We find that firms that receive subsidies experience a boost for productivity. However, our … where other firms are subsidized. These negative externalities depend on the share of firms that receive subsidies in the …
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