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Bellettini, Giorgio; Berti Ceroni, Carlotta; Ottaviano, … - 2003

We study the interactions between technological innovation, investment in human capital and child labor. In our setting … firms decide on innovation, then households decide on education. In equilibrium the presence of inefficient child labor … on child labor are welfare reducing, while a subsidy to innovation is the right tool to eliminate child labor and …

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Education in a marriage market model without commitment

Hyee, Raphaela - 2011

This paper develops a model that combines intra-household bargaining with competition on the marriage market to analyse women's and men's incentives to invest in education. Once married, spouses bargain over their share of total household income. They have the option of unilateral divorce and...

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Do marriage markets influence the divorce hazard?

Hyee, Raphaela - 2011

This paper demonstrates that a woman's propensity to separate from her husband or live-in partner depends positively on male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings power, the more likely a woman is to end her...

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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income

Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria; … - 2023

Individuals vary considerably in how much they earn during their lifetimes. This study examines the role of the tax-and-transfer system in mitigating such inequalities, which could otherwise lead to disparities in living standards. Utilizing a life-cycle model, we determine that taxes and...

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Training and search on the job

Lentz, Rasmus; Roys, Nicolas - 2016

The paper studies human capital accumulation over workers' careers in an on the job search setting with heterogenous firms. In renegotiation proof employment con- tracts, more productive firms provide more training. Both general and specific training induce higher wages within jobs, and with...

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The measurement of labour content : a general approach

Yoshihara, Naoki; Veneziani, Roberto - 2013

This paper analyses the theoretical issues related to the measurement of labour content in the context of general technologies with heterogeneous labour. A novel axiomatic framework is used in order to formulate the key properties of the notion of labour content and analyse its theoretical...

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Intensive margin labour supply and the dynamic effects of in-work transfers

Goll, David; Joyce, Robert; Waters, Tom - 2023

Policy-makers have increasingly turned to ‘in-work transfers’ to boost incomes among poorer workers and strengthen work incentives. One attraction of these is that labour supply elasticities are typically greatest at the extensive margin. Because in-work transfers are normally subject to...

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Inventories, employment and hours

Galeotti, Marzio; Maccini, Louis J.; Schiantarelli, Fabio - 2002

The purpose of this paper is to develop a model that integrates inventory and labor decisions. We extend a model of inventory behavior to include a detailed specification of the role of labor input in the production process and of the costs associated with it. In particular, we distinguish...

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North-South climate change negotiations : a sequential game with asymmetric information

Caparrós Gass, Alejandro; Pereau, Jean-Christophe; … - 2003

This article determines the conditions under which the Southern countries should act together, or separately, while negotiating with the North about climate change policy and about the conditions for future Southern engagement. The paper models the international negotiations with complete and...

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Intellectual property rights, multinational firms and technology transfers

Biancini, Sara; Bombarda, Pamela - 2017

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