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waves to estimate how regional population reacts to asymmetric shocks. These shocks are measured by non-employment rates … regions as identifying information. Because we include region and time effects, we interpret regression-adjusted population … measure of regional shocks, at least we find no signi ficant effects for it. However, we find a significant population …
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This paper examines how economic insecurity and cultural anxiety have triggered different dimensions of the current populism in the United States. Specifically, I exploit two quasi-natural experiments, the Great Recession and the 2014 Northern Triangle immigrant in ux, to investigate the effects...
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This paper presents empirical evidence that racial diversity and immigrant population at the local level tend to be … associated with lower life satisfaction for Whites by matching individual data with the county-level population data during the … period 2005-2010. The magnitudes I find suggest that a ten percentage-point increase in the share of the non-White population …
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This paper uses a matching method to provide an estimate of the nativity wealth gap among older households in Europe. This approach does not require imposing any functional form on wealth and avoids validity-out-of-the-support assumptions; furthermore, it allows not only the estimation of the...
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Nations World Population Policies database, and the World Bank World Development Indicators for the period 1976 through 2013 …
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Population ageing affects most countries, especially developed ones. The elderly have increased in number as a result … increase the labor force and broaden the tax base. Increasing immigration has a variety of effects on the local population … attractiveness of immigration as a solution to population ageing. This paper examines immigration as a solution to the problem of …
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This paper contributes to the literature on the distributional properties of VAT analysing who bears higher VAT payments between native and migrant household in France, Germany and Spain. The question is of interest both from a distributional and fiscal perspective, fitting the ongoing debate of...
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primary school education from 7 to 8 years. At the same time, the reform did not affect the education system at post …-primary levels, that is the system of secondary and higher education. In result, all education tracks were extended by one year … reform had a negative impact on the hourly earnings of individuals with primary education. …
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One of the potential avenues for former professional football players to pursue their career is to become a head coach of a club's first team. An important question is how to best prepare for such a reconversion. This letter is the first in the academic literature quantifying the association...
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This paper presents the first empirical evidence of the causal impact of individuals' education on their attitudes … of education on gender role attitudes, we exploit the exogenous variation in individuals' education induced by the … education instigates egalitarian gender role attitudes equivalent of 0.1-0.3 of a standard deviation. While education …
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