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Household Income As A Determinant of Child Labor and School Enrollment in Brazil : Evidence From A Social Security Reform
de Carvalho Filho, Irineu - 2008
This paper studies the effects of household income on labor participation and school enrollment of children aged 10 to 14 in Brazil using a social security reform as a source of exogenous variation in household income. Estimates imply that the gap between actual and full school enrollment was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014409070
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Household Income As A Determinant of Child Labor and School Enrollment in Brazil
Carvalho Filho, Irineu E. - 2008
This paper studies the effects of household income on labor participation and school enrollment of children aged 10 to 14 in Brazil using a social security reform as a source of exogenous variation in household income. Estimates imply that the gap between actual and full school enrollment was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677675
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Gender and its Relevance to Macroeconomic Policy: A Survey
Stotsky, Janet Gale - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
This survey examines the implications of gender differences in economic behavior for macroeconomic policy. It finds that reducing gender inequality and improving the status of women may contribute to higher rates of economic growth and greater macroeconomic stability. Women's relative lack of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826540
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What Should Macroeconomists Know About Health Care Policy?
Heller, Peter S. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
This primer aims to provide IMF macroeconomists with the essential information they need to address issues concerning health sector policy, particularly when they have significant macroeconomic implications. Such issues can also affect equity and growth and are fundamental to any strategy of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005599256
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Who Saves in Ireland? T+L3251he Micro Evidence
Badia, Marialuz Moreno - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
households at the peak of their working lives have relatively low savings though there is no evidence of a generational savings … savings and housing capital gains. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263766
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Is Housing Wealth An 'ATM'? the Relationship Between Household Wealth, Home Equity withdrawal, and Saving Rates
Klyuev, Vladimir; Mills, Paul S. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
This paper examines the role increasing personal wealth and home equity withdrawal (HEW) have had in the decline in the personal saving rate in the United States. It does so by comparing the U.S. experience with those of Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Mortgage market liberalization...
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Economic Implications of China's Demographics in the 21st Century
Cheng, Kevin C. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
general equilibrium model. The simulations show that lower fertility rates yield lower saving rates. Since lower fertility … mobility is high in China, a low fertility rate implies more future capital outflows. But if capital is less mobile, low … fertility today lowers the domestic return to capital and raises the domestic return to labor. In addition, the paper finds no …
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Dissecting saving dynamics : measuring wealth, precautionary, and credit effects
Carroll, Chris; Slacalek, Jirka; Sommer, Martin - 2012
We argue that the U.S. personal saving rate's long stability (from the 1960s through the early 1980s), subsequent steady decline (1980s - 2007), and recent substantial increase (2008 - 2011) can all be interpreted using a parsimonious 'buffer stock' model of optimal consumption in the presence...
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The volatility trap : precautionary saving, investment, and aggregate risk
Cherif, Reda; Hasanov, Fuad - 2012
We study the effects of permanent and temporary income shocks on precautionary saving and investment in a ""store-or-sow"" model of growth. High volatility of permanent shocks results in high precautionary saving in the safe asset and low investment, or a ""volatility trap."" Namely, big savers...
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A Real Model of Transitional Growth and Competitiveness in China
Lipschitz, Leslie - 2008
We present a stylized real model of the Chinese economy with the objective of explaining two features: (1) domestic production is highly competitive in the sense that an accumulation of capital that raises the marginal product of labor elicits increases in employment and output rather than only...
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