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Inequality and Volatility Moderation in Russia : Evidence from Micro-Level Panel Data on Consumption and Income
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2009
Monitoring Survey (RLMS) for 1994-2005. We analyze cross-sectional income and consumption inequality and find that inequality … shocks. The response of consumption to permanent and transitory income shocks becomes weaker later in the sample, consistent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158667
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Public acceptability of population-level interventions to reduce alcohol consumption: A discrete choice experiment
Pechey, Rachel; Burge, Peter; Mentzakis, Emmanouil; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 113 (2014) C, pp. 104-109
discrete choice experiment provides a novel investigation of the acceptability of different interventions to reduce alcohol … consumption and the effect of information on expected effectiveness, using a UK general population sample of 1202 adults. Policy … options included high, medium and low intensity versions of: Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) for alcohol; reducing numbers of …
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Economic Development, Novelty Consumption, and Body Weight : Evidence from the East German Transition to Capitalism
Dragone, Davide - 2015
weight and obesity rates. We first introduce the concept of novelty consumption, which refers to an increase in food … availability due to trade or innovation. Then we study how novel food products alter the optimal consumption bundle and welfare … experiment of economic development. Our data elicit detailed information on East Germans' food consumption, body mass, and diet …
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Behavioral Responses to Taxation : Cigarette Taxes and Food Stamp Take-Up
Rozema, Kyle - 2015
This paper investigates a previously unexplored behavioral response to taxation: whether smokers compensate for higher cigarette taxes by enrolling in food stamps. First, we show theoretically that increases in cigarette taxes can induce food stamp take-up of non-enrolled, eligible smoking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013025318
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International Job Search:Mexicans In and Out of the US
Rendon, Sílvio; Cuecuecha, Alfredo - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
It is argued that migration from Mexico to the US and its corresponding return migration aredetermined by international wage differentials and preferences for origin. We use a model ofjob search, savings and migration to show that job turnover is a crucial determinant of themigration process...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861161
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Entrepreneurship, Wealth, Liquidity Constraintsand Start-up Costs
Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Sopraseuth, Thepthida - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We study the effects of liquidity constraints and start-up costs on the relationship betweenwealth and the fraction of entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupationalchoice model with endogenous wealth and entry into entrepreneurship...
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International Migration and Regional Housing Markets : Evidence from France
d'Albis, Hippolyte - 2017
This article examines the causal relations between non-European immigration and the characteristics of the housing market in host regions. We constructed a unique database from administrative records and used it to assess annual migration flows into France's 22 administrative regions from 1990...
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Some Surprising Facts About Working Time Accounts and the Business Cycle
Balleer, Almut - 2015
Working time accounts (WTAs) allow firms to smooth hours worked over time. This paper analyzes whether this increase in flexibility has also affected how firms adjust employment in Germany. Using a rich microeconomic dataset, we show that firms with WTAs show a similar separation and hiring...
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Families in Macroeconomics
Doepke, Matthias - 2016
Much of macroeconomics is concerned with the allocation of physical capital, human capital, and labor over time and across people. The decisions on savings, education, and labor supply that generate these variables are made within families. Yet the family (and decision-making in families) is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996540
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Worker Churn and Employment Growth at the Establishment Level
Bachmann, Ruediger - 2017
We study the relationship between employment growth and worker flows in excess of job flows (churn) at the establishment level using the new German AWFP dataset spanning from 1975–2014. Churn is above 5 percent of employment along the entire employment growth distribution and most pronounced...
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