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This paper revisits the standard model of labor supply under two additional assumptions: consumption requires time and some limited amount of work is enjoyable. Whereas introducing each assumption without the other one does not produce novel insights, combining them together does if the wage...
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in endogenous growth theory, but modified to allow for demand-side constraints. This is a novel approach, given that …
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It is now well known that exogenous immigration shocks tend to have benign effects on native employment outcomes, thanks to various secondary adjustment processes made possible by flexible markets. One adjustment process that has received scant attention is that immigrants, as consumers of the...
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. Together the two effects generate a cumulative process that adds up to a social multiplier explaining how equality multiplies … spending) we test the main predictions of the model and identify a sizeable magnitude of the equality multiplier. We obtain …
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Several contributions have recently assessed the size of fiscal multipliers both in RBC models and New Keynesian models. None of the studies considers a model with frictional labour markets which is a crucial element, particularly at times in which much of the fiscal stimulus has been directed...
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A mother's decision to participate in the labour market is correlated with those of the other mothers living in the same neighbourhood. This paper studies the extent to which this is causal. An identification problem exists because mothers with similar characteristics are often observed living...
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responses to an aggregate fiscal multiplier using a multi-region, New Keynesian model with heterogeneous agents, incomplete … markets, and trade linkages. Our model is consistent with the estimated positive local multiplier, a result that distinguishes … multiplier is twice as large as the local multiplier because trade linkages propagate the effect of government spending across …
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that on investment wears out in the second year. The impact multiplier for income implies a substantial increase in income … due to remittances through the multiplier process. The remittances-induced output growth rate is highest during the early …
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This article analyses the school performance of migrants dependent on peer groups in different international schooling environments. Using data from the international OECD PISA test, we consider social interaction within and between groups of natives and migrants. Results based on social...
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Accounting Matrix (SAM) database and made a multiplier analysis to explore the linkages and estimate the multiplier coefficients … economy. The multiplier analysis shows that an exogenous shock to the agriculture-based industry has a higher multiplier …
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