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Cumulation of Cross-Section Surveys : Evaluation of Alternative Concepts for the Cumulated Continuous Household Budget Surveys (LWR) 1999 Until 2003 Compared to the Sample Survey o...
Merz, Joachim - 2010
With the development of household budget systems and with regard to the requirements of the European Union with new EU-SILC approaches, the cumulation of cross-section surveys to an integrated information system is recently discussed and required. In particular the reconstruction of household...
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Modern Infectious Diseases : Macroeconomic Impacts and Policy Responses
Bloom, David E. - 2020
. First, we cover the role of health in driving economic growth and well-being and discuss standard frameworks for assessing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824432
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Families in Macroeconomics
Doepke, Matthias - 2016
aggregate labor supply and savings. Next, we turn to economic growth, and describe how accounting for families is central for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996540
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Parenting with Style : Altruism and Paternalism in Intergenerational Preference Transmission
Doepke, Matthias - 2013
We construct a theory of intergenerational preference transmission that rationalizes the choice between alternative parenting styles (related to Baumrind 1967). Parents maximize an objective function that combines Beckerian and paternalistic altruism towards children. They can affect their...
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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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Immigration, Unemployment and Growth in the Host Country : Bootstrap Panel Granger Causality Analysis on OECD Countries
Boubtane, Ekrame - 2011
This paper examines the causality relationship between immigration, unemployment and economic growth of the host …, immigration does not cause unemployment. We also find that, in France, Iceland, Norway and United Kingdom, growth positively … causes immigration, while in any country, immigration does not cause growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122115
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Hyperbolic Discounting and Positive Optimal Inflation
Graham, Liam - 2011
The Friedman rule states that steady-state welfare is maximized when there is deflation at the real rate of interest. Recent work by Khan et al (2003) uses a richer model but still finds deflation optimal. In an otherwise standard new Keynesian model we show that, if households have hyperbolic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125143
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Immigration, Growth and Unemployment : Panel VAR Evidence from OECD Countries
Boubtane, Ekrame - 2012
This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ panel VAR techniques to use a large annual dataset on 22 OECD countries over the period 1987-2009. The VAR approach allows to addresses the endogeneity problem by allowing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098455
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Productivity and the Welfare of Nations
Basu, Susanto - 2012
calculate welfare gaps and growth rates in a sample of developed countries with high-quality total factor productivity and … capital data. Under realistic scenarios, the U.K. and Spain had the highest growth rates of welfare during the sample period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107706