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Impacts of Covid-19 on Household Welfare in Tunisia
Kokas, Deeksha; Lopez-Acevedo, Gladys; El Lahga, Abdel … - 2021
COVID-19 is likely to have a large impact on the welfare of Tunisian households. First, some individuals might be more vulnerable to contracting the disease because their living conditions or jobs make them more susceptible to meeting others or practicing social distancing. Lack of adequate...
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Minimum Wage Compliance and Household Welfare : An Analysis of Over 1500 Minimum Wages
Mansoor, Kashif - 2020
, household consumption increases following increases in the minimum wage; however, compliance matters. The beneficial pass …
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Intra-Household Wealth and Welfare Inequality in the US : Estimations from a Collective Model of Labor Supply
Molina, Jose Alberto - 2018
This paper analyzes the intra-household distribution of wealth and welfare in the United States, within a theoretical … framework based on a collective model of labor supply, where household decisions are Pareto efficient, and spouses negotiate a … wives tend to be more altruistic in comparison to their husbands regarding the intra-household allocation of income, which …
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The Lockdown Impact on Unemployment for Heterogeneous Workers
Kandoussi, Malak - 2020
We develop a multi-sectoral matching model to predict the impact of the lockdown on the US unemployment, considering the heterogeneity of workers to account for the contrasted impacts across various types of jobs. We show that separations and business closures that hit the workers with the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012829211
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Assessing the Welfare Effects of Unemployment Benefits Using the Regression Kink Design
Landais, Camille - 2013
I investigate in this paper partial equilibrium labor supply responses to unemployment insurance (UI) in the US. I use administrative data on the universe of unemployment spells in five states from the late 1970s to 1984, and non-parametrically identify the effect of both benefit level and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076165
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People, Places and Public Policy : Some Simple Welfare Economics of Local Economic Development Programs
Kline, Patrick - 2014
Most countries exhibit large and persistent geographical differences in wages, income and unemployment rates. A growing class of "place based" policies attempt to address these differences through public investments and subsidies that target disadvantaged neighborhoods, cities or regions. Place...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061936
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Comparing the Effectiveness of Employment Subsidies
Brown, Alessio J.G; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2021
This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should be targeted. We contrast measures involving targeting workers with low incomes/abilities and targeting the unemployed under the criteria of "approximate welfare efficiency" (AWE). Thereby we can identify policies...
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Estimating Incentive and Welfare Effects of Non-Stationary Unemployment Benefits
Launov, Andrey - 2010
The distribution of unemployment duration in our equilibrium matching model with spell-dependent unemployment benefits displays a time-varying exit rate. Building on Semi-Markov processes, we translate these exit rates into an expression for the aggregate unemployment rate. Structural estimation...
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Origins and Consequences of Child Labor Restrictions : A Macroeconomic Perspective
Doepke, Matthias; Krueger, Dirk - 2021
We investigate the positive and normative consequences of child-labor restrictions for economic aggregates and welfare. We argue that even though the laissez-faire outcome may be inefficient, there are usually better policies to cure these inefficiencies than the imposition of a child-labor ban....
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Studying the Nairu and its Implications
Bozani, Vasiliki - 2011
macroeconomic theory as well as its role in determining employment theories, it is raised the need for a thorough evaluation of its …
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