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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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Quasi-Experimental Impact Estimates of Immigrant Labor Supply Shocks : The Role of Treatment and Comparison Group Matching and Relative Skill Composition
Aydemir, Abdurrahman - 2013
earlier waves of repatriates, which provides us a strong source of exogenous variation in the 1989 immigrant shock across … terms of covariate distributions of the treatment and comparison groups – using propensity score matching.We find a positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087423
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The Role of Early-Life Conditions in the Cognitive Decline Due to Adverse Events Later in Life
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2010
Cognitive functioning of elderly individuals may be affected by events such as the loss of a (grand)child or partner or the onset of a serious chronic condition, and by negative economic shocks such as job loss or the reduction of pension benefits. It is conceivable that the impact of such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147372
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Measuring Immigration's Effects on Labor Demand : A Reexamination of the Mariel Boatlift
Bodvarsson, Orn B.; Lewer, Joshua J.; van den Berg, Hendrik - 2021
the effects of an immigration shock on labor demand by testing a general equilibrium model in which imperfectly … substitutable native and immigrant workers spend their wages on a locally produced good. The shock induces three responses: (i) a … can fall, stay the same or rise, depending upon the strength of the shock and various product and factor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316921
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External Monetary Shocks and Monetary Integration : Evidence from the Bulgarian Currency Board
Minea, Alexandru; Rault, Christophe - 2021
Starting July the 1st 1997, Bulgaria adopted a Currency Board (CB) monetary system. This paper aims at investigating if the adoption of the CB monetary system, which involves the cost of loosing monetary autonomy, has provided a relatively better (with respect to other CEEC) monetary integration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315999
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When Banana Import Restrictions Lead to Exports : A Tale of Cyclones and Quarantine Policies
Ko, Chia Chiun - 2014
an ‘over-shooting' in terms of the supply response after these cyclones, leading to positive exports years after cyclones …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057905
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Temporary Shocks and Offshoring : The Role of External Economies and Firm Heterogeneity
Mitra, Devashish; Jha, Priyaranjan - 2007
We construct a model of offshoring with externalities and firm heterogeneity. Due to the presence of externalities, temporary shocks like the Y2K problem can have permanent effects, i.e., they can permanently raise the extent of offshoring in an industry. Also, the initial advantage of a country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014049472
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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 … supply literature, one can identify the purely distortionary effects of UI using variations along the returns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076165
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Welfare Implications of India's Employment Guarantee Programme with a Wage Payment Delay
Basu, Parantap - 2015
We examine the efficacy of a popular anti-poverty programme, namely the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) of the Government of India. We argue that a chronic friction of wage payment delay in this flagship programme could adversely affect the welfare of the poor through two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012812
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Minimum Wage : Does it Improve Welfare in Thailand?
Del Carpio, Ximena V. - 2014
We study the causal impact of the minimum wage on employment and welfare in Thailand using a difference-in-difference approach that relies on exogenous policy variation in minimum wages across provinces. We find that minimum-wage increases have small disemployment effects on female, elderly, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013059684