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Greying the Budget : Ageing and Preferences Over Public Policies
de Mello, Luiz R. - 2016
This paper looks at how individual preferences for the allocation of government spending change along the life cycle …. Our findings are consistent with a body of literature arguing that conflict across generations over the allocation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000063
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Optimal Spatial Taxation : Are Big Cities Too Small?
Eeckhout, Jan - 2015
We analyze the role of optimal income taxation across different local labor markets. Should labor in large cities be taxed differently than in small cities? We find that a planner who needs to raise revenue and is constrained by free mobility of labor across cities does not choose equal taxes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029153
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Trade Shocks and the Provision of Local Public Goods
Feler, Leo - 2016
services. Areas in the US with declining labor demand and incomes due to increasing import competition from China experience …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982120
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International Trade and its Effects on Economic Growth in China
Sun, Peng - 2010
the country to target the world as its market. This research discusses the role of international trade in China's economic … growth. It starts with a review of conceptions as well as the evolution of China's international trade regime and the policy … that China has taken in favor of trade sectors. In addition, China's international trade performance is analyzed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138732
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The Labeling Effect of a Child Benefits System : Evidence from Russia 1994-2015
Grogan, Louise - 2018
Impacts of child benefits and earned incomes on child wellbeing are identified for Russia. To predict earnings, a counter-factual commodity price model is constructed using information on local industrial composition and the evolution of world prices during 1994-2015 for six key commodity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906508
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Distributional Effects of Macroeconomic Policy Choices in Emerging Market Economies
Prasad, Eswar S. - 2013
Distributional consequences typically receive limited attention in economic models that analyze the effects of monetary and financial sector policies. These consequences deserve more attention since financial markets are incomplete, imperfect, and economic agents' access to them is often...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072155
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Are Intra-Household Allocations Policy Neutral? Theory and Empirical Evidence
Chiappori, Pierre-Andre - 2011
We develop a collective household model with spousal matching in which there exists marital gains to assortative matching and marriage quality for each couple is revealed ex post. Changes in alimony laws are shown to affect existing couples and couples-to-be differently. For existing couples,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127939
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Occupational Choice, Aggregate Productivity, and Trade
Meckl, Jürgen - 2011
We propose occupational decisions of heterogeneous individuals as an alternative mechanism of explaining the distribution of firm productivities emphasized by empirical studies. Thus, we integrate the frameworks of Melitz (2003), and of Manasse and Turrini (2001) that establish the theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129918
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Employment Protection, Technology Choice, and Worker Allocation
Bartelsman, Eric J. - 2011
Using a country-industry panel dataset (EUKLEMS) we uncover a robust empirical regularity, namely that high-risk innovative sectors are relatively smaller in countries with strict employment protection legislation (EPL). To understand the mechanism, we develop a two-sector matching model where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133623
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Decomposing the Sources of Earnings Inequality : Assessing the Role of Reallocation
Andersson, Fredrik - 2011
This paper exploits longitudinal employer-employee matched data from the U.S. Census Bureau to investigate the contribution of worker and firm reallocation to changes in earnings inequality within and across industries between 1992 and 2003. We find that factors that cannot be measured using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117408