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Household Saving and Full Consumption over the Life Cycle
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2001
This paper extends the standard model of life cycle consumption, saving and labor supply in a number of directions. First, it argues that consumption should be defined as expenditure on household production as well as on market goods, that is, we are interested in life cycle profiles of full...
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Estimating the impact of immigrants on the host country social security system when return migration is an endogenous choice
Kirdar, Murat G. - 2010
In this paper, I estimate the fiscal impact of immigrants on the German pension insurance (PI) and unemployment insurance (UI) systems when return migration is an endogenous choice. For this purpose, I develop a dynamic stochastic model of joint return migration and saving decisions that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269880
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On the identification of Frisch labor supplies
Donni, Olivier - 2006
This paper examines how Frisch labor supplies, and other structural components of the intertemporal model of labor supply, can be recovered from estimates obtained with the approach developed by Heckman and MaCurdy.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268034
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Life-cycle equilibrium unemployment
Chéron, Arnaud; Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François - 2008
This paper develops a life-cycle approach to equilibrium unemployment. Workers only differ respectively to their distance from deterministic retirement. A non age-directed search equilibrium is then typically featured by increasing (decreasing) firing (hiring) rates with age and a hump-shaped...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268639
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The impact of wealth on job exit rates of elderly workers
Bloemen, Hans G. - 2006
through 2001, we analyse the impact of wealth, savings, and debt position on job exit rates. We find evidence for a positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271873
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Extremism within the family
Epstein, Gil S. - 2006
adulthood. We develop a theory that suggests that parents will chose extreme ethnic and social traits in order to increase the … social traits of parents has an effect on the segregation of minorities and migrants. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267992
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Do migrants get good jobs in Australia? The role of ethnic networks in job search
Mahuteau, Stéphane; Junankar, P. N. (Raja) - 2008
We study the role of ethnic networks in migrants' job search and the quality of jobs they find in the first years of … result of restrictions in welfare eligibility since 1997, we study whether this increases the probability that new migrants … view. However, accounting for their higher employability, new migrants seem to fare better up to a year and half after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272890
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Out of sight, out of mind: migration, entrepreneurship and social capital
Wahba, Jackline; Zenou, Yves - 2009
-migrant. Although migrants lose their original social networks whilst overseas, savings and human capital accumulation acquired abroad …The aim of this paper is to investigate whether return migrants are more likely to become entrepreneurs than non-migrants … entrepreneurs for returnees but matter for non-migrants. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269590
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Gender, time use and public policy over the life cycle
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2005
In this paper we compare gender differences in the allocation of time to market work, domestic work, child care, and leisure over the life cycle. Time use profiles for these activity categories are constructed on survey data for three countries: Australia, the UK and Germany. We discuss the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267563
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Modeling migration dynamics of immigrants: the case of The Netherlands
Bijwaard, Govert E. - 2007
Netherlands. We show how we can allow for both permanent and temporary migrants. Based on data from Statistics Netherlands we … differences among migrants by migration motive and by country of origin and lend support to our analytical framework. Combining … of the migration dynamics it is important to allow for both permanent (stayers) migrants and temporary (movers) migrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268339