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Evaluating Labor Market Reforms : A General Equilibrium Approach
Galdon-Sanchez, José Enrique; Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús - 2004
Job security provisions are commonly invoked to explain the high and persistent European unemployment rates. This belief has led several countries to reform their labor markets and liberalize the use of fixed-term contracts. Despite how common such contracts have become after deregulation, there...
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Evaluating Environmental Programs: The Perspective of Modern Evaluation Research
Frondel, Manuel; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2001
Large-scale environmental programs generally commit substantial societal resources, making the evaluation of their actual effects on the relevant outcomes imperative. As the example of the subsidization of energy-saving appliances illustrates, much of the applied environmental economics...
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Trade, wages, and productivity
Behrens, Kristian; Mion, Giordano; Murata, Yasusada; … - 2008
Canada-U.S. interregional trade data, we first estimate a system of theory-based gravity equations under the general …
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Air Pollution Quotas and the Dynamics of Internal Skilled Migration in Chinese Cities
Yu, Bo; Lee, Wang-Sheng; Rafiq, Shuddhasattwa - 2020
This paper examines the role of a sulphur dioxide (SO2) emissions quota introduced as part of China's 11th Five …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270157
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Environmental Policy and Gender Health Gap
Guo, Liwen; Cheng, Zhiming; Tani, Massimiliano; Cook, Sarah - 2023
Utilizing a nationally representative panel data of middle-aged and elder individuals from China, we assess the health … thermal inversions to address the endogeneity of air pollution and constructs a fixed effects model. Our findings highlight … that the negative impact of air pollution on female health is significant, particularly for females in the middle of the …
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Substitutability and Competition in the Dixit-Stiglitz Model
Koeniger, Winfried; Licandro, Omar - 2004
The effects of competition on growth are analyzed in the recent literature by comparing economies with the same market structure but different degrees of substitutability. In this note, we show that in a general equilibrium model with monopolistic competition – la Dixit- Stiglitz the effect of...
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Labor Mobility, Trade and Social Capital
Schiff, Maurice - 2004
Labor market integration raises welfare in the absence of distortions. This paper examines labor and goods market integration in a general equilibrium model with social capital. The findings are: i) labor market integration has an ambiguous impact on welfare, and raises it if the goods produced...
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Migration and Diversity : Human versus Social Capital
Manole, Vlad; Schiff, Maurice - 2004
This paper examines the welfare implications associated with different degrees of diversity or similarity between migrants and natives under both migration and trade. We use a general equilibrium model of migration, human capital and social capital and find that there are three equilibrium...
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Fostering Within-Family Human Capital Investment: An Intragenerational Insurance Perspective of Social Security
Kaul, Ashok; Hagedorn, Marcus; Barbie, Martin - 2002
We develop a general equilibrium stochastic OLG model with heterogenous households. Households differ with respect to their productivity. Productivity depends stochastically on parents' unobservable investment in their child's human capital and an aggregate productivity shock. We introduce a...
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Trade and Child Labor : A General Equilibrium Analysis
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Bandyopadhyay, Sudeshna C. - 2005
This paper augments the existing literature on trade and child labor by exploring the effects of terms of trade changes in the context of a three good general equilibrium model, where one of the goods is a non-traded good. We find that under quasi-linear preferences the effect of the terms of...
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