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Demography, capital flows and unemployment
Marchiori, Luca; Pierrard, Olivier; Sneessens, Henri R. - 2011
unemployment, which we calibrate on EU15 and US data. Labor market imperfections are found to significantly increase the volume of … to investigate how demographic asymmetries may have contributed to unemployment and welfare changes in the recent past …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282316
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262139
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Career progression and formal versus on-the-job training
Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Meghir, Costas; … - 2006
Tax Credit in Germany, and the other is a reform to Unemployment Insurance. In both reforms we find very significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268053
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Unions, Firing Costs and Unemployment
Modesto, Leonor - 2004
unemployment and decrease old age unemployment. However, once we take the wage response into account, we find that firing costs … increase both youth and old age unemployment. This happens because unions react strategically, and respond to higher firing … increase their employment prospects. However, despite this cut youth unemployment still increases with firing costs. In the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261905
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The Economics of Human Cloning
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2000
In this paper, we analyze the extent to which market forces create an incentive for cloning human beings. We show that a market for cloning arises if a large enough fraction of the clone?s income can be appropriated by its model. Only people with the highest ability are cloned, while people at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262438
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Global aging and fiscal policy with international labor mobility: a political economy perspective
Tosun, Mehmet Serkan - 2009
This paper uses an overlapping generations model with international labor mobility and a politically responsive fiscal policy to examine aging in developed and developing regions. Migrant workers change the political structure composed of young and elderly voters in both labor-receiving and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269040
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On the origin of the family
Francesconi, Marco; Ghiglino, Christian; Perry, Motty - 2009
This paper presents an overlapping generations model to explain why humans live in families rather than in other pair groupings. Since most non-human species are not familial, something special must be behind the family. It is shown that the two necessary features that explain the origin of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269437
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Genes, legitimacy and hypergamy: another look at the economics of marriage
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009
In order to credibly sell legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of human capital accumulation, and the evolution of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271277
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Job losses and child outcomes
Bratberg, Espen; Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Vaage, Kjell - 2007
Based on matched employer-employee data from Norway, we analyze the effects of worker displacement in 1986-1987 on their children's earnings in 1999-2001. Using displacement of fathers to indicate an exogenous earnings shock we seek to identify whether family resources have a direct effect on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268413
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Demography, Capital Flows and Unemployment
Marchiori, Luca; Pierrard, Olivier; Sneessens, Henri R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
unemployment, which we calibrate on EU15 and US data. Labor market imperfections are found to significantly increase the volume of … to investigate how demographic asymmetries may have contributed to unemployment and welfare changes in the recent past …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371176