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Wage Risk and Employment Risk over the Life Cycle
Low, Hamish; Meghir, Costas; Pistaferri, Luigi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
heterogeneity. Our model allows for four main social insurance programmes. In contrast to simpler models that attribute all income … stamps which partially insure productivity risk is greater than the value of unemployment insurance which provides (partial …) insurance against employment risk and no insurance against persistent shocks. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822852
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The Response of Consumption in Russian Households to Economic Shocks
Stillman, Steven - 2001
This paper examines the extent to which consumption in Russian households responds to exogenous income shocks. During the time period studied in this paper (1994 – 1998), Russia experienced two major economic crises. Both featured extreme movements in the real ruble-dollar exchange rate. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262612
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Wage risk and employment risk over the life cycle
Low, Hamish; Meghir, Costas; Pistaferri, Luigi - 2008
heterogeneity. Our model allows for four main social insurance programmes. In contrast to simpler models that attribute all income … stamps which partially insure productivity risk is greater than the value of unemployment insurance which provides (partial …) insurance against employment risk and no insurance against persistent shocks. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268615
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The Response of Consumption in Russian Households to Economic Shocks
Stillman, Steven - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
This paper examines the extent to which consumption in Russian households responds to exogenous income shocks. During the time period studied in this paper (1994 – 1998), Russia experienced two major economic crises. Both featured extreme movements in the real ruble-dollar exchange rate. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566824
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Geographical Origins and Economic Consequences of Language Structures
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2016
This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584694
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Economic Development and the Organisation of Labour: Evidence from the Jobs of the World Project
Bandiera, Oriana; Elsayed, Ahmed; Heil, Anton; Smurra, … - 2022
The Jobs of the World Project is a public resource designed to enable research on jobs and poverty across and within countries over the entire development spectrum. At its core is a new data set assembled by harmonising Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and National Censuses (IPUMS) for all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470400
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The Origins of the Division of Labor in Pre-Modern Times
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2018
This research explores the historical roots of the division of labor in pre-modern societies. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that intra-ethnic diversity had a positive effect on the division of labor across ethnicities in the pre-modern era. Exploiting a variety of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873558
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Meritocracy across Countries
Bandiera, Oriana; Kotia, Ananya; Lindenlaub, Ilse; … - 2024
Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on skills rather than idiosyncratic attributes unrelated to productivity? If so, why? And what are the aggregate consequences? Using internationally comparable data on worker skills and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533817
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Loose Knots: Strong versus Weak Commitments to Save for Education in Uganda
Karlan, Dean; Linden, Leigh L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Commitment devices offer an opportunity to restrict future choices. However, if severe restrictions deter participation, weaker restrictions may be a more effective means of changing behavior. We test this using a school-based commitment savings device for educational expenses in Uganda. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010735247
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The impact of education on the subjective discount rate in Ugandan villages
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2009
Heterogeneity in time discounting may reinforce the existing barriers to save and invest faced by rural populations in developing countries. We elicit a subjective discount rate for a varied sample of Ugandan villagers. In accordance with other studies, we have found the discount rate to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268981