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Labor supply response in macroeconomic models: Assessing the empirical validity of the intertemporal labor supply response from a stochastic overlapping generations model with incomplete markets

Contreras, Juan; Sinclair, Sven - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

response to anticipated changes in wages (holding the marginal utility of wealth constant-that is, the Frisch elasticity) and … substantially the estimates of the Frisch elasticity. The labor supply response to an unanticipated change in wages is small because … to unanticipated change in wages (which describes the effect of uncertainty in labor supply responses). The model …

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Immigration, Trade and Wages in Germany

Yaya, Mehmet-Erdem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

regressions, trying to capture the effect of these variables on the real wages and salaries in Germany while considering the … emigration on the real wages and salaries of German laborers. Annual data for 49 years has been used to estimate twelve different … unification of West-East Germany with a dummy variable. The results are intriguing, and contradicting with most of the earlier …

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Business Cycle Synchronisation in EU : A Time-Varying Approach

Degiannakis, Stavros Antonios - 2018

This paper investigates the time-varying correlation between the EU12-wide business cycle and the initial EU12 member-countries based on Scalar-BEKK and multivariate Riskmetrics model frameworks for the period 1980-2012. The paper provides evidence that changes in the business cycle...

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‘Williamson's Fallacy’ in Estimation of Inter-Regional Inequality

Gluschenko, Konstantin - 2017

When estimating regional inequality, many economists use inequality indices weighted by the regions' shares in the national population. Although this approach is widespread, its adequacy has not received attention in the regional science literature. This paper proves that such approach is...

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Education Inequality, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality : Evidence from Indonesia, 1996-2005

Digdowiseiso, Kumba - 2010

This paper examines the determinants of economic growth, income inequality, and their relationship in the context of education inequality. The econometrics indicate that a higher level of human capital and the relative dispersion of human capital have a disequalizing relationship with income...

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A Survey on Labor Markets Imperfections in Mexico Using a Stochastic Frontier

Villa, Juan M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

estimation of the wage gain due to the presence of labor market imperfections across those three stages. The part of the wage … belonging to the Mexican labor survey -ENOE-. The results suggest that 82.7% of the variance of the wages of the subordinated …

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Subsídio de desemprego: uma revisão da literatura teórica e empírica

Simoes, Nadia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

A vast theoretical and empirical literature has focused on the effects of unemployment insurance benefits on the decisions of the recipients and how these decisions influence their labor market outcomes. Three strands of literature are discussed in this paper: (i) the impact of unemployment...

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Immigrant Concentration at School and Natives' Achievement : Does the Type of Migrants and Natives Matter?

Bossavie, Laurent - 2017

Using a rich dataset of primary school students in the Netherlands, this paper investigates the heterogeneous effects of immigrant concentration in the classroom on the academic achievement of natives. To identify the treatment effect, it takes advantage of some features of the Dutch primary...

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Gerechtigkeit und Verteilungswirkungen der Gesundheitsreform 2007

Honekamp, Ivonne; Rehmann, Adelheid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Discussions of health care reforms are always tightly connected with the question of ensuring equity in financing health care. This paper analyses the German health care reform 2007 and its effect on the equity of health care financing. To do this Rawls’ and Nozick’s perceptions of justice...

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Some results from a model of trade, aid and development in South

Chichilnisky, Graciela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1978

In this paper I describe certain results that were obtained in the UNITAR project based on a model I have specified for studying the relationship between international terms of trade and domestic income distributions of the exporting countries within the South. In particular, I shall concentrate...

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