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Tax Reform and the Dutch Labor Market : an Applied General Equilibrium Approach

Bovenberg, A. Lans; Graafland, Johan J.; De Mooij, Ruud A. - 2021

This paper employs MIMIC, an applied general equilibrium model of the Dutch economy, to explore various tax cuts aimed at combating unemployment and raising labor supply. MIMIC combines modern labor-market theories, a firm empirical foundation detailed description of Dutch labor-market...

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New Facts About Factor-Demand Dynamics : Employment, Jobs, and Workers

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Hassink, Wolter H.J; van Ours, Jan C. - 2021

We provide a unified discussion of the relations among flows of workers, changes in employment and changes in the number of jobs at the level of the firm. Using the only available set of data (a nationally representative sample of Dutch firms in 1988 and 1990) we discover that: 1) Nearly half of...

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Forecasting Trends in Disability in a Super-Aging Society : Adapting the Future Elderly Model to Japan

Chen, Brian - 2016

Japan has experienced pronounced population aging, and now has the highest proportion of elderly adults in the world …. Yet few projections of Japan's future demography go beyond estimating population by age and sex to forecast the complex … evolution of the health and functioning of the future elderly. This study adapts to the Japanese population the Future Elderly …

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The Exact Law of Large Numbers for Independent Random Matching

Duffie, Darrell - 2011

This paper provides a mathematical foundation for independent random matching of a large population, as widely used in … is an almost-sure constant cross-sectional distribution of types in a large population, and moreover that the multi …

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The "Out of Africa" Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development

Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2011

This research argues that deep-rooted factors, determined tens of thousands of years ago, had a significant effect on the course of economic development from the dawn of human civilization to the contemporary era. It advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that, in the course of the...

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Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space

Henderson, J. Vernon - 2010

GDP growth is often measured poorly for countries and rarely measured at all for cities or subnational regions. We propose a readily available proxy: satellite data on lights at night. We develop a statistical framework that uses lights growth to augment existing income growth measures, under...

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Populism and the Economics of Globalization

Rodrik, Dani - 2017

Populism may seem like it has come out of nowhere, but it has been on the rise for a while. I argue that economic history and economic theory both provide ample grounds for anticipating that advanced stages of economic globalization would produce a political backlash. While the backlash may have...

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The Economic and Social Outcomes of Refugees in the United States : Evidence from the Acs

Evans, William N. - 2017

Using data from the 2010-2014 American Community Survey, we use a procedure suggested by Capps et al. (2015) to identify refugees from the larger group of immigrants to examine the outcomes of refugees relocated to the U.S. Among young adults, we show that refugees that enter the U.S. before age...

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The Labor Market Effects of Refugee Waves : Reconciling Conflicting Results

Clemens, Michael A. - 2017

composition in subsamples of the Current Population Survey extracts. This compositional change is specific to Miami, unrelated to …

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Modeling Uncertainty in Climate Change : A Multi-Model Comparison

Gillingham, Kenneth - 2015

using multiple integrated assessment models. The study looks at model and parametric uncertainties for population, total …

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