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Meeting the Mandate for Biofuels : Implications for Land Use, Food and Fuel Prices

Chen, Xiaoguang - 2015

Biofuel production is being promoted through various policies such as mandates and tax credits. This paper uses a dynamic, spatial, multi-market equilibrium model, Biofuel and Environmental Policy Analysis Model (BEPAM), to estimate the effects of these policies on cropland allocation, food and...

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Foreign-Owned Land

Eaton, Jonathan - 2021

Land and capital serve not only as factors of production but as assets which households use as stores of value. Standard trade models typically recognize only the first role. In its role as an asset land reduces the amount of national savings available for capital investment. Foreign investment...

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Eliminating the Pass-Through : Towards FDI Statistics that Better Capture the Financial and Economic Linkages between Countries

Borga, Maria - 2018

FDI plays a central role in managing global production networks, but FDI statistics also reflect other factors, including tax avoidance, that make it difficult to differentiate between FDI for “long-term” investments that serves as a source of growth and FDI that is purely financial and has...

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Revisiting European Unemployment : Unemployment, Capital Accumulation, and Factor Prices

Blanchard, Olivier - 2000

This paper starts from two sets of facts about Continental Europe.The first is the steady increase in unemployment … of chronic excess employment by firms. The second explanation points to technological bias: firms in Continental Europe …

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The Economic Consequences of Parental Leave Mandates : Lessons from Europe

Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2022

This study investigates the economic consequences of parental leave mandates using data for 16 European countries over the 1969 through 1988 period. Since women use virtually all of the family leave in most nations, men constitute a reasonable comparison group and the natural experiment in most...

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Underemployment in the Us and Europe

Bell, David N. F. - 2018

Large numbers of part-time workers around the world, both those who choose to be part-time and those who are there involuntarily and would prefer a full-time job report they want more hours. Full-timers who say they want to change their hours mostly say they want to reduce them. When recession...

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Immigration, Jobs and Employment Protection : Evidence from Europe

D’Amuri, Francesco - 2011

In this paper we analyze the effect of immigrants on native jobs in fourteen Western European countries. We test whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational distribution of natives with similar education and age. We...

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Does European Unemployment Prop Up American Wages?

Davis, Donald R. - 2011

We consider trade between a flexible wage America and a rigid real wage Europe. In a benchmark case, a move from … level. Entry of the unskilled South to world markets raises unemployment in Europe. But Europe's commitment to the high wage …. Mitterand's Europe chooses a high minimum wage and Reagan's America chooses a flexible wage for the unskilled. Paradoxically …

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From Empty Pews to Empty Cradles : Fertility Decline Among European Catholics

Berman, Eli - 2012

Catholic countries of Europe pose a demographic puzzle -fertility is unprecedentedly low (total fertility=1.3) despite …

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Labor Regulations and European Private Equity

Bozkaya, Ant - 2014

into Europe. In this context, policy mechanisms are more important than the overall insurance level provided …

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