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Scholars emphasize that poverty in Britain has risen sharply since the late 1970s. Meanwhile in the United States, both official figures and traditional poverty scholars report sharp declines in poverty. We seek to provide a comparison of poverty levels in Britain and the US based on a set of...
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The extent to which households can self-insure depends on family structure and wage risk. We calibrate a model of couples and singles’ savings and labor supply under two types of wage processes. The first wage process is the canonical—age independent, linear—one that is typically used to...
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This paper analyzes the effects of the legal rules governing transnational bankruptcies. We compare a regime of territoriality' -- in which assets are adjudicated by the jurisdiction in which they are located at the time of the bankruptcy -- with a regime of universality are adjudicated in a...
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A common claim in debates about globalization is that economic integration increases worker insecurity. Although this …
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that the growth and increasing globalization of these economies might indeed have been 'finance-led.' …
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globalization along three dimensions: depth, breadth and persistence. We examine depth by studying whether a bank's preference for … country or nationalized banks from different countries, consistent with an impact on the breadth of globalization. Third, we … government interventions affect the depth and breadth of banking globalization, but may not persist after public interventions …
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globalization. Equality is a luxury good. Countries with more inequality, higher financial development, and trade deficits are more …
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In contemporary America, racial gaps in achievement are primarily due to gaps in skills. Skill gaps emerge early before children enter school. Families are major producers of those skills. Inequality in performance in school is strongly linked to inequality in family environments. Schools do...
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This paper tests the differential effects of the generosity of the welfare state under free migration and under policy-controlled migration, distinguishing between source developing and developed countries. We utilize free-movement within the EU to examine the free migration regime and compare...
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Exploiting variation in welfare reform across states and over time and using relevant comparison groups, this study estimates the effects of welfare reform on an important source of human capital acquisition among women at risk for relying on welfare: vocational education and training. The...
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