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Why are the Elderly more Averse to Immigration When They are More Likely to Benefit? : Evidence across Countries
Schotte, Simone - 2016
Using household surveys for 24 countries over a 10-year period, this paper investigates why the elderly are more averse to open immigration policies than their younger peers. The analysis finds that the negative correlation between age and pro-immigration attitudes is mostly explained by a...
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What Are the Effects of Expanding a Social Pension Program on Extreme Poverty and Labor Supply? : Evidence from Mexico's Pension Program for the Elderly
Avila-Parra, Clemente - 2017
In 2013, Mexico's Social Pension Program for the Elderly was expanded by changing its eligibility threshold from age 70 … to age 65. Using pooled cross-sectional data from Mexico's National Household Income and Expenditure Survey, the …-experimental methods, results show that the expansion of Mexico's Social Pension Program for the Elderly not only reduced the probability …
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The effect of immigrant concentration at school on natives’ achievement : does length of stay in the host country matter?
Bossavie, Laurent - 2018
Using a rich data set of primary school students, this paper estimates the effects of immigrant concentration in the classroom on the academic achievement of natives. In contrast with previous contributions, it exploits rare information on age-at-migration to estimate separate spillover effects...
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Do immigrants push natives towards safer jobs? : exposure to COVID-19 in the European Union
Bossavie, Laurent; Garrote Sanchez, Daniel; Makovec, Mattia - 2020
to control for potential unobservable factors that would lead migrants to self-select into more vulnerable occupations …
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Shoring up economic refugees : Venezuelan migrants in the Ecuadoran labor market
Olivieri, Sergio; Ortega, Francesc; Rivadeneira, Ana; … - 2020
, hosting around 10 percent of them. Little is known about the characteristics of these migrants and their labor market outcomes …
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Tracing the local impacts of exports on poverty and inequality in Mexico
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Vazquez, Emmanuel; … - 2020
Evidence on the effect of exports on welfare at the local level is scarce. Using a unique data set of international trade and poverty maps for almost 2,000 Mexican municipalities between 2004 and 2014, the study presented in this paper provides new evidence on the impact of a significant rise in...
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Tracking Wage Inequality Trends with Prices and Different Trade Models : Evidence from Mexico
Halliday, Timothy - 2015
Mexican wage inequality rose following Mexicos accession to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/World Trade Organization in 1986. Since the mid-1990s, however, wage inequality has been falling. Since most trade models suggest that output prices can affect factor prices, this paper...
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Performance and challenges of the income protection system for older people in Ecuador
Apella, Ignacio - 2019
The purpose of this work is to analyze the performance of the Ecuadorian pension system, its challenges, and available policy options. Therefore, the study analyzes coverage, financing sufficiency, and sustainability indicators that were created based on information from the Encuesta Nacional de...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114005
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When We're Sixty-Four : Opportunities and Challenges for Public Policies in a Population-Aging Context in Latin America
Rofman, Rafael - 2020
Latin American countries are in the midst of a demographic transition and, as a consequence, a population-aging process. Over the next few decades, the number of children will decline relative to the number of older adults. Population aging is the result of a slow but sustained reduction in...
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Qualitative Assessment of Health Equity among the Elderly People in Thailand : Utilization and Financial Protection
World Bank Group - 2015
Thailand has succeeded in expanding coverage of publicly-funded and publicly-managed health insurance schemes, following the introduction of universal health coverage policy in 2001. While Thailand's achievement of universal health coverage (UC) is well noted, recent researches and studies have...
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