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In overlapping generations models with endogenous fertility wherein the retired partake of consumption but do not contribute to production (through their labor), fertility has a positive and a negative externality. These can be internalized through a child allowance (or tax) or a linkage between...
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An unfunded Social Security system faces the major risk, sometimes referred to as "political risk", that future generations modify or even suppress the contributions. In order to account properly for this risk, the paper considers a political process in which the support to the system is asked...
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An unfunded Social Security system faces a major risk, sometimes referred to as ‘political risk’. In order to account properly for this risk, the paper considers a political process in which the support to the system is asked from each newborn generation. The analysis is conducted in an...
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relationship between bubbles, economic growth, and unemployment. We show that the existence of bubbles is contingent upon the … equilibrium unemployment rate. Asset bubbles can (not) exist when unemployment is low (high), which leads to higher (lower …
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unemployment, which we calibrate on EU15 and US data. Labor market imperfections are found to significantly increase the volume of … to investigate how demographic asymmetries may have contributed to unemployment and welfare changes in the recent past …
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constant rate which is the higher, the lower are the labour tax rate and the unemployment rate. Both government Ponzi games and …, an increase in the debt-to-capital ratio is accompanied by higher taxes, a rise in unemployment and lower economic growth. …
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This paper develops an overlapping-generations model characterized by endogenous growth, unemployment, and pollution … unemployment benefits, and considers a replacement-ratio-neutral reform in whichthe environmental tax is devoted to cutting the … employees' rate of contribution to unemployment insurance. Under this reform, (i) the growth rate is increased, the unemployment …
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