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Earnings dynamics of immigrants and natives in Sweden 1985-2016
Friedrich, Benjamin; Laun, Lisa; Meghir, Costas - 2021
higher among foreign-born workers, reflecting weaker labor market attachment and high risk of large negative shocks for low-income … generosity and usage of benefit programs declined over time, we find stronger earnings growth among low-income workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012694689
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Earnings dynamics of immigrants and natives in Sweden 1985-2016
Friedrich, Benjamin; Laun, Lisa; Meghir, Costas - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 4, pp. 1803-1847
among foreign‐born workers, reflecting weaker labor market attachment and high risk of large negative shocks for low‐income … the generosity and usage of benefit programs declined over time, we find stronger earnings growth among low‐income workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014306326
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Crime and economic incentives
Machin, Stephen; Meghir, Costas - 2000 - September 2000 - This draft
We explore the role that economic incentives, particularly changes in wages at the bottom end of the wage distribution, play in determining crime rates. We use data on the police force areas of England and Wales between 1975 and 1996. We find that falls in the wages of unskilled workers leads to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011537688
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Crime and economic incentives
Machin, Stephen; Meghir, Costas - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 39 (2004) 4, pp. 958-979
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002455161
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Crime and economic incentives
Machin, Stephen; Meghir, Costas - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001537486
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Wage risk and employment risk over the life cycle
Low, Hamish (contributor); Meghir, Costas (contributor);  … - 2008
heterogeneity. Our model allows for four main social insurance programmes. In contrast to simpler models that attribute all income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755963
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Wage risk and employment risk over the life cycle
Low, Hamish; Meghir, Costas; Pistaferri, Luigi - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003837029
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Wage risk and employment risk over the life cycle
Low, Hamish; Meghir, Costas; Pistaferri, Luigi - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003444188
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Earnings, consumption and lifecycle choices
Meghir, Costas; Pistaferri, Luigi - 2010
choices over the life cycle. We start by analyzing the theoretical impact of income changes on consumption - highlighting the … contributions, distinguishing between papers that use only income data and those that use both income and consumption data. The … and identify the income process or the information set of the individuals. Second, one can assume that the income process …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003953272
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Wage risk and employment risk over the life cycle
Low, Hamish (contributor); Meghir, Costas (contributor);  … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003394279