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We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search frictions, wage bargaining, and a redistributive welfare state. Our quantitative analysis suggests that, in all 20 countries studied, immigration attenuates the effects of...
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We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search frictions, wage bargaining, and a redistributive welfare state. Our quantitative analysis suggests that, in all 20 countries studied, immigration attenuates the effects of...
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higher education, measured by students enrolled in tertiary education as a share of the working-age population. Based on a … theoretical model, we hypothesize that military draft has a negative effect on education. Empirically, we confirm this for the … in higher education. -- Conscription ; human capital …
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higher education, measured by students enrolled in tertiary education as a share of the working-age population. Based on a … theoretical model, we hypothesize that military draft has a negative effect on education. Empirically, we confirm this for the … in higher education. -- conscription ; human capital …
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Economic theory predicts that military conscription is associated with static inefficiencies as well as with dynamic distortions of the accumulation of human and physical capital. Relative to an economy with an all-volunteer force, output levels and growth rates should be lower in countries that...
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