In this paper, we propose a theoretical model to study the effect of income insecurity of parents and offspring on the child’s residential choice. Parents are partially altruistic toward their childrenand will provide financial help to an independent child when her income is low relative to...

The purpose of this paper is to test whether a Marginal Employment Subsidy program (MES) is effective in reducing the length of unemployment spells. Our test is constructed in such a way as to isolate the direct effect of the MES from the business cycle effect (i.e. the variation in unemployment...

De acuerdo con argumentos neoclásicos, la inmigración, como fuente de crecimiento de la población, se ha visto tradicionalmente asociada con efectos negativos sobre la renta per cápita y el crecimiento en los países receptores. En este trabajo se analiza la forma en que dichos efectos...