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Integrating information for the purpose of articulating social protection policies is hard work. It takes from political will, to capacity for institutional cooperation, to software development and direct communication channels with citizens. Because of that complexity, countries that pursue...
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This paper proposes an extension of the collective model for labor supply developed by Chiappori, Fortin and Lacroix (2002) to an intertemporal setting. We first develop a theoretical model to analyze the intra-household distribution of wealth in a multi-period framework, with a focus on labor...
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consumption function and the demand for money, not to mention monetary history, which helped to undermine the post World War 2 …
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We use a new panel dataset of credit card accounts to analyze how consumers responded to the 2001 federal income tax rebates. We estimate the monthly response of credit card payments, spending, and debt, exploiting the unique, randomized timing of the rebate disbursement. We find that on average...
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encourage consumption, effecting over 100 million consumers. We use a unique dataset of credit cards transaction to study the …
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Using a unique administrative level dataset from a large and diverse U.S. financial institution, we test the impact of rewards on credit card spending and debt. Specifically, we study the impact of cash-back rewards on individuals before and during their enrollment in the program. We find that...
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This paper proposes that Green HRM can meet its full potential only by considering employees in their twofold role as producers and consumers. Employees learn different kinds of behaviour not exclusively at the workplace, but also in private life. Since reciprocal interactions between working...
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) and consumption poverty. Our results show that the two measures assign similar poverty status to about 52 percent of …, we find that household size matters in consumption poverty while we do not find significant effects on multidimensional … poverty. Amongst the shocks, drought shock is found to affect consumption poverty but not multidimensional poverty. This …
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This paper describes the transmission of income inequality into consumption inequality and in so doing investigates the … degree of insurance to income shocks. It combines panel data on income from the PSID with consumption data from repeated CEX … found to play an important role in insuring permanent shocks. Adding durable expenditures to the consumption measure …
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