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significantly by gender. Men in households exposed to import competition respond by increasing labour force participation at older …
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We study the impact of Chinese import competition in the 2000s on workers and their households in England and Wales. We …
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significantly by gender. Men in households exposed to import competition respond by increasing labour force participation at older …
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This paper investigates the impact of a surging housing market on marital sorting. To cover the increasingly large down payments required in China today, both spouses' parents have to hand over their resources to support the couple in purchasing a new home. The incentive to extend credit to make...
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discontinuity analysis. Our findings suggest that housing market distress distorts labor market outcomes by impeding households …
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The hedonics literature has often asserted that if one were able to observe the same individual make multiple purchase decisions, one could recover rich estimates of preferences for a given amenity. In particular, in the face of a changing price schedule, observing each individual twice is...
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As an immobile, durable and heterogonous good, each housing unit has a bundle of different characteristics. Hedonic price method, which depends on the consumer theory of the classical economics, implies that each characteristic of heterogeneous goods provides a different level of satisfaction or...
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, housing tenue, income and wealth. Within couple households, housing mobility choices are primarily influenced by the wife …
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Many theories of residential mobility contend that individuals express a sequence of moving desires, intentions and expectations prior to moving. Much research has investigated how individuals form these pre-move thoughts, with a largely separate literature examining actual mobility. Only a few...
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Gasoline prices influence where households decide to locate by changing the cost of commuting. Consequently, the …
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