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Political economy of redistribution between traditional and modern families

Meier, Volker; Rablen, Matthew D. - 2019

We analyse a model in which families may either be “traditional” single-earner with caring for the child at home or “modern” double-earner households using market child care. Family policies may favour either the one or the other group, like market care subsidies vs. cash for care....

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Not always for richer or poorer : the effects of income shocks and house price changes on marital dissolution

Brown, Heather W.; Battu, Harminder; Costa-Gomes, Miguel A. - 2013

in house prices at the regional level impact on the likelihood of divorce. We use information from 18 waves (1991 … tenure show a small positive significant increase in the likelihood of divorce for couples in mortgaged property and private … with mortgages may increase the pay-offs for divorce reducing the returns to remaining in the current partnership. For …

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Space-time dynamics of fertility and commuting

Kotyrlo, Elena S. - 2014

fertility and commuting, is constructed on the base of a model of the demand for children, spatial stock-flow model, and a …The study contributes in analytical description of spatial diffusion of fertility, in particular, influenced by labour … market due to commuting, which, in turn, affects fertility. The analytical model, decomposing spatial interaction of …

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Innovation, decentralization, and planning in a multi-region model of Schumpeterian economic growth

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Nijkamp, Peter - 2014

We study innovation and the resulting Schumpeterian economic growth that this innovation gives rise to in a model with N heterogeneous regions. For each region i where i=1,...,N, our analysis leads to five findings. First, we define the balanced growth path (BGP) allocations and the equilibrium...

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Education and tax policies in the presence of informality

Tkhir, Anna-Mariia - 2021

I study the effect of refugees' protection status on labor market outcomes focusing on a recent cohort of Syrian and Iraqi refugees entering Germany between 2013 and 2016. My empirical analysis exploits a sudden and unpredictable change in the assessment of the Federal Agency responsible for...

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The geographic reach of knowledge spillovers : a functional regression approach with precise geo-referenced data

Eppelsheimer, Johann; Rust, Christoph - 2019

This paper applies functional regression to precise geo-coded register data to measure productivity spillovers from high-skilled workers. We use a smoothing splines estimator to model the spatial distribution of high-skilled workers as continuous curves. Our rich panel data allows us to address...

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Spatial mobility and wage profiles : the role of general and location specific human capital matching

Morkutė, Gintarė - 2016

While there is a wealth of literature dealing with the spatial nature of knowledge and its transferral, I argue that the underlying mechanisms have not been sufficiently understood. Existing research relating the geography of inflows to firm productivity does not adequately address firm and...

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