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Aging and immigration policy in a representative democracy
Calahorrano, Lena - 2010
This paper analyzes how population aging affects immigration policy in rich industrialized countries. It sets up a two …-period model of a representative democracy with two overlapping generations. The government’s preferred immigration rate increases … with the immigrants. -- Demographic Change ; Political Economy ; Immigration Policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003963089
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Chapter 25 The political economy of intergenerational cooperation
Cigno, Alessandro - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1505-1558). 2006
-best policy include a pension and a child benefit scheme. Section 6 rexamines the same issues in the presence of educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023653
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Environmental decentralization and political centralization
Fredriksson, Per; Wollscheid, Jim R. - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 107 (2014), pp. 402-410
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280230
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An extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition to a Continuum of Comparison Groups
Ñopo, Hugo (contributor) - 2007
This paper proposes an extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition from two to a continuum of comparison groups. The proposed decomposition is then estimated for the case of racial wage differences in urban Peru, exploiting a novel data set that allows the capturing of mestizaje (racial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003776325
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Extremism within the family
Epstein, Gil S. (contributor) - 2006
This paper considers an economic analysis of intergenerational transition of ethnic and social trait. We consider the level of social traits chosen by parents and its effect on their children's choice of ethnic and social traits when reaching adulthood. We develop a theory that suggests that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003344609
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The demographic transition : causes and consequences
Galor, Oded - 2010
This paper develops the theoretical foundations and the testable implications of the various mechanisms that have been proposed as possible triggers for the demographic transition. Moreover, it examines the empirical validity of each of the theories and their significance for the understanding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008669192
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Choices which change life satisfaction : revising SWB theory to account for change
Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2010
Using data from the long-running German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984-2008, this paper analyses the effects of individual preferences and choices on subjective well-being (SWB). It is shown that preferences and choices relating to life goals/values, partner's personality, hours of work,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003971047
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Choices which change life satisfaction : similar results for Australia, Britain and Germany
Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2011
Using data from national socio-economic panel surveys in Australia, Britain and Germany, this paper analyzes the effects of individual preferences and choices on subjective well-being (SWB). It is shown that, in all three countries, preferences and choices relating to life goals/values,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008859059
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Earnings over the lifecycle : the Mincer earnings function and its applications
Polachek, Solomon W. (contributor) - 2007
In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings are distributed across the population. In the years since Mincer's seminal work, he as well as his students and colleagues extended the original human capital model, reaching important conclusions about a whole array...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003586565
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Job insecurity and youth emancipation : a theoretical approach
Becker, Sascha O.; Bentolila, Samuel; Fernandes, Ana; … - 2005
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 children and will provide financial help to an independent child when her income is low relative to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003300003