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The article is concerned with understanding the impact of social preferences and wealth inequality on aggregate economic outcomes. We investigate how different manifestations of other-regarding preferences affect incentive contracts at the microeconomic level and how these in turn translate into...
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the welfare effects of pollution abatement technology transfer in a two …. Keywords: Environment; Pollution; Technology transfer; Pareto-improving transfer JEL classi?cation: D62; F18; O39 …
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A unilateral tax on CO2 emissions may drive up indirect carbon imports from non-committed countries, leading to carbon leakage. Using a gravity model of carbon trade, we analyze the effect of the Kyoto Protocol on the carbon content of bilateral trade. We construct a novel data set of CO2...
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In the process of European integration, regions close to a border are especially affected by labour market liberalisation. Using data from the IAB employment subsample (IABS) and the employment register (BeH) for the period before and after the opening of the border (1980-2001) I shed light on...
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on natives and immigrants. The model reveals that high migration flows and high skill-transferability are mutually … Federation. We study in how far and in what way the European public policy behind the Bologna and the Lisbon Process can …
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, regional policy, optimal agglomeration, welfare …This paper studies the social desirability of agglomeration and the efficiency arguments for regional policy in a … of agglomeration. An important implication of this result is that, on efficiency grounds, regional policy should foster …
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In this study we use data on subjective well being and migration in Cuenca, one of the Ecuador's largest cities. We … examine the impact of migration on the happiness of the family left behind. We use the propensity score matching estimator to … take into account the endogeneity of migration. Our results indicate that migration reduces the happiness of those left …
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The surge of maritime piracy in the Gulf of Aden is often related to lawlessness and poverty in Somalia. We set up a simple model to describe the choice of becoming a pirate in a setting with an industrialized and a developing country which both engage in fishing in the same waters. As a result...
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invented anew by transnational migration networks in a globalized world. There is no evidence of the supposed superiority of … adaptés et inventés de nouveau par les réseaux de la migration transnationale dans un monde globalisé. Il n'y a aucune preuve …
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Hungary. The survey was designed to identify migration and cross-border commuting intentions in these four countries and is … estimating migrants' reservation wages after migration. The theoretical and empirical models in this paper show that …
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