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Life expectancy and economic growth: the role of the demographic transition

Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2009

the role of the econometric specification. We present a simple theory of the economic and demographic transition where … individuals' education and fertility decisions depend on their life expectancy. The theory predicts that before the demographic …

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Supply theory sans profit-maximization

Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2009

predictive content of the traditional theory of competitive supply. A number of key results in the deterministic theory follow as … predictive content of the classical theory of competitive firm behavior from its a priori roots in profit maximization, while … subsuming the traditional theory as a special case. …

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Employment and exchange rates: the role of openness and technology

Alexandre, Fernando; Bação, Pedro; Cerejeira, João; … - 2009

. Economic theory suggests that the impact of exchange rates should vary with the degree of exposure to international competition …

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Do targeted hiring subsidies and profiling techniques reduce unemployment?

Jahn, Elke J.; Wagner, Thomas - 2008

To reduce unemployment targeted hiring subsidies for long-term unemployed are often recommended. To explore their effect on employment and wages, we devise a model with two types of unemployed and two methods of search, a public employment service (PES) and random search. The eligibility of a...

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Imposing economic constraints in nonparametric regression: survey, implementation and extension

Henderson, Daniel J.; Parmeter, Christopher F. - 2009

Economic conditions such as convexity, homogeneity, homotheticity, and monotonicity are all important assumptions or consequences of assumptions of economic functionals to be estimated. Recent research has seen a renewed interest in imposing constraints in nonparametric regression. We survey the...

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Efficiency in a search and matching model with endogenous participation

Albrecht, James; Navarro, Lucas; Vroman, Susan - 2009

We show that in a search/matching model with endogenous participation in which workers are heterogeneous with respect to market productivity, satisfying the Hosios rule leads to excessive vacancy creation. The reason is that the marginal worker does not internalize the effect of his or her...

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A model of overconfidence

Weinberg, Bruce A. - 2009

People use information about their ability to choose tasks. If more challenging tasks provide more accurate information about ability, people who care about and who are risk averse over their perception of their own ability will choose tasks that are not sufficiently challenging. Overestimation...

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Optimal family policy in the presence of moral hazard, when the quantity and quality of children are stochastic

Cigno, Alessandro; Luporini, Annalisa - 2009

We examine the second-best family policy under the assumption that both the number and the future earning capacities of the children born to a couple are random variables with probability distributions conditional on unobservable parental actions. Potential parents take their decisions without...

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Why pay taxes when no one else does?

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2009

present a model which incorporates elements from the theory of information cascades with the standard model of tax evasion and …

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Search and offshoring in the presence of animal spirits

Mitra, Devashish; Ranjan, Priya - 2009

In this paper, we introduce two sources of unemployment in a two-factor general equilibrium model: search frictions and fairness considerations. We find that a binding fair-wage constraint increases the unskilled unemployment rate and can at the same time lead to a higher unemployment rate for...

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