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Does the Labor Market Structure Explain Differences in Poverty in Rural Punjab?

Amjad, Rashid; Arif, G. M.; Mustafa, Usman - In: Lahore Journal of Economics 13 (2008) Special Edition, pp. 139-162

The main focus of this study is Rural Punjab and it contributes to regional poverty research in two ways; first, using a more recent household survey data, carried out in August 2007 by the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE), it provides fresh poverty estimates for the rural...

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Does Money Buy Me Love? Testing Alternative Measures of National Wellbeing

Grimes, Arthur; Oxley, les; Tarrant, Nicholas - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2012

Many aggregate measures of wellbeing and sustainability exist to guide policy-makers. However, the power of these aggregate measures to predict objective wellbeing outcomes has received little comparative testing. We compile and compare a range of aggregate wellbeing measures including: material...

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The Effect of Income and Immigration Policies on International Migration

Peri, Giovanni; Ortega, Francesc - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

the period 1980-2006. We also collect data on time-varying immigration policies that regulate the entry of immigrants in …

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The Resilience of Dutch Regions to Economic Shocks. Measuring the relevance of interactions among firms and workers.

Diodato, Dario; Weterings, Anet - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2012

Although increasing attention is paid to the resilience of regions to economic shocks, theoretical and empirical insights in the determinants of regional resilience are still limited. This paper aims to make a first step in quantifying regional resilience. Using a model, we explore how three...

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The Pay-As-You-Go Pension System as a Fertility Insurance and Enforcement Device

Sinn, Hans-Werner - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1998

It is argued that a PAYGO system may have useful allocative functions in that it serves as an insurance against not having children and as an enforcement device for rotten kid' who are unwilling to pay their parents a pension. It is true that the system has amoral hazard effect in terms of...

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Historical Perspectives on the Economic Consequences of Immigration into the United States

Carter, Susan B.; Sutch, Richard - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997

historical studies and the recent literature on the impacts" of immigration is the propensity of the current literature to … direct" competition. Economic historians writing about the earlier period of high immigration went" beyond the first …-round effects. Taking a long-run perspective, they identified many aspects of" the mass immigration that were beneficial from the …

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Immigrants and Natives: Comparative Economic Performance in the U.S., 1850-60 and 1965-80

Ferrie, Joseph P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996

Immigrants who arrived in the U.S. before the Civil War were less likely to reside in locations with high immigrant concentrations as their time in the U.S. increased. This is contrary to the experience of recent immigrants who show no decrease in concentration after arrival. The reduced...

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The King Never Emigrates: Political Culture and the Reluctant International Movement of People

Epstein, Gil S; Hillman, Arye L.; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

We consider a country where a king assigns benefits in accordance with privilege determined by the population’s proximity to the throne. People have different relative advantages in seeking privilege and in productive activity. The nature of the contest for privilege determines whether, in...

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Travail et citoyennete: de la modernite a la postmodernite. L'experience americaine.

Bischoff, M. - Quebec a Hull - Relations industrielles - 1998

A partir des principes universalistes de la liberte et de l'egalite formelle des individus, la modernite institue une forme inedite de democratie fondee sur la double valeur de la citoyennete et du travail. Elle inaugure ainsi une dynamique a la fois d'elargissement et de concretisation des...

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Time Preference and Factor Mobility in an OLG Model with Land.

Crettez, B; Michell, P; Vidal, J-P - Association of Southern European Economic Theorists - ASSET - 1997

This paper examines the pattern of capital mobility in a two-country overlapping generations world in which production uses three inputs capital, labor and land. The steady-state welfare consequences of opening countries to financial capital or labor mobility are then compared. In particular, it...

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