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Redistributive effects of different pension structures when longevity varies by socioeconomic status in a general equilibrium setting
Sanchez-Romero, Miguel; Lee, Ronald Demos; … - 2019
Differences in life expectancy between high and low socioeconomic groups are often large and have widened recently in many countries. Such longevity gaps affect the actuarial fairness and progressivity of public pension systems. However, behavioral responses to longevity and policy complicate...
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The cohort size-wage relationship in Europe
Moffat, John D.; Roth, Duncan - 2013 - Preliminary draft
is declining while that of the highly educated is rising. This study estimates the impact of cohort size on wages using … effect of cohort size on individual wages rather than on the average wage of a specific age-education group which allows … controlling for potentially confounding effects at the individual level. The effect of cohort size on male wages is identified …
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What is the value added by using causal machine learning methods in a welfare experiment evaluation?
Strittmatter, Anthony - 2019 - First Draft: September 17, 2018
I investigate causal machine learning (CML) methods to estimate effect heterogeneity by means of conditional average treatment effects (CATEs). In particular, I study whether the estimated effect heterogeneity can provide evidence for the theoretical labour supply predictions of Connecticut's...
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Cohort size and youth unemployment in Europe : a regional analysis
Moffat, John D.; Roth, Duncan - 2014
Will the projected decline in the youth share of European countries' populations alleviate the currently high levels of youth unemployment in Europe? Economic theory predicts that in the absence of perfectly competitive labour markets, changes in the relative size of age groups will cause...
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The impact of the American Civil War on city growth
Sanso-Navarro, Marcos; Sanz, Fernando; Vera-Cabello, Maria - 2011
This paper analyzes the persistence of the shock caused by the American Civil War on the relative city size distribution of the United States. Our fi ndings suggest that the effects of this shock were permanent, which sharply contrasts with previous results regarding World War II for Japanese...
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The effect of education on migration : evidence from school reform
Böckerman, Petri; Haapanen, Mika - 2010 - Preliminary first draft
In the 1990s polytechnic education reform took place in Finland, which gradually expanded higher education to all Finnish regions; the polytechnics constituted a new non-university sector in higher education. This reform is used to study the causal effect of education on the inter-regional...
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Demographic change, growth and agglomeration
Grafeneder-Weissteiner, Theresa - 2010 - Preliminary version
Recently, there has been wide interest in the "economics" of population aging. Demographic change has crucial consequences for economic behavior; it e.g. implies that consumption and investment decisions vary over the life-cycle. The latter has important implications for economic growth, whereas...
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The role of culture on self-employment
Marcén, Miriam - 2013
There is an extensive literature examining the determinants of self-employment. These studies have mainly failed to account for the differences in entrepreneurial spirit across countries. This paper explores the role of culture in self-employment by exploiting variation in historical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011711520
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Planning for the future : a land-use and transport interaction model for Switzerland : conference paper at 54th ERSA Congress, 26-29 August 2014
Bodenmann, Balz R.; Sanchez, Breogan; Bode, J.; Zeiler, … - 2014
Spatial and transport planners, authorities, real estate developers, investors, re-locating residents and businesses have different questions related to space and transport. These questions may concern specific land parcels, or cover a much larger area such as a city, a region, or even a whole...
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Migratory flows and their demographic and economic importance in the Romanian regions : an analysis with special reference to the North-East and South-East Regions
Pauna, Carmen Beatrice; Heins, Frank - 2012
The presentation intends to analyse population change in Romania after 1989 in a regional prospective. Absolute population change and the changes in the age structure as well as internal and international migrations are put into relation to the labour market changes. In the last two decades the...
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