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income. The simulations indicate that the earnings forgone as a result of bearing and rearing two children can be decomposed …
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Failure in the training market may result from credit constraints and the inability to insure against labour income …
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Using the first two waves of the Vietnam Living Standards Survey, we investigate how a father’s temporary absence affects children left behind in terms of their school attendance, household expenditures on education, and nonhousework labor supply in the 1990s. The estimating subsample is...
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We explore the role of human capital investments in the location decisions of firms. We show that whether human capital investments act as a force for or against concentration depends on who is undertaking them and whether they are industry- or firm-specific. We also discuss the empirical...
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The Doha multilateral round of trade negotiations sponsored by the WTO has been dragging on for over a decade, with no end in sight. In this short paper we assess empirically what determines the duration of trade negotiations, focusing on the span between the start of trade talks and their...
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How do aggregate wealth-to-income ratios evolve in the long run and why? We address this question using 1970 … able to extend our analysis as far back as 1700. We find in every country a gradual rise of wealth-income ratios in recent … growth, in line with the β=s/g Harrod-Domar-Solow formula. That is, for a given net saving rate s= 10%, the long run wealth-income …
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Acemoglu, Johnson, Robinson and Yared (2008) document that the cross-country correlation between income per capita and … democracy disappears once including country fixed effects. This paper tests the hypothesis that the effect of income on … framework provides evidence for significant but heterogeneous effects of income on democracy for former colonies and non …
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inheritance. Wealth-income ratios, inherited wealth, and wealth inequalities were high in the 18th-19th centuries up untilWorldWar …-of-tax rate of return on wealth and g is the economy's growth rate. This suggests that current trends toward rising wealth-income …
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Using annual data from several sources, we study the evolution of M1, M2, income, prices and long and short interest … rates in Ireland over the period 1933-2012. We find cointegration and that prices, income and interest rates are weakly … relatively high income elasticity, and detect parameter instability. We estimate a short-run M2 demand function that passes a …
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International trade theory is a general-equilibrium discipline, yet most of the standard portfolio of research focuses … investigation into the relationship between a good's factor intensity in production and its income elasticity of demand in … and income elasticity of demand for several types of preferences, with and without accounting for trade costs and …
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