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Sharing High Growth Across Generations: Pensions and Demographic Transition in China

Song, Zheng Michael; Storesletten, Kjetil; Wang, Yikai; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Intergenerational inequality and old-age poverty are salient issues in contemporary China. China's aging population threatens the fiscal sustainability of its pension system, a key vehicle for intergenerational redistribution. We analyze the positive and normative effects of alternative pension...

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Optimal Design of Earned Income Tax Credits: Evidence from a British Natural Experiment

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

With many countries considering the adoption of a system of earned income tax credits, it is useful to analyze how different types of credits affect labor supply and earnings. This paper focuses on a 1999 reform to the UK tax credit system, which increased the value of the credit and reduced the...

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Social Security and Migration in an Ageing Europe

von Hagen, Jürgen; Walz, Uwe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

labour mobility will increase as a result of greater European economic integration. We analyse the implications of migration …

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Ageing and Unemployment

Schmidt, Christoph M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

While ageing is accepted as a major problem for most industrialized societies, its labour market consequences are not yet fully understood. This paper analyses the effects of changes in the age composition of the Federal Republic of Germany on the incidence of unemployment in different sex-age...

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Does Raising the Retirement Age Increase Employment of Older Workers?

Staubli, Stefan; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper studies how an increase in the minimum retirement age affects the labor market behavior of older workers. Between 2000 and 2006 the Austrian government gradually increased the early retirement age from 60 to 62.2 for men and from 55 to 57.2 for women. Using administrative data on the...

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Why do People Stay? The Insider Advantages Approach: Empirical Evidence from Swedish Labour Markets

Fischer, Peter A; Holm, Einar; Malmberg, Gunnar; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

Migration research has been quite successful in explaining changes in migration flows. Less satisfactory are its …

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Migration and Economic Mobility in Tanzania: Evidence from a Tracking Survey

Beegle, Kathleen; De Weerdt, Joachim; Dercon, Stefan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This study explores to what extent migration has contributed to improved living standards of individuals in Tanzania …. Using a 13-year panel survey, the authors find that migration between 1991 and 2004 added 36 percentage points to … migration of some categories of people. …

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Migration and The Equilibrium Prevalence of Infectious Diseases

Mesnard, Alice; Seabright, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper models how migration both influences and responds to differences in disease prevalence between cities …, regions and countries, and show how the possibility of migration away from high-prevalence areas affects long-run steady state … disease prevalence. We develop a dynamic framework where both migration and prevention behaviour respond to the prevalence of …

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Rural–Urban Migration in Indonesia: Survey Design and Implementation

Resosudarmo, Budy P.; Yamauchi, Chikako; Effendi, Tadjuddin - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009

This paper summarizes the study design of the Rural–Urban Migration in China and Indonesia (RUMiCI) project. We first … identifying the migration status of each household in the sampling frame, using a presurvey listing. This is followed by a …

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Escaping Epidemics Through Migration? Quarantine Measures Under Asymmetric Information About Infection Risk.

Mesnard, Alice; Seabright, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

infection and can take migration decisions before their health status is publicly observable. In a 2-period model we study under … which conditions the presence of quarantine measures may lead to inefficient outcomes as individuals' interest in migration …

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