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What Determines Immigrations' Impact? Comparing Two Global Centuries

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

links between these economic relationships and immigration policy. It concludes with an explanation for the apparent … difference in immigration's impact in the two global centuries, and thus on policy. …

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A Dual Policy Paradox: Why Have Trade and Immigration Policies Always Differed in Labour-Scarce Economies?

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

opposite, open immigration and closed trade policies. Why the inverse policy correlation, and why has it persisted for almost … two centuries? This paper seeks answers to this dual policy paradox by exploring the fundamentals which have influenced … the evolution of policy: the decline in the costs of migration and its impact on immigrant selectivity, a secular switch …

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The Output Cost of Gender Discrimination: A Model-Based Macroeconomic Estimate

Cavalcanti, Tiago; Tavares, José - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

discrimination are indeed quite substantial and should be a central concern in any macroeconomic policy aimed at increasing output …

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Equilibrium Allele Distribution in Trading Populations

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper derives the conditions under which fitness-reducing alleles can survive in a long-run stationary equilibrium for a trading population, extending the results in Saint-Paul (2002) for arbitrary systems of sexual reproduction.

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Marriage and Education in Australia: Decomposing the Enrolment and Human Capital Effects

Worner, Shane Mathew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2007

Using the first two waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey, this paper explores the relationship between educational attainment and age at first marriage. Theory suggests that there are two effects driving the relationship, namely the Enrolment effect and...

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Birth Order Matters: The Effect of Family Size and Birth Order on Educational Attainment

Booth, Alison; Kee, Hiau Joo - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

We use unique retrospective family background data from the 2003 wave of the British Household Panel Survey to explore the degree to which family size and birth order affect a child’s subsequent educational attainment. Theory suggests a trade off between child quantity and ‘quality’....

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The Asset Portfolios of Native-born and Foreign-born Households

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hildebrand, Vincent A. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008

This paper analyses the net worth and asset portfolios of native- and foreign-born Australian families using HILDA (wave 2) data. Specifically, we estimate a system of asset equations with an adding-up constraint imposed to control for variation in households’ total net worth. Our results...

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Vanishing Third World Emigrants?

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper documents a stylized fact not well appreciated in the literature. The Third World has been undergoing an emigration life cycle since the 1960s, and, except for Africa, emigration rates have been level or even declining since a peak in the late 1980s the early 1990s. The current...

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The Dynamic Fiscal Effects of Demographic Shift: The Case of Australia

Kudrna, George; Tran, Chung; Wooland, Alan - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2014

In this paper we develop a small open economy, overlapping generations (OLG) model that incorporates non-stationary demographic transition paths to study the dynamic fiscal effects of demographic shift in Australia. Our main results are summarised as follows. First, the demographic shifts...

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Partner Choice and the Marital College Premium: Analyzing Marital Patterns Over Several Decades

Chiappori, Pierre-André; Salanié, Bernard; Weiss, Yoram - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We construct a structural model of household decision-making and matching and estimate the returns to schooling within marriage. We consider agents with idiosyn- cratic preferences for marriage that may be correlated with education, and we allow the education levels of spouses to interact in...

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