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Using an intertemporal model of saving and capital accumulation with two types of agents (workers and capitalists) we demonstrate that it is impossible for any binding minimum wage to increase the after-tax incomes of workers if the production function is Cobb-Douglas with constant returns to...
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view (i.e., including human capital) of investment and saving. We find that the Feldstein-Horioka result is impervious to …
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of policy priority is derived. Efficient tax policy ranks investment in human capital higher than investment in nonhuman …
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results suggest that the correlation between investment and savings depends on institutions, exchange rate risk and credit …
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In this paper we examine the role of mortgage equity withdrawal in explaining the decline of the US saving rate, since when house prices rise and mortgage rates are low, homeowners have an incentive to withdraw housing equity and this may affect the saving rate. We estimate a Vector Error...
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We explore empirically how capital inflows into the US and financial deregulation within the United States interacted in driving the run-up (and subsequent decline) in US housing prices over the period 1990-2012. To obtain an ex ante measure of financial liberalization, we focus on the history...
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higher marriage rates and higher divorce rates will be associated with higher savings rates in the presence of economies of … marriage and with lower savings rates in the presence of diseconomies of marriage. In the context of traditional gender roles … traditional gender roles and marital status to understanding cross-country variation in gender differentials in savings behavior …
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generalized Keynes-Ramsey rule includes a precautionary savings term. A phase diagram analysis illustrates consumption and wealth …
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elasticity of the human capital investment function is strictly increasing …
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This paper analyzes optimal linear taxes on labor income and savings in a standard two-period life-cycle model with …
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