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We develop a theoretical framework where the cross-sectional distributions of hours, earnings, wealth and consumption are determined jointly with a set of expenditure targets defining peer and aspirational pressure for members of different social classes. We show existence of a stationary...
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We carried out two multinational surveys to analyze aspirations and intentions to emigrate, and how these are linked to … identify two groups that have been largely neglected in previous research on migration aspirations and intentions: those who … intend to migrate permanently without aspirations to do so and those who intend to migrate temporarily. Analyzing main …
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half-day workshop designed to support adolescents in developing occupational aspirations increased educational investments … a simple model that explains why an information intervention can affect educational aspirations and investments in …
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We relate tax evasion behavior to a substantial literature on self and social comparison in judgements. Tax payers engage in tax evasion as a means to boost their expected consumption relative to others in their "local" social network, and relative to past consumption. The unique Nash...
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competitors. Search engines played a critical role in this reallocation: fringe platforms saw a surge in traffic from search … in search: the leading platform became more aggressive towards copyright-infringing rivals, strategically using DMCA … filings to remove competing content from search results. Our findings highlight how asymmetric exposure to content moderation …
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We develop a three-stage model of abatement technology search, adoption, and deployment. Using this model, which draws … on search theory tools more frequently used in labour and monetary economics, we compare market-based and command …-and-control pollution control instruments with respect to the incentives each provides for abatement technology search and adoption …
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We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … in two thirds of countries, contrary to what models without search frictions predict. Average total gains from …
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This paper describes a search model with a continuum of workerand job types, transferable utility and an increasing … benefitscan reduce the loss by serving as a search subsidy. The loss caused by search frictions is higher when worker types are …
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This paper analyzes the design of optimal unemployment insurance in a search equilibrium framework where search e …¤ort among the unemployed is not perfectly observable. We examine to what extent the optimal policy involves monitoring of search … effort and benefit sanctions if observed search is deemed insufficient. We find that introducing monitoring and sanctions …
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The paper develops a two-sector general equilibrium search model where 'goods' are produced exclusively in the market …
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