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Gendered taxes : the interaction of tax policy with gender equality

Coelho, Maria; Davis, Aieshwarya; Klemm, Alexander; … - 2022

This paper provides an overview of the relation between tax policy and gender equality, covering labor, capital and wealth, as well as consumption taxes. It considers implicit and explicit gender biases and corrective taxation. On labor taxes, we discuss the well-established findings on female...

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Does Spousal Labor Smooth Fluctuations in Husbands' Earnings? : The Role of Liquidity Constraints

Garcia-Escribano, Mercedes - 2004

This paper theoretically and empirically investigates the role of spousal labor in buffering transitory shocks to husbands'' earnings. To measure the amount of the shock that spousal labor absorbs, an instrumented cross-sectional variance decomposition is developed. Using data from the Panel...

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The labor market integration of migrants in Europe : new evidence from micro data

Ho, Giang; Turk Ariss, Rima - 2018

This paper presents novel empirical evidence on the labor market integration of migrants across Europe. It investigates … how successfully migrants integrate in 13 European countries by applying a unified framework to analyze a rich micro … substantial heterogeneity in the patterns of labor market integration across host countries and by migrant gender and origin. Our …

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Why U.S. immigration matters for the global advancement of science

Agarwal, Ruchir; Ganguli, Ina; Gaulé, Patrick; Smith, Geoff - 2021

. First, among Nobel Prize winners and Fields Medalists, migrants to the U.S. play a central role in the global knowledge …-histories of International Math Olympiad (IMO) medalists, we show that migrants to the U.S. are up to six times more productive … than migrants to other countries-even after accounting for talent during one's teenage years. Third, financing costs are a …

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A quantitative analysis of female employment in Senegal

Malta, Vivian; Martínez Leyva, Angelica; Mendes … - 2019

Female-to-male employment in Senegal increased by 14 percentage points between 2006 and 2011. During the same period years of education of the working age population increased 27 percent for females and 13 percent for males, reducing gender gaps in education. In this paper, we quantitatively...

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Foreign Help Wanted : Easing Japan’s Labor Shortages

Ganelli, Giovanni - 2015

Data and anecdotal evidence suggest that Japan is suffering from labor shortages, which are large in an international perspective, have a negative impact on potential growth, and reduce the effectiveness of monetary and fiscal stimulus. This paper focuses on policy options to ease Japan’s...

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Employment Protection, International Specialization, and innovation

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 1996

We develop a model to analyze the implications of firing costs on incentives for R & D and international specialization. The key idea is that, to avoid paying firing costs, the country with a rigid labor market will tend to produce relatively secure goods, at a late stage of their product life...

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Dollar invoicing, global value chains, and the business cycle dynamics of international trade

Cook, David; Patel, Nikhil - 2022

Recent literature has highlighted that international trade is mostly priced in a few key vehicle currencies and is increasingly dominated by intermediate goods and global value chains (GVCs). Taking these features into account, this paper reexamines the relationship between monetary policy,...

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Exchange Rate Regimes and Location

Ricci, Luca Antonio - 1997

This paper investigates the effects of fixed versus flexible exchange rates on firms’ location choices and on countries’ specialization patterns. In a two-country, two-differentiated-goods monetary model, demand, supply, and monetary (as well as exchange rate) shocks arise after wages are...

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Intra-Industry Trade of Arab Countries : An Indicator of Potential Competitiveness

Kunzel, Peter - 1997

Recent and ongoing agreements to liberalize trade between the European Union (EU) and Arab countries raises the question as to how the latter will fare in a more competitive environment. This paper uses the Grubel-Lloyd intra-industry trade (IIT) index as an indicator of the degree of industrial...

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