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From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years : An Economic Model of the Rise in Premarital Sex and its De-Stigmatization

Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús - 2010

Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such as time and effort. Parents weigh the marginal gains from socialization against its costs. Those at the lower end of the socioeconomic scale indoctrinate their daughters less...

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Beyond the DSGE Straitjacket

Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2011

Academic macroeconomics and the research department of central banks have come to be dominated by Dynamic, Stochastic, General Equilibrium (DSGE) models based on micro-foundations of optimising representative agents with rational expectations. We argue that the dominance of this particular sort...

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Economics and Epidemics : Evidence from an Estimated Spatial Econ-Sir Model

Bognanni, Mark; Hanley, Douglas; Kolliner, Daniel; … - 2021

Economic analysis of effective policies for managing epidemics requires an integrated economic and epidemiological approach. We develop and estimate a spatial, micro-founded model of the joint evolution of economic variables and the spread of an epidemic. We empirically discipline the model...

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The Labour Market Position of Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands : Reason for Migration, Naturalisation and Language Proficiency

Euwals, Rob; Dagevos, Jaco; Gijsberts, Mérove; … - 2007

). First, we find that educational attainment and language proficiency have a higher return in the Netherlands than in Germany …, while for Germany we find a negative relation with tenured employment. The contrasting results on tenured employment may be … explained partly by differences in immigration rules. In Germany economic self-reliance is more important than in the …

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Benefit-Entitlement Effects and the Duration of Unemployment : An Ex-Ante Evaluation of Recent Labour Market Reforms in Germany

Schmitz, Hendrik; Steiner, Viktor - 2007

system on the duration of unemployment in Germany on the basis of a flexible discrete-time hazard rate model estimated on pre …

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Immigration, Integration and the Labour Market : Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands

Euwals, Rob; Dagevos, Jaco; Gijsberts, Mérove; … - 2007

Germany and the Netherlands. We compare labour market outcomes of Turkish immigrants, including both the first and second … large for Germany. Differences in past immigration policies between Germany and the Netherlands are likely to be important …

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The Heterogeneity and Cyclical Sensitivity of Unemployment : An Exploration of German Labor Market Flows

Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2008

individual-level data for West Germany for the period 1983 to 1994, this paper explores both the demographic heterogeneity of …

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Proxying Economic Activity with Daytime Satellite Imagery : Filling Data Gaps Across Time and Space

Lehnert, Patrick; Niederberger, Michael; … - 2022

Germany, where East German data on economic activity are unavailable for detailed regional levels and historical time series …

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Exposure to Past Immigration Waves and Attitudes Toward Newcomers

Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - 2022

How does previous exposure to massive immigrant inflows affect concerns about current immigration and the integration of refugees? To answer this question, we investigate attitudes toward newcomers among natives and previous immigrants. In areas that in the 1990s received higher inflows of...

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The German Model of Industrial Relations : Balancing Flexibility and Collective Action

Jäger, Simon; Noy, Shakked; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2022

pillars of the model: sectoral collective bargaining and firm-level codetermination. Relative to the United States, Germany …-level distributional conflict. Relative to other European countries, Germany makes it easy for employers to avoid coverage or use …

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