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Why Do Migrants Return to Poor Countries? Evidence From Philippine Migrants%u2019 Responses to Exchange Rate Shocks

Yang, Dean - 2006

This paper distinguishes between target-earnings and life-cycle motivations for return migration by examining how … earnings, favorable exchange rate shocks have the least effect on return migration, but lead to increases in household …

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Effects of Emigration on Rural Labor Markets

Akram, Agha Ali - 2017

Rural to urban migration is an integral part of the development process, but there is little evidence on how out-migration …) a decrease in the price of non-tradables like prepared food and tea. Seasonal migration subsidies not only generate …

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Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy : Evidence from the Mexican Bracero Exclusion

Clemens, Michael A. - 2017

There has been little rigorous evaluation of immigration barriers intended to improve domestic terms of employment by shrinking the workforce. We study one such barrier, a policy change that excluded almost half a million Mexican bracero seasonal agricultural workers from the United States....

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Expenditure Visibility and Consumer Behavior : New Evidence

Heffetz, Ori - 2018

Expenditure visibility--the extent to which a household's spending on a consumption category is noticeable to others--is measured in three new surveys, with ~3,000 telephone and online respondents. Visibility shows little change across time (ten years) and survey methods. Four different notions,...

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Life-Cycle Consumption Patterns at Older Ages in the US and the UK : Can Medical Expenditures Explain the Difference?

Banks, James - 2016

In this paper we document significantly steeper declines in nondurable expenditures in the UK compared to the US, in … ownership and expenses, levels and paths of health status, number of household members, and out-of -pocket medical expenditures …

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Consumer Spending During Unemployment : Positive and Normative Implications

Ganong, Peter - 2019

Using de-identified bank account data, we show that spending drops sharply at the large and predictable decrease in income arising from the exhaustion of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. We use the high-frequency response to a predictable income decline as a new test to distinguish between...

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What Really Happened to Consumption Inequality in the US?

Attanasio, Orazio - 2004

calendar quarters and consists of retrospectively collected information about monthly expenditures on durable and non …

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The Effect of Unconventional Fiscal Policy on Consumption Expenditure

D’Acunto, Francesco - 2016

Unconventional fiscal policy uses announcements of future increases in consumption taxes to generate inflation expectations and accelerate consumption expenditure. It is budget neutral and time consistent. We exploit a unique natural experiment for an empirical test of the effectiveness of...

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Consumption Dynamics During Recessions

Berger, David - 2014

expenditures respond more sluggishly to economic shocks during recessions because microeconomic frictions lead to declines in the …

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Deconstructing Lifecycle Expenditure

Aguiar, Mark - 2008

In this paper we revisit two well-known facts regarding lifecycle expenditures. The first is the familiar "hump" shaped … lifecycle profile of nondurable expenditures. We document that the behavior of total nondurables masks surprising heterogeneity … in the lifecycle profile of individual sub-components. We find, for example, that while food expenditures decline after …

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