Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 588
Cover Image
Urban public works in spatial equilibrium: Experimental evidence from Ethiopia
Franklin, Simon; Imbertand, Clément; Abebe, Girum; … - 2023
This paper evaluates a large urban public works program randomly rolled out across neighborhoods of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. We find that the program increased public employment and reduced private labor supply among beneficiaries and improved local amenities in treated locations. We then combine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480361
Cover Image
Why does the amount of income redistribution differ between United States and Europe? The Janus face of Switzerland
Akkoyunlu, Sule; Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2009
In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is compared and empirically related to economic, political, and behavioral determinants elaborated in the literature. Lying in between the two poles, Switzerland provides unique evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315581
Cover Image
Immigration and crime in early 20th century America
Moehling, Carolyn; Piehl, Anne Morrison - 2007
lower rates of involvement in criminal activity than natives. The earliest studies of immigration and crime conducted at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266333
Cover Image
Do Consumers Gamble to Convexify?
Crossley, Thomas F.; Low, Hamish; Smith, Sarah - 2013
The combination of credit constraints and indivisible consumption goods may induce some risk-averse individuals to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500250
Cover Image
Management of a capital stock by Strotz's naive planner
Tyson, Christopher J. - 2007
The capital management problem posed by R. H. Strotz is analyzed for the case of the naive planner who fails to anticipate changes in his own preferences. By imposing progressively stronger restrictions on the primitives of the problem - namely, the discounting function, the utility index...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284143
Cover Image
Remittances and the brain drain revisited: The microdata show that more educated migrants remit more
Bollard, Albert; Morten, Melanie; Rapoport, Hillel - 2009
large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross … than characteristics of their family situations explains much of the higher remittances. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335976
Cover Image
Remittances, migrants' education and immigration policy: Theory and evidence from bilateral data
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - 2011
between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …, suggesting that immigration policies determine the sign and magnitude of the relationship between remittances and migrants …We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336074
Cover Image
Migration, transfers and child labor
Dimova, Ralitza; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2015
the hypothesis that both emigration and remittances reduce child labor. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011460733
Cover Image
The impact of immigration on the wage distribution in Switzerland
Favre, Sandro - 2011
low skill occupations. Basic economic theory thus suggests that immigration has led to a compression of the wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316922
Cover Image
Immigration and Majority Voting on Income Redistriubtion - Is there a Case for Opposition from Natives?
Mayr, Karin - 2003
This paper examines the effect of immigration on the level of income redistribution via majority voting on the income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294599