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in the male cohorts. -- wage cut ; transitory income shock ; neonatal health ; selection in utero ; Romania …
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Religious leaders sometimes condemn progressive social norms. In this paper, I revisit David Hume's hypothesis that secular states can "bribe" churches into adopting less strict religious doctrines. The hypothesis is difficult to test due to reverse causality: more liberal theologies may attract...
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Czech unemployment rate has been one of the lowest in Europe. In this paper we provide a microperspective on the Czech … investigate the determinants of transitions between employment, unemployment, and non-participation. The paper consists of two … parts. The first part examines the Czech labour market with respect to unemployment and unemployment duration. In the second …
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The paper extends the basic Stiglitz (1982) model of optimal income taxation into general search equilibrium. When we …. Both marginal tax rates are of ambiguous sign. The tax systems' effects on the wage formation and the unemployment rates …
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that a decrease of say unemployment probability or an increase in unemployment insurance (UI) generosity affects saving not …
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Recent immigrants tend to locate in ethnic enclaves within metropolitan areas. The economic consequence of living in such enclaves is still an unresolved issue. We use an immigrant policy initiative in Sweden, when government authorities distributed refugee immigrants across locales in a way...
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. Our first main result is that the more the heir inherits, the lower her labor income becomes. This labor supply effect … transfer. Our second main result is that the more the heir inherits, the higher her capital income becomes. This savings effect … ; bequests ; windfall gains ; labor supply ; capital income ; uncertainty …
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This paper studies the impact of permanent and transitory shocks to income on parental investments in children. We use … panel data on family income, and an index of investments in children in time and goods, from the Children of the National … partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, and we cannot reject the hypothesis full insurance …
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per capita income levels in NPF-located municipalities in Japan by using the synthetic control method (SCM). Eight … quantitative case studies using the SCM clarify that the effects of NPF establishment on per capita taxable income levels are …
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