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Neumark, David; Powers, Elizabeth T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

supplementation of SSI benefits in some states, a migration response to these benefits cannot be dismissed, and migration that is … retirement and migration behavior, the disincentive effects can be overstated or understated. Migration responses to SSI benefits … response to SSI. The evidence indicates that labor supply disincentive effects of SSI do not stem from migration behavior that …

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Impact Evaluation of the Brazilian Non-Contributory Pension Program Benefício de Prestação Continuada (BPC) on Family Welfare

OLIVEIRA, Pedro Rodrigues de; KASSOUF, Ana Lúcia - Partenariat en Politiques Économiques (PEP), … - 2012

The Benefício de Prestação Continuada (BPC) program is a non‐contributory pension addressed to poor elders over 65 years‐old. This paper evaluates its effects on household composition and on labor market outcomes of the elders and their co‐residing relatives. We could not capture any...

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Immigration and Inequality

Card, David - In: American Economic Review 99 (2009) 2, pp. 1-21

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Sharing high growth across generations:pensions and demographic transition in China

Song, Zheng; Storesletten, Kjetil; Wang, Yikai; … - USI Università della Svizzera italiana - 2012

Intergenerational inequality and old-age poverty are salient isuues in contemporary China. China's aging population threatens the fiscal sustainability of its pension system, a key vehicle for intergenerational redistribution. We analyze the positive and normative effects of alternative pension...

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Sharing High Growth Across Generations: Pensions and Demographic Transition in China

Song, Zheng Michael; Storesletten, Kjetil; Wang, Yikai; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Intergenerational inequality and old-age poverty are salient issues in contemporary China. China's aging population threatens the fiscal sustainability of its pension system, a key vehicle for intergenerational redistribution. We analyze the positive and normative effects of alternative pension...

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Sharing High Growth Across Generations: Pensions and Demographic Transition in China

Song, Zheng Michael; Storesletten, Kjetil; Zilibotti, … - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2012

Intergenerational inequality and old-age poverty are salient issues in contemporary China. China’s aging population threatens the fiscal sustainability of its pension system, a key vehicle for intergenerational redistribution. We analyze the positive and normative effects of alternative...

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Intra-Household Labor Supply, Migration, and Subsistence Constraints in a Risky Environment: Evidence from Rural El Salvador

Halliday, Timothy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We use panel data from El Salvador to investigate migration and the intra-household allocation of labor as a strategy … that adverse agricultural productivity shocks increased both male migration to the US and the supply of male agricultural … labor within the household in El Salvador. In contrast, after damage sustained from the 2001 earthquakes, female migration …

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Intra-household labor supply, migration, and subsistence constraints in a risky environment: Evidence from rural El salvador

Halliday, Timothy J. - In: European Economic Review 56 (2012) 6, pp. 1001-1019

We investigate the use of intra-household labor allocation as a means of risk coping when subsistence constraints matter in rural El Salvador. We show that households increase the labor supply of its male members to the family farm and abroad in the US after being subjected to adverse...

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Migratory stages of aging in the municipality Tocópero, Falcon state, Venezuela

Lima, Blanca De; Sánchez, Marycruz - In: Economía 35 (2010) 30, pp. 143-170

offered to the municipality’s inhabitants. There are some gender differences in the migration process and youngsters continue …

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Marriage as women's old age insurance : evidence from migration and land inheritance practices in rural Tanzania

Kudo, Yuya - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012

In a traditional system of exogamous and patrilocal marriage prevalent in much of Sub-Saharan Africa, when she marries, a rural woman typically leaves her kin to reside with her husband living outside her natal village. Since a village that allows a widow to inherit her late husband's land can...

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