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How and How Far to Liberalize a Developing Economy with Informal Sector and Factor Market Distortions
Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - 2003
with informal sectors. Welfare implications of three liberalization policies: inflow of foreign capital, tariff reduction … a Harris-Todaro framework with an urban informal sector and capital market distortion. We have shown that welfare … measures may produce counterproductive result on welfare of the relevant country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014075759
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Technological progress with segmented factor markets and welfare implications for the urban poor
Mukherjee, Soumyatanu; Zafar, Sameen - 2015
Motivated by a set of stylised facts based on provincial data for India, this paper investigates the incidence of urban poverty by modelling the impact of technological progress in the formal sectors of the economy on the urban informal wage in a four-sector general equilibrium framework with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010490249
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Product quality, informality, and child labour
Fotoniata, Eugenia; Moutos, Thomas - 2011
, since these policies have undesirable welfare effects among segments of wage-earning households, they may not garner the … necessary political support. -- child labour ; informality ; product quality ; welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009240781
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Tax policy reform and universal basic income effectiveness in a currency union : implications for long-term growth, inequality, and welfare
Kame Babilla, Thierry U. - In: Journal of government and economics : JGE 10 (2023), pp. 1-15
-term growth and welfare in a currency union that faces fiscal rule constraints and inequality. To address this ongoing government …, inequality, and welfare depends on the type of fiscal policy adopted by government to fund it, notably the trade-off between … completely eliminating oil subsidies appears to be the best policy for reducing inequality while increasing growth and welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014414077
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Take-up and targeting : experimental evidence from SNAP
Finkelstein, Amy; Notowidigdo, Matthew J. - 2018
This paper develops a framework for evaluating the welfare impact of various interventions designed to increase take … reduce their welfare gains. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011869003
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Social spending and household welfare : evidence from Azerbaijan
Rahmanov, Ramiz - 2014
We measure the response of household consumption of different income groups to social spending during the 2002-2012 period using the aggregated Household Budget Survey Data. We find that households respond more strongly to changes in pensions than to changes in allowances and in-kind transfers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010241423
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Evaluating welfare and economic effects of raised fertility
Makarski, Krzysztof; Tyrowicz, Joanna; Malec, Magda - 2019
effects of simulated increases to the birth rates. We analyze the overall macroeconomic and welfare effects of these simulated … effects are positive, but short of the natalistic expenditures in many countries. The sign and the size of both welfare and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011993212
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Evaluating welfare and economic effects of raised fertility
Makarski, Krzysztof; Tyrowicz, Joanna; Malec, Magda - 2019
effects of simulated increases to the birth rates. We analyze the overall macroeconomic and welfare effects of these simulated … effects are positive, but short of the natalistic expenditures in many countries. The sign and the size of both welfare and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011997755
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On welfare effects of increasing retirement age
Makarski, Krzysztof; Tyrowicz, Joanna - 2018
We develop an OLG model with realistic assumptions about longevity to analyze the welfare effects of raising the … the majority of welfare effects comes from adjustments in taxes and/or prices. After the transition period, welfare … although incentives differ between defined benefit and defined contribution systems, the welfare effects are of comparable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011812259
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On welfare effects of increasing retirement age
Makarski, Krzysztof; Tyrowicz, Joanna - 2018
We develop an OLG model with realistic assumptions about longevity to analyze the welfare effects of raising the … the majority of welfare effects comes from adjustments in taxes and/or prices. After the transition period, welfare … although incentives differ between defined benefit and defined contribution systems, the welfare effects are of comparable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011821425