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Expanding the Welfare System: A Proposal for Reform

Orszag, Mike; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

This proposal involves the establishment of ‘welfare accounts’ for every person in a country. There are four accounts: a retirement account (covering pensions), an unemployment account (covering unemployment support), a human capital account (covering education and training), and a health...

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Self-Confidence: Intrapersonal Strategies

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

career decisions. People generally have imperfect knowledge about their abilities, which in most tasks are complementary to …

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Willpower and Personal Rules

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper studies the internal commitment mechanisms or ‘personal rules’ (diets, exercise regimens, resolutions, moral or religious precepts, etc.) through which people seek to achieve self-control. Our theory is based on the idea of self-reputation over one’s willpower, which potentially...

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A Macro Theory of Employment Vouchers

Orszag, Mike; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper explores the optimal design of subsidies for hiring unemployed workers (‘employment vouchers’ for short) in the context of a simple macroeconomic model of the labour market. Focusing on the short-term and long-term effects of the vouchers on employment and unemployment, the...

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Incapacity Benefits versus Benefit Transfers

Orszag, Mike; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

The paper explores the employment implications of allowing people the opportunity of using a portion of their incapacity benefits to provide employment vouchers for employers that hire them. The analysis indicates that introducing this policy could increase employment, raise the incomes of...

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Youth Unemployment and Government Policy

Orszag, Mike; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

This paper discusses how employment vouchers should depend on age in a simple overlapping generations model in which workers are either young or old. We find that young workers should receive higher vouchers as displacement of the old rises and as the deadweight loss from providing vouchers to...

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Self-Confidence & Social Interactions

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

, at school, and in personal relationships. Because a person generally has only imperfect knowledge of his own abilities …

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Self Control in Peer Groups

Battaglini, Marco; Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

People with a self-control problem often seek relief through social interactions rather than binding commitments. Thus, in self-help groups like Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous etc, members are said to achieve better personal outcomes by mainly sharing their experiences. In other...

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R&D, Socio-Economic Conditions and Regional Innovation in the United States

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

This paper looks at the genesis of innovation in the United States from a territorial perspective. The analysis aims to … disentangle the impact of local R&D expenditure from other contextual conditions supportive of the process of innovation …. Particular emphasis is devoted to the role of socio-economic factors and systems of innovation conditions (‘social filter …

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The Territorial Dynamics Of Innovation In China And India

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres; Storper, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

and technology. Indian innovation hubs also generate positive knowledge spillovers to other regions. …This paper analyses the geography of innovation in China and India. Using a tailor-made panel database for regions in … between the provinces and states within both countries are quite different. In China, the concentration of innovation is …

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