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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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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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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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Trade Dynamics with Sector-Specific Human Capital

Guren, Adam; Hemous, David; Olsen, Morten - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper develops a dynamic Heckscher Ohlin Samuelson model with sector-specific human capital and overlapping generations to characterize the dynamics and welfare implications of gradual labor market adjustment to trade. Our model is tractable enough to yield sharp analytic results, that...

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The Environment and Directed Technical Change

Acemoglu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Bursztyn, Leonardo; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

dirty innovation and production; (ii) optimal policy involves both .carbon taxes. and research subsidies, so that excessive … the switch to clean innovation under laissez-faire when the two inputs are substitutes. Under reasonable parameter values …

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Environmental Policy and Directed Technical Change in a Global Economy: The Dynamic Impact of Unilateral Environmental Policies

Hemous, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper builds a two-country (North, South), two-sector (polluting, nonpolluting) trade model with directed technical change, examining whether unilateral environmental policies can ensure sustainable growth. The polluting good is produced with a clean and a dirty input. I show that a...

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Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Auto Industry

Aghion, Philippe; Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Hemous, David; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …

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Long-term Relationships: Static Gains and Dynamic Inefficiencies

Hemous, David; Olsen, Morten - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

contractible or when we preclude cooperation in long-term relationships, (ii) the rate of innovation in the cooperative equilibrium … period). In that case, for sufficiently slow diffusion, the innovation rate in the cooperative equilibrium may be higher than …

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