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Optimal Unemployment Insurance and Voting
Pollak, Andreas - EconWPA - 2005
The framework of a general equilibrium heterogeneous agent model is used to study the optimal design of an unemployment … insurance (UI) scheme and the voting behaviour on unemployment policy reforms. In a first step, the optimal defined benefit and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125042
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Bilateral Uncertainty in a Model of Job-Market Screening with Intermediaries
Schweinzer, Paul - EconWPA - 2001
We look at a job-market model of bilateral uncertainty. Workers are uncertain about what job descriptions advertised by firms really mean and firms are uncertain about the qualifications of workers before they are interviewed. Both types of uncertainty can be resolved but both processes are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407591
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CRECIMIENTO, INSTITUCIONES Y CONVERGENCIA EN MEXICO CONSIDERANDO A LA FRONTERA NORTE
Diaz-Bautista, Alejandro - EconWPA - 2004
institutions. The study conducts a literature review on the theoretical and empirical works of economic growth, with emphasis in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062522
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CRECIMIENTO, INSTITUCIONES Y CONVERGENCIA EN MEXICO CONSIDERANDO A LA FRONTERA NORTE
Diaz-Bautista, Alejandro; Celaya, Diana - EconWPA - 2004
institutions. The study conducts a literature review on the theoretical and empirical works of economic growth, with emphasis in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407867
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The Economic Growth Effects of NAFTA in the Northern Border of Mexico
Diaz-Bautista, Alejandro - EconWPA - 2004
Luego de examinar el marco teórico y conceptual de la teoría del crecimiento y del comercio internacional, se mide la eficacia de la apertura comercial impulsada por el TLCAN para fomentar el intercambio comercial. Asimismo, se evalúan los efectos de éste en el crecimiento económico de los...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413001
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Empresarialidad e instituciones: dos nuevas perspectivas del analisis regional contemporáneo
Valentina, Viego - EconWPA - 2005
This paper offers a review of the main progress made in entrepreneurship analysis and institutional economics, discussing its possible integration to general theory of economic development, considering the increasing importance that these topics have gained in contemporary approaches of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119013
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Convergence in West German Regional Unemployment Rates
Bayer, Christian; Juessen, Falko - EconWPA - 2004
Differences in regional unemployment rates are often used to describe regional economic inequality. This paper asks … whether changes in regional unemployment differences in West Germany are persistent over time. Only if such changes are … dispersion of unemployment rates. Our analysis follows a time-series approach to economic convergence and we test whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118979