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Unemployment Insurance and Incentives in Hungary

Micklewright, John; Nagy, Gyula - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

We investigate the effect of changes in unemployment insurance (UI) rules in Hungary on the outflow rate from the UI … register. Existing claims to UI are `grandfathered' in Hungary when UI rules change - new rules are applied only to new claims … unemployed in Hungary to be fairly inelastic to changes in UI benefits. …

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Living Standards and Incentives in Transition: the Implications of Unemployment Insurance Exhaustion in Hungary

Micklewright, John; Nagy, Gyula - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

The single most likely way to leave the unemployment insurance (UI) register in Hungary is not by getting a job but by … standards? Second, does UI exhaustion have much effect on the probability of getting a job through increasing incentives to work … attention to the household circumstances of the unemployed and to the probabilities of claiming and being awarded means …

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An Empirical Investigation of Gaming Responses to Explicit Performance Incentives

Courty, Pascal; Marschke, Gerald - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper studies a particular kind of gaming response to explicit incentives in a large government organization. The …

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Taxes and Government Incentives: Eastern Europe vs. China

Gordon, Roger H; Li, David Daokui - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

of the tax system in influencing the incentives faced by government officials. …

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On the Evolution of the US Consumer Wealth Distribution

Hintermaier, Thomas; Koeniger, Winfried - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We use all available waves of the Survey of Consumer Finances to document the evolution of the wealth distribution in the US since the 1980s. We then rely on the shape of this distribution to estimate a life-cycle incomplete markets model. We find that considering a wide range of net-worth...

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Vanishing Third World Emigrants?

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper documents a stylized fact not well appreciated in the literature. The Third World has been undergoing an emigration life cycle since the 1960s, and, except for Africa, emigration rates have been level or even declining since a peak in the late 1980s the early 1990s. The current...

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Human Capital and Optimal Positive Taxation of Capital Income

Bovenberg, A Lans; Jacobs, Bas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

investment, financial savings, and labour supply with heterogenous individuals. A dual income tax with a positive marginal tax … than that on labour income if savings are elastic compared to investment in human capital; substitution between inputs in …

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Innovative Clusters and the Industry Life Cycle

Audretsch, David B; Feldman, Maryann P - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

The purpose of this paper is to link the propensity for innovative activity to cluster spatially to the stage of the industry life cycle. The theory of knowledge spillovers, based on the knowledge production function for innovative activity, suggests that geographic proximity matters most in...

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Consumption Over the Life-Cycle

Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Parker, Jonathan A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

-stock agents. Around the age of 40, the typical household starts accumulating liquid assets for retirement and its behaviour mimics …

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Winners and Losers in Housing Markets

Kiyotaki, Nobuhiro; Michaelides, Alexander; Nikolov, Kalin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

production, and household behavior over a lifetime. We develop a life-cycle model of a production economy in which land and …

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