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Applications and Interviews - A Structural Analysis of Two-Sided Simultaneous Search

Wolthoff, Ronald P. - CESifo - 2011

A large part of the literature on frictional matching in the labor market assumes bilateral meetings between workers … equilibrium search model of the labor market with an endogenous number of contacts between workers and firms. Workers contact … approximately half of the 4.7% loss. There is a potential role for activating labor market policies, because I show that for the …

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Restrictive Immigration Policy in Germany: Pains and Gains Foregone?

Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Geis, Wido; Kohler, Wilhelm - CESifo - 2008

employment effects. We quantify these effects for Germany. Following Borjas (2003), we estimate a structural model of labor …

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The Child Adoption Marketplace: Parental Preferences and Adoption Outcomes

Skidmore, Mark; Anderson, Gary; Eiswerth, Mark - CESifo - 2011

In the United States child adoption costs vary considerably, ranging from no out-of-pocket expense to $50,000 or more. What are the causes for the variability in adoption expenses? We administered a survey to a sample of Michigan adoptive families to link adoptive parent characteristics, child...

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The Choice of Environmental Policy Instruments: Energy Efficiency and Redistribution

Haupt, Alexander; Stadejek, Magdalena - CESifo - 2010

efficiency of products. Considering energy taxes, subsidies to firms for investment in more eco-friendly products, and product … strict product standard and in addition implements a moderate subsidy to firms, but avoids energy taxes. …

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Policy Persistence and Rent Extraction

Friedrich, Silke - CESifo - 2013

The existing literature has shown that special interest groups can have both growth enhancing and retarding effects on an economy. In either case it is always assumed that the nature of the special interest groups remains constant over time. The hypothesis of this paper is that a dynamic...

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Centralized Fiscal Spending by Supranational Unions

Simon, Jenny; Valasek, Justin Mattias - CESifo - 2013

decreasing efficiency, which becomes more severe as the centralized budget increases. We also analyze partial ex-ante commitment … through alternative decision-making institutions: Both majority rule and exogenous tax rules can improve efficiency. …

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Battle for Climate and Scarcity Rents: Beyond the Linear-Quadratic Case

Kagan, Mark; Ploeg, Frederick Van der; Withagen, Cees A. - CESifo - 2014

The nature of oil demand influences the oil extraction rate and hence has implications for both the timing of oil exhaustion and optimal climate policy. We analyse what role oil demand specification plays in strategic interactions b between an oil-importing country producing final goods and...

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Simultaneous Search and Network Efficiency

Gautier, Pieter A.; Holzner, Christian - CESifo - 2011

When workers send applications to vacancies they create a network. Frictions arise if workers do not know where other workers apply to (this affects network creation) and firms do not know which candidates other firms consider (this affects network clearing). We show that those frictions and the...

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Are User Fees Really Regressive?

Economides, George; Philippopoulos, Apostolis - CESifo - 2012

by the Ramsey government not only increases aggregate efficiency, but it also decreases inequality. This result is in …

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Market Failures and the Under-Provision of Training

Brunello, Giorgio; Paola, Maria De - CESifo - 2004

encourages labor turnover. The combination of these two facts suggests that the labor market provides less training than optimal …

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