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Student Responses to Merit Retention Rules

Cornwell, Christopher M.; Lee, Kyung Hee; Mustard, David B. - EconWPA - 2005

A common justification for HOPE-style merit-aid programs is to promote and reward academic achievement, thereby inducing greater investments in human capital. However, grade-based eligibility and retention rules encourage other behavioral responses. Using the longitudinal records of all...

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Intergenerational Earnings Mobility: Mechanism and Measurement

Cao, Honggao - EconWPA - 2005

Based on a model of two-stage life cycle, this paper investigates and measures intergerational relationships in lifetime earnings. Using data from PSID, I have found that the lifetime earnings transmission equation is non-linear. The elasticity of a son's lifetime earnings with respect to his...

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Does Centralised Wage Setting Lead into Higher Taxation

Kilponen, Juha; Sinko, Pekka - EconWPA - 2005

This paper studies implications of centralised wage setting for the level of taxation and public expenditure in an analytical model with unionised labour markets. We extend the previous studies by allowing for both demand and supply effects of labour. Also, in addition to the standard social...

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Wage and public expenditure setting in a monetary union

Acocella, Nicola; Bartolomeo, Giovanni Di - EconWPA - 2001

European countries have progressively integrated from the point of view of trade and investment and have a common currency now. However, labour market and fiscal institutions have largely retained their national status. The aim of this paper is to examine: a) the possibility for trade unions of...

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Does Centralised Wage Setting Lead into Higher Taxation?

Sinko, Pekka - EconWPA - 2005

This paper studies implications of centralised wage setting for the level of taxation and public expenditures in an analytical model with unionised labour markets. We extend the previous studies by allowing both demand and supply effects of labour. Also, in addition to the standard social...

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Aid, Public Expenditure and Dutch Disease

Adam, Christopher; Bevan, David - EconWPA - 2004

Contemporary policy debates on the macroeconomics of aid often concentrate on short-run Dutch disease effects, ignoring the possible supply side impact of aid—financed public expenditure. We develop a simple model of aid and public expenditure in which public infrastructure capital generates...

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Power Law Signature in Indonesian Population

Mulianta, Ivan; Situngkir, Hokky; Surya, Yohanes - EconWPA - 2004

The paper analyzes the spreading of population in Indonesia. The spreading of population in Indonesia is clustered in …

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Monitoring Banking Sector Fragility

Kibritcioglu, Aykut - EconWPA - 2002

In the financial crisis literature, it is usually argued that, contrary to the case of currency crises, building a time series index to identify banking crisis episodes is highly difficult, particularly because of the lack of reliable data on banking sector variables (non-performing loans,...

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Household Saving Behavior: The case of rural industry in Bantul

Brata, Aloysius Gunadi - EconWPA - 2004

Indonesia (BRI). This situation could be indicated that banking institution just gives little attention on the rural households …

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Deforestation and Land Use Changes Induced by the East Asian Economic Crisis

Pagiola, Stefano - EconWPA - 2004

affected countries. It focuses on three main countries—Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines. The analysis shows that there … continuum of effects, with Indonesia most heavily hit, the Philippines the least so, and Thailand somewhere in between. (b … migration has had a major impact. In Indonesia, the weakening of government authority and enforcement powers is also a major …

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