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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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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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Land Use Change in Indonesia

Pagiola, Stefano - EconWPA - 2004

With an estimated loss of up to 20 million ha of forest over the past decade, deforestation in Indonesia has come to … the forefront of global environmental concerns. Indonesia is one of the most important areas of tropical forests worldwide … global importance because of their biodiversity and the carbon they sequester. Despite the benefits they provide, Indonesia …

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INEQUALITY AND OIL SUBSIDY IN INDONESIA

Situngkir, Hokky - EconWPA - 2004

economical resurrection in Indonesia. …

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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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Half a World: Regional inequality in five great federations

Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2004

States of America, Indonesia and Brazil in the period 1980-2000. They are all federations composed of entities (states or … both concepts in the decade of the 1990’s; Indonesia, on the contrary, displays decreasing inequality in both from the …

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Financial Crises and the Presence of Foreign Banks

Tschoegl, Adrian E. - EconWPA - 2004

The paper distinguishes between the classic or traditional foreign banks with their emphasis on corporate and wholesale banking, and the innovators responding to transition, deregulation or crisis in emerging markets. The innovators come in three varieties—bettors, prospectors and...

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