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Distributive Politics in a Strong Party System: Evidence from Canadian Job Grant Programs

Crampton, Eric - EconWPA - 2002

The distributive politics literature following Weingast (1979) predicts majoritarian redistribution within countries governed by strong party systems. This prediction is tested using evidence from Canadian job creation grant programs active during the mid-1990s. Results provide strong evidence...

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An Enabling Mechanism for the Creation, Adjustment, and Dissolution of States and Governmental Units

Hausken, Kjell; Knutsen, John F. - EconWPA - 2004

The article proposes an enabling mechanism for the creation, adjustment and dissolution of governmental units, giving autonomy to each resident as in a direct democracy. Rather than focusing on a narrow model with restrictive and specialized assumptions, and subsequent solutions, as has been...

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Signalling equilibrium, Intergenerational mobility and long-run growth

Raut, Lakshmi K. - EconWPA - 1996

This paper provides a signalling model of endogenous growth in which innate talents and education levels of workers drive the basic scientific knowledge and adoptive knowledge accumulation processes. Whether talented individuals get properly educated and are employed in the appropriate technical...

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A Microeconomic Analysis of Slavery in Comparison to Free Labor Economies

Ergin, Haluk I.; Sayan, Serdar - EconWPA - 1997

In addition to supervision costs, the labor cost of an enterprise (plantation) in the system of slavery consists of the … issue of supervision costs previously taken up in the theoretical literature on slavery, and focus on these two peculiar … to the findings of Vedder, et. al. (1990), that the equilibrium subsistence wage in the system of slavery is strictly …

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Part-Year Operation in 19th Century American Manufacturing: Evidence from the 1870 and 1880 Censuses

Atak, Jeremy; Bateman, Fred; Margo, Robert A. - EconWPA - 2001

Using unpublished data contained in samples from the manuscripts of the 1870 and 1880 censuses of manufactures¾the earliest comprehensive estimates available¾ this study examines the extent and correlates of part-year manufacturing during the late 19th century. While the typical manufacturing...

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As the People Want It, Blueprint for a New Confederation

Knutsen, John F - EconWPA - 2004

Presents a complete and detailed constitutional framework applying the rational self-interest model and market mechanisms to intra and inter- governmental behaviour and collective decisions. In particular, the paper presents an enabling mechanism for the creation, adjustment and dissolution of...

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Household Wealth, Public Consumption, and Economic Well-Being in the United States

Wolff, Edward N.; Zacharias, Ajit; Caner, Asena - EconWPA - 2003

Standard official measures of economic well-being are based on money income. The general consensus is that such measures are seriously flawed because they ignore several crucial determinants of well-being. We examine two such determinants-household wealth and public consumption-in the context of...

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Should Public Capital Be Subsidized or Provided?

Devarajan, Shantayanan; Xie, Danyang; Zou, Heng-Fu - EconWPA - 2002

In an endogenous-growth model, we consider alternative ways of providing public capital using distortionary taxes. We show that if the government provides the good, the resulting growth rate and welfare may or may not be higher than under laissez-faire. By contrast, if the government subsidizes...

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Reputation and competence in publicly funded scientific research

Arora, Ashish; Gambardella, Alfonso - EconWPA - 1996

This paper studies an unusually comprehensive data-set of the universe of research groups that applied to an Italian 1989 93 research programme in biotechnology and bio-instrumentation. We develop a model to test whether past publications influence the expected grants obtained by the units in...

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The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Social Safety Nets: What Can the Caribbean Expect?

Theodore, Karl; Foucade, Althea Dianne La - EconWPA - 2001

By the end of 1999 HIV/AIDS was present in at least 200 countries and approximately 34.3 million people were living with the disease, 5.3 million of whom had been infected in that year alone (WHO 2000). Approximately 21.8 million persons had died from AIDS by 2000 and countries where life...

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