In the transition from socialism to capitalism in Eastern Europe life satisfaction has followed the V-shaped pattern of …

resources matter for pupil outcomes. In this paper we look at this question by considering an English education policy …. We report results showing a positive impact of the extra resources on school attendance and performance in Mathematics … resources can matter for children in the poorest secondary schools, particularly when building on a solid educational or ability …

national tests at the end of primary school. This shows that school resources have an important role to play in improving …

educational outcomes. Yet changing the level of resources is one of the key policy levers open to governments. In the UK, school …

) productive entrepreneurship and that it will therefore compete at the individual level for resources with commercial …

, welfare and public sector pay changes over the 2008 to 2012 period gave rise to lower than average losses for the bottom …

We analyze the effect of low-skill workers offshoring on the welfare of the economy. In the context of a matching model … with different possible equilibria, we discuss two policies that could potentially outweigh the negative welfare effects of … that, while both policy instruments can theoretically bring the economy back to previous welfare levels, careful thought …

Social welfare systems usually imply specific obligations for benefit recipients. If a recipient does not comply with … the literature on the effects of sanctions in social welfare systems and we present first results on the effects of … sanctions for young unemployed welfare recipients based on German administrative data. The German welfare system is particularly …

We study welfare effects of public short-time compensation (STC) in a model in which firms respond to idiosyncratic … profitability shocks by adjusting employment and hours per worker. Introducing STC substantially improves welfare by mitigating …