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This paper investigates the impact of financial incentive programs, which have become an increasingly common component of welfare programs. We review experimental evidence from several such programs. Financial incentive programs appear to increase work and raise income (lower poverty), but cost...
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Can patent protection and product market competition complement each other in enhancing incentives to innovate? In this … positively to the product market reform in industries of countries where patent rights are strong, not where these are weak. The … positive response to the reform is more pronounced in industries in which innovators rely more on patenting than in other …
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Pensions and contemporary socioeconomic change / Assar Lindbeck -- Different approaches to pension reform from an … economic point of view / Jonathan Gruber, David A. Wise -- Labor mobility, redistribution, and pension reform in Europe / Alain … pension system: status quo and reform options / Bert Rurup -- Swedish pension reform: how did it evolve, and what does it mean …
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Because the optimal level of medical malpractice liability depends on the incentives provided by the health insurance … system, the rise of managed care in the 1990s may affect the relationship between liability reform and defensive medicine. In … this paper, we assess empirically the extent to which managed care and liability reform interact to affect the cost of care …
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Previous research suggests that "direct" reforms to the liability system -- reforms designed to reduce the level of compensation to potential claimants -- reduce medical expenditures without important consequences for patient health outcomes. We extend this research by identifying the mechanisms...
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differences, summarize their consequences, and assess potential strategies of corporate governance reform. We argue that the legal … approach is a more fruitful way to understand corporate governance and its reform than the conventional distinction between …
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As currently legislated, the U.S. Social Security System represents a bad deal for postwar Americans. Of every dollar postwar Americans have earned or will earn over their lifetimes, over 5 cents will be lost to the Old Age Survivor Insurance System (OASI) in the form of payroll taxes paid in...
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This paper presents the first attempt to estimate the benefits of reducing crime using the contingent-valuation (CV) method. We focus on gun violence, a crime of growing policy concern in America. Our data come from a national survey in which we ask respondents referendum-type questions that...
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