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Ginis in General Equilibrium : Trade, Technology and Southern Inequality
Zhu, Susan Chun - 2001
Within developing and newly industrialized countries, rising wage inequality is both common and highly correlated with export growth. This is incompatible with the Stolper-Samuelson theorem, but suggestive of a role for technological catch-up. We develop this insight using a model that features...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470273
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Monitoring for Waste : Evidence from Medicare Audits
Shi, Maggie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper examines the tradeoffs of monitoring for wasteful public spending. By penalizing unnecessary spending, monitoring improves the quality of public expenditure and incentivizes firms to invest in compliance technology. I study a large Medicare program that monitored for unnecessary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337803
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Plugging Gaps in Payment Systems : Evidence from the Take-Up of New Medicare Billing Codes
Clemens, Jeffrey; Leganza, Jonathan M.; Masucci, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Over the last decade, the U.S. Medicare program has added new billing codes to enhance the financial rewards for Chronic Care Management and Transitional Care Management. We analyze the effects of introducing these new billing codes. First, we provide evidence on the adoption of the new codes by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322724
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The Prices in the Crises : What We Are Learning from Twenty Years of Health Insurance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Das, Jishnu; Đỗ-Quý-Toàn - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Governments in many low- and middle-income countries are developing health insurance products as a complement to tax-funded, subsidized provision of health care through publicly operated facilities. This paper discusses two rationales for this transition. First, health insurance would boost...
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Accounting for the Black-White Wealth Gap : A Nonparametric Approach
Barsky, Robert - 2001
This paper notes a potential problem in the method of Blinder and Oaxaca the most popular method in the literature for decomposing the mean difference between groups of a given variable into the portion attributable to differences in the distribution of some explanatory variables and differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470252
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Decomposing the Twin-peaks in the World Distribution of Output-per-worker
Beaudry, Paul - 2002
This papers examines changes in the distribution of per-worker-output across countries over the period 1960-98, with a particular focus on identifying the forces behind the hollowing out of the middle of the distribution and the associated emergence of a twin-peaks phenomenon. The main finding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469469
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Decomposing Wage Inequality Change Using General Equilibrium Models
Abrego, Lisandro - 2002
This paper presents ex post decomposition analysis of wage inequality change using multi-sector general equilibrium models. The analytical structure used is a specific- factors model of trade, which we calibrate to UK data for the two years 1979 and 1975. We first calibrate our general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469526
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The Electric Gini : Income Redistribution through Energy Prices
Levinson, Arik - 2019
Efficient electricity pricing involves two-part tariffs: a volumetric price equal to the marginal cost of producing an additional kilowatt hour (kWh) and a fixed fee to cover any remaining fixed costs. In this paper we explore how US electricity regulators depart from this simple two-part tariff...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480330
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Democracy, Redistribution and Inequality
Acemoglu, Daron - 2013
In this paper we revisit the relationship between democracy, redistribution and inequality. We first explain the theoretical reasons why democracy is expected to increase redistribution and reduce inequality, and why this expectation may fail to be realized when democracy is captured by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458917
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Real-Time Poverty, Material Well-Being, and the Child Tax Credit
Han, Jeehoon; Meyer, Bruce D.; Sullivan, James X. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic two new timely poverty measures have been developed to monitor fast …-changing economic conditions for the most deprived. The Han et al. near real-time poverty measure uses responses to a global income … poverty measure, widely cited in the media, uses data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the CPS and other …
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