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Trade Policy and the Household Distribution of Income
Francois, J.; Rojas-Romagosa, H. - Tinbergen Institute - 2004
general-equilibrium mapping from tariffs to household inequality measures. This also yields predictions for linkages between … tariffs, development level, and observed household inequality. Working with a new dataset, we then examine crosscountry … variation in inequality with respect to import protection. Results are consistent with predictions of the factor-intensity model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137134
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Well-Being Inequality and Reference Groups - An Agenda for New Research
Praag, Bernard van - Tinbergen Institute - 2010
well-being is much less investigated. It is argued that the concept of well-being inequality cannot be properly defined … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642566
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Lifetime Labor Supply in a Search Model of Unemployment
Bettendorf, Leon J.H.; Broer, D. Peter - Tinbergen Institute - 2003
This paper investigates the age-dependency of participation and unemployment by integrating job search with intertemporal optimizing behavior of finitely-lived households. We find that search frictions and tax rates distort the decisions of older workers to a much larger extent than that of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137335
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How important are Institutions for Growth in Transition Countries?
Moers, Luc - Tinbergen Institute - 1999
Growth empirics with institutional measures is performed for 25 transition countries over the period 1990-95. Estimation results suggest that (particularly state) institutions are significant for growth and, especially, foreign direct investment (FDI), the latter in turn being important for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144418
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What determines Enterprise Performance in Russia? A Survey of the Evidence
Moers, Luc - Tinbergen Institute - 1999
To achieve sustainable economic growth in the transition countries, it is crucial that enterprise performance is improved. However, it is not clear which factors are essential for this. On the basis of the empirical literature on potential determinants of enterprise performance in Russia,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137075
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Determinants of Enterprise restructuring in Transition: Description of a Survey in Russian Industry
Moers, Luc - Tinbergen Institute - 2000
To achieve sustainable economic growth in transition countries, it is crucial that enterprise performance is improved. However, it is not a priori clear which factors are essential for this. For Russia, data to investigate the potential determinants of enterprise performance is scarce....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137157
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Measuring and Explaining the Limited Take-up of the Housing Benefit in the Netherlands
Rouwendal, Jan - Tinbergen Institute - 2002
It is well known that the take-up rate of the Dutch housing benefit and other means tested benefits is substantially below 100%. In order to measure non-take up one usually has to simulate entitlement to the benefits. In this paper we take a closer look at the quality of the simulation. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005209493
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Risk Pooling through Transfers in Rural Ethiopia
Pan, Lei - Tinbergen Institute - 2007
It is often assumed that transfers received from governments, nongovernment organizations (NGOs), friends and relatives help rural households to pool risk. In this paper I investigate two functions of transfers in Ethiopia: risk pooling and income redistribution. Unlike most of the literature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144479
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Intervention Time Series Analysis of Crime Rates
Sridharan, Sanjeev; Vujic, Suncica; Koopman, Siem Jan - Tinbergen Institute - 2003
The Commonwealth of Virginia abolished parole and reformed sentencing for all felony of- fenders committed on or after January 1, 1995. We examine the impact of this legislation on reported crime rates using different time series approaches. In particular, structural time series models are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144497
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The Impact of Cash Transfers on School Enrollment: Evidence from Ecuador
Oosterbeek, Hessel; Ponce, Juan; Schady, Norbert - Tinbergen Institute - 2008
This paper presents evidence about the impact on school enrollment of a program in Ecuador that gives cash transfers to the 40 percent poorest families. The evaluation design consists of a randomized experiment for families around the first quintile of the poverty index and of a regression...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136929