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New Evidence on Fungibility at the Aggregate Level
Marc, Lukasz - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
This study examines the fungibility of foreign aid and makes three contributions to the existing literature. Firstly, fungibility of aid at the aggregate level is reexamined on a richer panel dataset of 91 developing countries for 1980-2009, taking into account endogeneity of aid and...
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The Causal Links between Aid and Government Expenditures
Marc, Lukasz - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
The most recent literature on aid effectiveness finds a positive effect of aid on growth. To the extent that aid goes through the budget, this either reflects an aid-financed increase in government expenditures (quantity effect) or an improvement in the use of government resources as a result of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257144
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Growth Effects of Fiscal Policies - A Comparative Analysis in a Multi-Country Context
Brons, Martijn; Groot, Henri L.F.M. de; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 1999
The potential interactions among fiscal policies, investments and economicgrowth are complex and manifold.In this paper, we will perform a systematic comparative analysis of the variouseconomic insights that arecurrently available on these complex relationships, both theoretically (by aselective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255976
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Meta-Analysis of the Impact of Fiscal Policies on Long-Run Growth
Nijkamp, Peter; Jacques Poot, Victoria - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002
The issue of whether the public sector enhances or retards long-run economic growth has been debated passionately in recent years. In this paper we use meta-analysis to shed light on the issue. A sample of 93 published studies, yielding 123 meta-observations, is used to examine the robustness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256117
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Sorting and the Output Loss due to Search Frictions
Gautier, Pieter A.; Teulings, Coen N. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
We analyze a general search model with on-the-job search and sorting of heterogeneous workers into heterogeneous jobs. This model yields a simple relationshipbetween (i) the unemployment rate, (ii) the value of non-market time, and (iii) themax-mean wage differential. The latter measure of wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257030
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Collective versus Decentralized Wage Bargaining and the Efficient Allocation of Resources
Cai, Xiaoming; Gautier, Pieter A.; Watanabe, Makoto - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
An advantage of collective wage agreement is that search and business-stealing externalities can be internalized. A disadvantage is that it takes more time before an optimal allocation is reached because more productive firms (for a particular worker type) can no longer signal this by posting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257565
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Imperfect Information, Lagged Labor Adjustment and the Great Moderation
Willems, Tim; Wijnbergen, Sweder van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
productivity and the reduction in output volatility (known as the Great Moderation). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256598
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Simultaneous Search with Heterogeneous Firms and Ex Post Competition
Gautier, Pieter A.; Wolthoff, Ronald P. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006
In this paper we study the allocation of workers over high and low productivity firms in a labor market with … coordination frictions. Specifically, we consider a search model where workers can apply to high and or low productivity firms … and sending both to the low productivity sector. But, efficiency requires that they apply to both sectors because a higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257276
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On-the-Job Search and Sorting
Gautier, Pieter A.; Teulings, Coen N.; Vuuren, Aico van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
, firms take into account the expected productivity of future workers in their current jobs. If firms are able to make and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257478
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Returns for Entrepreneurs versus Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs vis-a-vis Wage Employees
Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples’ occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256522