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that the introduction of an unemployment insurance program and/or a universal basic income system help eliminate child …
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We propose a multisector endogenous growth model incorporating social capital. Social capital only serves as input in the production of human capital and it involves a cost in terms of the final good. We show that in contrast to existing alternative specifications, this setting assures that...
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In this paper we compare the welfare effects of unemployment insurance (UI) with an universal basic income (UBI) system … shocks. While the unemployment insurance program should do a better job at protecting the unemployed, it suffers from moral …
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unemployment that are in line with the data. We show that both the endogenous movements in the firm’s discount factor and the …
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A substantial literature has examined the determinants of support for democracy and although existing work has found a gender gap in democratic attitudes, there have been no attempts to explain it. In this paper we try to understand why females are less supportive of democracy than males in a...
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aftermath of geo-localized social protests in Africa, we find that trust in monitoring institutions and beliefs in social … the country’s institutions. Our interpretation is the following. Agents lend their taxes to a leader with imperfect … information on the leader’s type and the underlying capacity of institutions to monitor her. A misbehavior is then interpreted as …
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remises en cause alors que les règles constitutionnelles permettant de penser la dynamique des institutions semblent avoir …
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neighborhood characteristics explain victimization better than individual characteristics. Second, I find that local unemployment … the precise localization of the data to adopt a spatial approach, comparing the effect of unemployment rate in the …
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-being responds negatively (positively) to an increase in the GDP (unemployment rate) of their home country. That is, we originally …
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