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The quantity and quality of teachers: a dynamic trade-off

Gilpin, Gregory; Kaganovich, Michael - 2009

education, assuming that the institutional setup of the school system remains unchanged. …

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Educational standards in private and public schools

Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2005

We show that, when school quality is measured by the educational standard and attaining the standard requires costly … relatively high cost of effort, who would find the high standards of the public school excessively demanding. With the key …

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Do Multinationals Transplant Their Business Model?

Marin, Dalia - 2019

What determines whether or not multinational firms transplant the mode of organisation to other countries? We embed the theory of knowledge hierarchies in an industry equilibrium model of monopolistic competition to examine how the economic environment may affect the decision of multinational...

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Pension Reform, Retirement and Life-Cycle Unemployment

Jaag, Christian; Keuschnigg, Christian; Keuschnigg, Mirela - 2021

demonstrate the economic and welfare impact of recent pension reform in Austria …

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How to deal with covert child labour, and give children an effective education, in a poor developing country: An optimal taxation problem with moral hazard

Cigno, Alessandro - 2010

awards, together with a mix of taxes on parental income, and on the return to educational investment. It also makes school …

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A case for taxing education

Blumkin, Tomer; Sadka, Efraim - 2005

We illustrate a novel informational feature of education, which the government may utilize. Discretionary decisions of individuals to acquire education may serve as an additional signal (to earned labor income) on the underlying unobserved innate earning ability, thereby mitigating the...

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Does the housing market react to new information on school quality?

Fiva, Jon H.; Kirkebøen, Lars J. - 2008

This paper analyzes housing market reactions to the release of previously unpublished information on school quality …. Using the sharp discontinuity in the information environment allows us to study price changes within school catchment areas …, thus controlling for neighborhood unobservables. We find a substantial housing market reaction to publication of school …

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GM estimation of higher order spatial autoregressive processes in panel data error component models

Badinger, Harald; Egger, Peter - 2008

This paper presents a generalized moments (GM) approach to estimating an R-th order spatial regressive process in a panel data error component model. We derive moment conditions to estimate the parameters of the higher order spatial regressive process and the optimal weighting matrix required to...

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Pension reform, retirement and life-cycle unemployment

Jaag, Christian; Keuschnigg, Christian; Keuschnigg, Mirela - 2007

demonstrate the economic and welfare impact of recent pension reform in Austria. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264263

Market concentration and product variety under spatial competition : evidence from retail gasoline

Goetz, Georg; Gugler, Klaus - 2004

We show that for a spatially differentiated economy reduced product variety is the likely outcome of mergers except in cases where exit costs in relation to (outlet-specific) fixed costs are high. Our empirical analysis of the Austrian retail gasoline market confirms that increases in...

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