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Improving Incentives in Unemployment Insurance: A Review of Recent Research

Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil - CESifo - 2003

sequencing of benefits), monitoring in conjunction with sanctions, and workfare. Our reading of the theoretical literature is …

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Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Monitoring and Sanctions

Boone, Jan; Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil; Ours, … - CESifo - 2001

effort and benefit sanctions if observed search is deemed insufficient. We find that introducing monitoring and sanctions …

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Institution Formation in Public Goods Games

Kosfeld, Michael; Okada, Akira; Riedl, Arno - CESifo - 2006

Centralized sanctioning institutions are of utmost importance for overcoming free-riding tendencies and enforcing outcomes that maximize group welfare in social dilemma situations. However, little is known about how such institutions come into existence. In this paper we investigate, both...

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Optimal Unemployment Insurance Design: Time Limits, Monitoring, or Workfare?

Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil - CESifo - 2003

of improving the efficiency of UI: the duration of benefit payments, monitoring in conjunction with sanctions, and … monitoring and sanctions restores search incentives most effectively, since it brings additional incentives to search actively so … monitoring and sanctions than in the other two systems. Workfare appears to be inferior to the other two systems. …

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Political Institutions and Government Spending Behavior in Iran

Dizaji, Sajjad Faraji; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - CESifo - 2014

especially important due to recent international sanctions, aiming to change the political behavior of Iran. We use the impulse … education expenditures in short term. If sanctions are successful to change the political behavior of Iran in short run (Dizaji …

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Monitoring, Sanctions and Front-Loading of Job Search in a Non-Stationary Model

Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel; Launov, Andrey; Linden, … - CESifo - 2011

sanctions insured unemployed whose effort is deemed insufficient. The model reveals that such schemes provide incentives to the …

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Aid on Demand : African Leaders and the Geography of China's Foreign Assistance

Dreher, Axel - 2015

This article investigates whether China's foreign aid is particularly prone to political capture by political leaders of aid-receiving countries. Specifically, we examine whether more Chinese aid is allocated to the political leaders' birth regions and regions populated by the ethnic group to...

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Globalization and State Capitalism : Assessing Vietnam's Accession to the WTO

Baccini, Leonardo - 2017

What do state-owned enterprises (SOEs) do? How do they respond to market incentives? Can we expect substantial efficiency gains from trade liberalization in economies with a strong presence of SOEs? Using a new dataset of Vietnamese firms we document a set of empirical regularities...

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Overcoming History Through Exit or Integration – Deep-Rooted Sources of Support for the European Union

Gehring, Kai - 2020

Preferences about the vertical distribution of power in federal systems are not well understood. I argue that negative historical experiences with higher-level governments can plausibly raise demands for exit strategies and a devolution of power. But integration, for instance delegating power...

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Lock, Stock, and Barrel : A Comprehensive Assessment of the Determinants of Terror

Gassebner, Martin - 2011

We assess the robustness of previous findings on the determinants of terrorism. Using extreme bound analysis, the three most comprehensive terrorism datasets, and focusing on the three most commonly analyzed aspects of terrorist activity, i.e., location, victim, and perpetrator, we re-assess the...

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