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We propose a signaling model of student enrollment dynamics based on probabilities of completion of studies, under …
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To analyze the optimal social insurance package, we set up a two-period life-cycle model with risky human capital investment in which the government has access to labor taxation, education subsidies and capital taxation. Social insurance is provided by redistributive labor taxation. Moreover,...
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To analyze the optimal social insurance package, we set up a two-period life-cycle model with risky human capital investment in which the government has access to labor taxation, education subsidies and capital taxation. Social insurance is provided by redistributive labor taxation. Moreover,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008833884
studying (the pure human capital model) or whether studying has no effect on productivity (the pure signaling model). Thus … help to distinguish between human capital and signaling. However, with longitudinal data, RDD can be used to estimate the …
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effects and small changes in the electoral incentives may generate large changes in turnout due to signaling effects. (iv …) Signaling incentives increase the sensitivity of turnout to voting incentives in communities with low opportunity cost of social …
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matching. The effects of a change of the exogenously given graph (constraints) are investigated. Specifically, we examine to … what extent individuals gain or lose from relaxing restrictions on matching. Sabotage of particular matches or location …
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Stable matchings may fail to exist in the roommate matching problem, both when utility is transferable and when it is … not. We show that when utility is transferable, the existence of a stable matching is restored when there is an even … individuals of any given type is large enough there always exist “quasi-stable” matchings: a stable matching can be restored with …
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-called matching approaches. Matching schemes are regarded as providing a promising approach to overcome under supply of public goods … like climate protection. The functioning of matching mechanisms in a setting with an incomplete agreement, i.e. a contract … by analyzing incomplete matching agreements in the context of international climate protection. We analyze their effect …
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This paper uses a new data set on domestic child adoption to document the preferences of potential adoptive parents over born and unborn babies relinquished for adoption by their birth mothers. We show that adoptive parents exhibit significant biases in favor of girls and against...
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Matching mechanisms are regarded as an important instrument to bring about Pareto optimal allocations in a public good … interior matching equilibrium, however, emerges only under very special conditions. But we show in this note that corner …
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