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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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The Spread of Anti-Trafficking Policies - Evidence from a New Index

Cho, Seo-Young; Dreher, Axel; Neumayer, Eric - 2021

We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and learning or emulation as plausible diffusion mechanisms for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking...

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Globalization, Economic Freedom and Human Rights

Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars H.R - 2021

Using the KOF Index of Globalization and two indices of economic freedom, we empirically analyze whether globalization and economic liberalization affect governments’ respect for human rights using a panel of 106 countries over the 1981-2004 period. According to our results, physical integrity...

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Does Terror Threaten Human Rights? Evidence from Panel Data

Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars H.R - 2021

The paper presents a political economy model linking terror and governments' respect for human rights. Using panel data for 111 countries over the period 1973-2002, we then empirically analyze whether and to what extent terror affects human rights - measured by three indices covering a wide...

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Government Repression and the Death Toll from Natural Disasters

Costa, Samia - CESifo - 2012

Natural disasters have been a major cause of human suffering. Countries with higher income, lower inequality, lower corruption, and more democratic regimes have been found to experience less casualties from disasters. Government repression, however, could also play a role in disaster...

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