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, without imposing assumptions on the (in)efficiency of labor rationing. Compared to a distributionally equivalent tax change, a …
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We explore the feasibility of a funded pension system with intergenerational risk sharing when participation in the …'s willingness to do so. We characterise equilibria with voluntary participation and show that the likelihood of their existence … increases with risk aversion and financial market uncertainty. We find that it is likely that mandatory participation is …
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We consider the efficiency of Cournot and Bertrand equilibria in a duopoly with substitutable goods where firms invest …
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association started with a voluntary benchmarking aimed to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the sector. Secondly … efficiency of these two evolutions. In particular, we adapt Free Disposal Hull (FDH) to estimate robust and conditional non …-oriented efficiency estimates. Parametric COLS (Fourier) tests show the robustness of the model with respect to the specification and its …
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Much attention has been paid to the influence of the institutional form of waste collection on costs. We extend this literature in three directions by including the unit-based pricing system. First, we show that unit-based pricing systems are more important from a cost-minimizing point of view...
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While the employment effects of minimum wages are usually reported to be small (suggesting low substitutability between skill types), direct estimates suggest a much larger degree of substitutability. This paper argues that this paradox is largely due to a bias induced by the aggregation of...
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There has been much attention for the causes of the increase in wageinequality in the United States since the mid seventies. DiNardo,Fortin, and Lemieux (1996) showed that minimum wages can explain 25%. The present paper uses a more general approach requiring noassumptions on how minimum wages...
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