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Measuring unemployment insurance generosity
Pallage, Stéphane J. (contributor);  … - 2008
In this paper, we develop a methodology to summarize the various policy parameters of an unemployment insurance scheme into a single generosity parameter. Unemployment insurance policies are multdimensional objects. They are typically defined by waiting periods, eligibility duration, benefit...
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More than the money : payoff-irrelevant terms in relational contracts
Cromwell, Erich; Goerg, Sebastian J.; Ziółkowska, Monika - 2018
In this study we use import penetration as a proxy for foreign competition in order to empirically analyze (1) the … impact of foreign competition on managerial compensation, (2) differences in the impact between Germany and the U.S and (3 … potential endogeneity problems. It turns out that foreign competition leads to an increase of average per capita executive …
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Prudential measures and their adverse effects on bank competition : the case of Brazil
Scalco, Paulo R.; Tabak, Benjamin Miranda; Teixeira, … - In: Economic modelling 100 (2021), pp. 1-12
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Competitiveness and R&D competition revisited
Matsumura, Toshihiro; Matsushima, Noriaki; Cato, Susumu - In: Economic modelling 31 (2013), pp. 541-547
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Is inequality of opportunity robust to the measurement approach?
Ramos Morilla, Xavier; Van de Gaer, Dirk - 2017
Recent literature has suggested many ways of measuring equality of opportunity. We analyze in a systematic manner the various approaches put forth in the literature to show whether and to what extent different choices matter empirically. We use EU-SILC data for most European countries for 2005...
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Inequality measurement and tax/transfer policy
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2020
We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating household income and consumption by an equivalence scale. We argue that this leads to support for tax/transfer policies that significantly disadvantage low to middle income...
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An explanation of international differences in education and workplace training
Brunello, Giorgio; Medio, Alfredo - 2000
We develop a simple search equilibrium model of workplace training and education based on two features. First, investment in education improves job-related learning skills and reduces training costs burdened by firms. Second, firms with vacant skilled job slots can choose between recruitment...
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Regulating national firms in a common market under asymmetric information
Biancini, Sara - In: Economic modelling 68 (2018), pp. 450-460
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Financial development shocks and contemporaneous feedback effect on key macroeconomic indicators : a post Keynesian time series analysis
Chaiechi, Taha - In: Economic modelling 29 (2012) 2, pp. 487-501
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Evidence on structural changes in US time series
Jouini, Jamel; Boutahar, Mohamed - In: Economic modelling 22 (2005) 3, pp. 391-422
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