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This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable "quasi-experiment" for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000...
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Can enrolment incentives reduce the incidence of cream-skimming in the delivery of public sector services (e … enrolment incentives that set different 'shadow prices' for serving different demographic subgroups of clients, influence case … change the composition of their enrollee populations in response to changes in the incentives, increasing the relative …
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various financial incentives, including both carrots to sticks. Once their benefit spell exceeded one year, welfare recipients … bonuses were not. -- welfare to work ; financial incentives ; timing-of-events ; dynamic selection …
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speed and depth of the reforms are remarkable, mainly aimed at activating people by increasing their incentives to take up …
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workers under pressure. Weak incentives to utilize and maintain skills over the life-cycle become manifest with the ageing of … entail strong incentives to retire early and human capital is thus written off too quickly. -- Skill formation ; human … workers under pressure. Weak incentives to utilize and maintain skills over the life-cycle become manifest with the ageing of …
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egalitarian outcomes are achieved while work incentives and thus a high employment rate crucial for the financial viability of the … immigration, which may change the composition of the population in the ability and/or preference dimension. -- work incentives …
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ALMPs that provide: (i) incentives for retaining employment, (ii) incentives for creating employment, (iii) incentives for … seeking and keeping a job, (iv) incentives for human capital enhancement, and (v) improved labor market matching. Reviewing … employment, but might be cost-efficient in reducing poverty and inequity. Policies readjusting distorted employment incentives …
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characteristics on each stage of the participation process. We find that beside policy regulations individual worker incentives play …
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Each year Germany and many other developed economies spend tens of billions of Euros on active measures of employment promotion with the explicit aim of contributing to the reduction of unemployment. Yet, high unemployment has universally been a persistent problem throughout the last two...
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