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The dilemma of delegating search : budgeting in public employment services
Addison, John T.; Altemeyer-Bartscher, Martin; Kuhn, Thomas - 2010
The poor performance often attributed to many public employment services may be explained in part by a delegation problem between the central office and local job centers. In markets characterized by frictions, job centers function as match-makers, linking job seekers with relevant vacancies....
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Norwegian rhapsody? : the political economy benefits of regional integration
Campos, Nauro; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Moretti, Luigi - 2015
This paper investigates whether joint economic and political integration leads to larger economic benefits than just economic integration. The identification strategy rests on the fact that Norway, at the time of the 1995 Enlargement of the European Union (EU), had successfully completed...
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Authority and incentives in organizations
Kräkel, Matthias - 2013
The paper analyzes how the choice of organizational structure leads to the best compromise between controlling behavior based on authority rights and minimizing costs for implementing high efforts. Concentrated delegation and hierarchical delegation turn out to be never an optimal compromise. If...
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The welfare effects of globalization with labor market regulation
Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2015
contributions to the latter's decisions. Both a shift from national to international regulation and a decrease in trade costs …
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On the boundaries of the shadow economy : an empirical investigation
Manes, Eran; Schneider, Friedrich; Tchetchik, Anat - 2016
support to this view. We find that in countries with less stringent job market regulation the long-run impact of Unemployment … faster in countries with looser job-market regulation, compared with countries with stricter regulation. These findings have …
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How do drug prices respond to a change from external to internal reference pricing? : evidence from a Danish regulatory reform
Kaiser, Ulrich; Méndez, Susan J. - 2015
We study the effects of a change in the way patient reimbursements are calculated on the prices of pharmaceuticals using quasi-experimental data for Denmark which switched from external (where reimbursements are based on prices of similar products in foreign countries) to internal reference...
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Privatisation in developing countries : what are the lessons of recent experience?
Estrin, Saul; Pelletier, Adeline - 2016
This paper reviews recent empirical evidence on privatisation in developing countries. Particular emphasis is placed on new areas of research such as the distributional impacts of privatisation. Overall, the literature now reflects a more cautious and nuanced evaluation of privatisation. Thus it...
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Slippery fish : enforcing regulation under subversive adaptation
Gonzalez Lira, Andres; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - 2019
Attempts to curb illegal activity through regulation gets complicated when agents can adapt to circumvent enforcement …
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Government regulation and lifecycle wages : evidence from continuing coverage mandates
Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Webber, Douglas A. - 2019
We examine the lifecycle wage effects of health insurance market regulation that compels private insurers to offer …
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The impact of regulation on innovation
Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Van Reenen, John - 2021
Does regulation affect the pace and nature of innovation and if so, by how much? We build a tractable and quantifiable ….4% lower due to the regulation, a 2.2% consumption equivalent welfare loss. Four-fifths of this loss is due to lower innovation … changes in the direction of R&D, and find that regulation's negative effects only matter for incremental innovation (as …
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