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Greying the budget : ageing and preferences over public policies

Mello, Luiz R. de; Schotte, Simone; Tiongson, Erwin R.; … - 2016

This paper looks at how individual preferences for the allocation of government spending change along the life cycle …. Our findings are consistent with a body of literature arguing that conflict across generations over the allocation of …

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Improving the allocation of spots in child care facilities for toddlers in Germany : a mechanism design approach

Carlsson, Sissa; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2015

from limited spaces but also from inefficient allocation. By means of simulations under different scenarios, we contrast a … stylized version of decentralized allocation to a centralized allocation mechanism which applies a deferred …

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Reallocation and the role of firm composition effects on aggregate wage dynamics

Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Bobbio, Emmanuele; De … - 2018

Aggregate wages display little cyclicality compared to what a standard model would predict. Wage rigidities are an obvious candidate but a recent strand of the literature has emphasized the need to take into account the growing importance of worker composition effects during downturns. With...

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Resource misallocation in European firms : the role of constraints, firm characteristics and managerial decisions

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Revoltella, Debora; Švejnar, Jan; … - 2018

Using a new survey, we show that the dispersion of marginal products across firms in the European Union is about twice as large as that in the United States. Reducing it to the US level would increase EU GDP by more than 30 percent. Alternatively, removing barriers between industries and...

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Economic reforms and productivity-enhancing reallocation in the post-Soviet transition

Brown, J. David (contributor); Earle, John S. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Supply and demand, allocation and wage inequality : an international comparison

Dupuy, Arnaud (contributor); Borghans, Lex (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Welfare in models of trade with heterogeneous firms

Janiak, Alexandre (contributor) - 2008

I illustrate that the welfare improvement property of the Melitz model is due to the shape of the aggregate labor demand curve, which slopes upwards. By slightly changing some assumptions in the model, this curve may have a negative slope. In this case, increases in aggregate productivity result...

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Accounting for China's growth

Brandt, Loren; Zhu, Xiaodong - 2010

China has achieved impressive growth over the last three decades. However, there has been debate over the sources of the growth, and the role of the intensive versus extensive margin. Growth accounting exercises at the aggregate level (Rawski and Perkins, 2008; Bosworth and Collins, 2008) suggest an...

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A new model for equitable and efficient resource allocation to schools : the Israeli case

BenDavid-Hadar, Iris; Ziderman, Adrian - 2010

This paper sets out a new budget allocation formula for schools, designed to achieve a more equitable distribution of … educational achievement. In addition to needs-based elements, the suggested composite allocation formula includes an improvement … in the Educational Achievement Distribution, or IEAD). The development of the budget allocation formula is demonstrated …

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Employment protection, technology choice, and worker allocation

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Gautier, Pieter; Wind, Joris de - 2010

; sectoral allocation …

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