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Cremer, Helmuth - 2013

This paper studies oligopolistic competition in education markets when schools can be private and public and when the …

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Contracting Out Mandatory Counselling and Training for Long-Term Unemployed : Private For-Profit or Non-Profit, or Keep it Public?

Cockx, Bart - 2015

This study evaluates the effectiveness of contracting out mandatory publicly provided counselling and training for long-term unemployed in Flanders (Belgium) to private for-profit and non-profit organisations (FPOs and NPOs). A multivariate transition model exploits timing-of-events and novel...

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What Does a Job Candidate's Age Signal to Employers?

Van Borm, Hannah - 2020

Research has shown that hiring discrimination is a barrier for older job candidates in many OECD countries. However, little research has delved into why older job candidates are discriminated against. Therefore, we have conducted an online scenario experiment involving recruiters to empirically...

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A Signal of (Train)Ability? Grade Repetition and Hiring Chances

Baert, Stijn - 2020

positive reaction. This finding is consistent with Queuing theory …

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Welfare Improving Tax Evasion

Canta, Chiara - 2020

We study optimal income taxation in a framework where one's willingness to report his income truthfully is positively correlated with his type. We show that allowing low-productivity types to cheat leads to Pareto-superior outcomes as compared to deterring them, even if audits can be performed...

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The Signal of Applying for a Job Under a Vacancy Referral Scheme

Van Belle, Eva - 2018

Persistent unemployment across OECD countries has led to increasing investments in activation programmes and, as a consequence, rigorous evaluations of the effectiveness of these programmes. The results of these evaluations have been mixed at best. To improve the effectiveness of the activation...

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Household Bargaining, Spouses' Consumption Patterns and the Design of Commodity Taxes

Cremer, Helmuth - 2017

We study the role and structure of commodity taxes when consumption and labor supplies are determined through a bargaining procedure between spouses, and where an optimal income tax is also available. We focus on the question whether there should be differences in tax treatment between "female"...

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Hiring Discrimination Against Pro-Union Applicants : The Role of Union Density and Firm Size

Baert, Stijn - 2014

We study the causal impact of revealing pro-unionism during the recruitment stage on hiring chances. To this end, we conduct a randomised field experiment in the Belgian labour market. When matched with employer and sector data, the experimentally gathered data enable us to test the...

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Taxing Pensions

Cremer, Helmuth - 2016

There exists a wide variety of tax treatments of pensions across the world. And the reasons for such a range of regimes are not clear. This note reviews the general principles of pension taxes and analyses the theoretical foundations of why pension incomes ought to be taxed specifically. To do...

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The Design of Insurance Coverage for Medical Products Under Imperfect Competition

Bardey, David - 2015

This paper studies the design of health insurance with ex post moral hazard, when there is imperfect competition in the … copayment instruments leads to the same reimbursement rule of individual expenditures as under perfect competition for medical … products. Additional rationing of coverage because of imperfect competition as advocated by Feldstein (1973) is thus not …

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