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reevaluation of Germany's training programs of 1993 and 1994, we find that the programs considerably improve the long-run earnings …
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On 1 January 1999, four major reforms took effect in Poland in the areas of health, education, pensions and local administration. After 20 years, only in the last case does the original structural design remain essentially unchanged. We examine the implications of this reform from the...
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We study the efficiency in health systems generated by community health teams, a common strategy in low- and middle …
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In May 1981, President François Mitterrand regularized the status of undocumented immigrant workers in France. The newly legalized immigrants represented 12 percent of the non-French workforce and about 1 percent of all workers. Employers have monopsony power over undocumented workers because...
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Many targeted childhood interventions such as the Perry Preschool Project select eligible children based on a risk score. The variables entering the risk score and their corresponding weights are usually chosen ad hoc and are unlikely to be optimal. This paper develops a simple economic model...
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This study investigates the efficiency of the process of benefit determination for welfare recipients in Germany. A … stochastic frontier analysis is used to compute (in)efficiency of Jobcenter (employment offices) in terms of average processing … considered by analyzing the share of upheld opposition because of misapplication of the laws. No effect of the (in)efficiency …
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This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's 'productive efficiency' (Farrell, 1957 … find that skilled migrants contribute positively to a country's productive efficiency with the exception of the finance …
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switching regression models (SRM) incorporating a predicted corporate efficiency index are estimated in this paper in an effort …'s constrained credit status changes with the improvement of its efficiency. The results further reveal that financially constrained … related with corporate efficiency. These results point to the fact that high investment sensitivity to cash flow may not be …
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Using the 1997-1998 New South Wales public-hospitals comparison data, we investigate the hospital-level inefficiency by applying a stochastic-frontier multiproduct cost function. We use a flexible translog cost function to reduce the measurement errors of the outputs of the hospital. The main...
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. We illustrate our methodology by examining the cost efficiency of research programs in Economics and Business Management … cost efficiency differences between universities within specific specialization areas, even when using shadow prices to …
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