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Inequality, Inequity Aversion, and the Provision of Public Goods

Kölle, Felix - 2011

We investigate the effects of inequality in wealth on the incentives to contribute to a public good when agents are inequity averse and may differ in ability. We show that equality may lead to a reduction of public good provision below levels generated by purely selfish agents. But introducing...

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Access to Banking Services and Poverty Reduction : A State-Wise Assessment in India

Bhandari, Amit K. - 2013

Financial inclusion is the broad based delivery of banking and other financial services at affordable cost to the poorest sections of society. In India, financial inclusion emphasizes to include maximum number of people under formal financial systems. The most important part of financial...

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India's Increasing Skill Premium : Role of Demand and Supply

Azam, Mehtabul - 2009

groups have not experienced any significant increase. This paper uses the demand and supply model with imperfect substitution …. Relative supply has played an important role not only determining the extent of increase in wage premium, but also its timing …. The increase in relative supply of tertiary workers during 1983-1993 offset the demand shift, limiting the wage premium …

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Are Intra-Household Allocations Policy Neutral? Theory and Empirical Evidence

Chiappori, Pierre-Andre - 2011

We develop a collective household model with spousal matching in which there exists marital gains to assortative matching and marriage quality for each couple is revealed ex post. Changes in alimony laws are shown to affect existing couples and couples-to-be differently. For existing couples,...

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Occupational Choice, Aggregate Productivity, and Trade

Meckl, Jürgen - 2011

We propose occupational decisions of heterogeneous individuals as an alternative mechanism of explaining the distribution of firm productivities emphasized by empirical studies. Thus, we integrate the frameworks of Melitz (2003), and of Manasse and Turrini (2001) that establish the theoretical...

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Employment Protection, Technology Choice, and Worker Allocation

Bartelsman, Eric J. - 2011

Using a country-industry panel dataset (EUKLEMS) we uncover a robust empirical regularity, namely that high-risk innovative sectors are relatively smaller in countries with strict employment protection legislation (EPL). To understand the mechanism, we develop a two-sector matching model where...

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Decomposing the Sources of Earnings Inequality : Assessing the Role of Reallocation

Andersson, Fredrik - 2011

This paper exploits longitudinal employer-employee matched data from the U.S. Census Bureau to investigate the contribution of worker and firm reallocation to changes in earnings inequality within and across industries between 1992 and 2003. We find that factors that cannot be measured using...

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Unemployment Compensation and the Allocation of Labor in Developing Countries

Charlot, Olivier - 2013

This paper studies the effects of the introduction of unemployment compensation (UC) in countries characterized by pervasive informality. We provide a simple framework to analyze the impact of UC on the allocation of workers between formal and informal activities, as well as the allocation of...

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Greying the Budget : Ageing and Preferences Over Public Policies

de Mello, Luiz R. - 2016

This paper looks at how individual preferences for the allocation of government spending change along the life cycle. Using the Life in Transition Survey II for 34 countries of Europe and Central Asia, we find that older individuals are less likely to support a rise in government outlays on...

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Reallocation and the Role of Firm Composition Effects on Aggregate Wage Dynamics

Adamopoulou, Effrosyni - 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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