Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 1,507
Cover Image
Monopsony, Efficiency, and the Regularization of Undocumented Immigrants
Borjas, George J.; Edo, Anthony - 2023
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014346769
Cover Image
Efficient Targeting in Childhood Interventions
Paul, Alexander - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840456
Cover Image
(In)Efficiency of Employment Offices : A Study on Welfare Benefits Determination – Is There a Trade-Off between Time Saving Case Management and Quality of Decisions?
Dyballa, Katharina - 2020
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012829935
Cover Image
Corporate Efficiency, Credit Status and Investment
Quader, Manzur - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051438
Cover Image
Analyzing Cost Efficient Production Behavior Under Economies of Scope : A Nonparametric Methodology
Cherchye, L. - 2006
. 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779393
Cover Image
The Three I's of Public Schools : Irrelevant Inputs, Insufficient Resources and Inefficiency
Henderson, Daniel J. - 2016
We examine the educational production function and efficiency of public school districts in Illinois. Using … related) differs substantially from our efficiency scores, and standard parametric approaches drastically underestimate school … efficiency. We discuss the policy implications of our results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985685
Cover Image
Efficiency Versus Insurance : Capital Income Taxation and Privatizing Social Security
Makarski, Krzysztof; Tyrowicz, Joanna; Komada, Oliwia - 2022
insurance against income uncertainty. This insurance comes at the expense of efficiency loss due to labor supply distortions … efficiency gains. However, prior research financed the transitory costs of the reform by taxing consumption. We show that in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014084040
Cover Image
When, Where and How to Perform Efficiency Estimation
Badunenko, Oleg - 2011
In this paper we compare two flexible estimators of technical efficiency in a cross-sectional setting: the … examples. We find that the reliability of efficiency scores critically hinges upon the ratio of the variation in efficiency to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120128
Cover Image
Efficiency in Employee-Owned Enterprises : An Econometric Case Study of Mondragon
Arando, Saioa - 2011
We provide the first econometric study of efficiency for a member of the Mondragon group of worker cooperatives. Eroski …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124780
Cover Image
Identity Changes and the Efficiency of Reputation Systems
Wibral, Matthias - 2014
therefore shed a negative reputation by creating a new account. We study the effects of such identity changes on the efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052704