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Public and private insurance with costly transactions
Bertola, Giuseppe; Koeniger, Winfried - 2010
We characterize how public insurance schemes are constrained by hidden financial transactions. When non-exclusive private insurance entails increasing unit transaction costs, public transfers are only partly offset by hidden private transactions, and can influence consumption allocation. We show...
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The Twin Track Model of Employee Voice: An Anglo-American Perspective on Union Decline and the Rise of Alternative Forms of Voice
Bryson, Alex; Freeman, Richard B.; Gomez, Rafael; … - 2017
We present a simple framework for analyzing decline in union voice in the Anglo-American world and its replacement by non-union, often direct, forms of worker voice. We argue that it is a decline in the in-flow to unionisation among employers and workers, rather than an increase in the outflow...
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Public and Private Insurance with Costly Transactions
Bertola, Giuseppe; Koeniger, Winfried - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We characterize how public insurance schemes are constrained by hidden financial transactions. When non-exclusive private insurance entails increasing unit transaction costs, public transfers are only partly offset by hidden private transactions, and can influence consumption allocation. We show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008678696
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Women political leaders, corruption and learning: Evidence from a large public program in India
Afridi, Farzana; Iversen, Vegard; Sharan, M. R. - 2013
India. Using primary survey data, we find more program inefficiencies and leakages in village councils reserved for women …
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Guns and Butter? Fighting Violence with the Promise of Development
Khanna, Gaurav; Zimmermann, Laura V - 2015
analyze the impact of one of the world's largest anti-poverty programs, India's NREGS, on the intensity of Maoist conflict. We …
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May There Be Victory: Government Election Performance and the World's Largest Public-Works Program
Zimmermann, Laura V - 2015
A number of developing country governments have introduced ambitious anti-poverty programs in recent years, but the dynamic effects of these initiatives on governments' election performance remain poorly understood. Especially in contexts with low program implementation quality, public support...
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Christianity and Infant Health in India
Menon, Nidhiya; McQueeney, Kathleen - 2015
This paper studies child health in India focusing on differences in anthropometric outcomes between the three main … establishing countries were engaged in during India's colonial history. The results are robust to a series of checks for instrument … scientific underpinnings of disease, the advent of Christianity has long-term health implications for India's children today. …
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Income Guarantees and Borrowing in Risky Environments: Evidence from India's Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
Bell, Clive; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop - 2015
This paper investigates the effects of an income guarantee on borrowing to smooth consumption and finance cultivation in a risky setting with marked seasonality. A three-season, infinite-horizon theoretical model is developed and analyzed. The insights yielded by the model are then used to...
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Bad Karma or Discrimination? Male-Female Wage Gaps among Salaried Workers in India
Deshpande, Ashwini; Goel, Deepti; Khanna, Shantanu - 2015
gender wage gaps among Regular Wage/Salaried (RWS) workers in India, both at the mean, as well as along the entire wage …
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Intergenerational Educational Persistence among Daughters: Evidence from India
Azam, Mehtabul - 2015
We examine educational transmission between fathers (mothers) and daughters in India for daughters born during 1962 …') educational distribution. We also find that "Equality of Opportunity" remains an elusive goal for India. Not only the probability …
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