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Efficiency in a matching model with heterogeneous agents : too many good or bad jobs?

Blázquez, Maite; Jansen, Marcel - 2003

This paper analyses the efficiency of the equilibrium allocation in a matching model with two types of workers and jobs … production technologies. Finally, in an extension we derive a tax scheme that restores efficiency and we show how workers …

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Efficiency in a search and matching economy with a competitive informal sector

Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck; Ulus, Mustafa - 2012

We consider a dual labor market with a frictional formal sector and a competitive informal sector. We show that the size of the informal sector is generally too large compared to the optimal allocation of the workers. It follows that our results give a rationale to informality-reducing policies.

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Good governance and good aid allocation

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2008

We model the aid allocation decision where the donor government has announced that good governance is the criterion for receiving aid. Potential recipients must compete for the aid funds. The structure of the competition is important to the donor in terms of achieving good governance, and to the...

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Linking individuals and societies

Jasso, Guillermina - 2009

operations as pooling, matching, regression, hierarchical and multilevel modeling, calculating summary measures, finding the …

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Shall we kill or enslave Caesar? Analyzing the Caesar model

Jasso, Guillermina - 2008

paper presents a model of killing versus enslaving Caesar, based on a new theory which unifies justice, status, and power … of societies - justice-nonmaterialistic, status, and power-nonmaterialistic. Results cover members' gains, effects of own … killed only in a justice-nonmaterialistic society, and from the noblest of motives - to achieve equal gains for members. …

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Efficiency in a search and matching model with endogenous participation

Albrecht, James; Navarro, Lucas; Vroman, Susan - 2009

We show that in a search/matching model with endogenous participation in which workers are heterogeneous with respect …

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Education and the welfare gains from employment protection

Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck - 2010

This paper studies the impact of an European-like labor market regulation on the return to schooling, equilibrium unemployment and welfare. We show that firing costs and temporary employment have opposite effects on educational choices. We furthermore demonstrate that a laissez faire economy...

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Government decentralization as a disincentive for transnational terror? An empirical analysis

Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2009

decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of … transnational terror events in a country, while political decentralization has no impact. These results are robust to the choice of …

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Simultaneous search with heterogeneous firms and ex post competition

Gautier, Pieter A.; Wolthoff, Ronald P. - 2006

equilibrium where workers mix between sending both applications to the high and both to the low productivity sector. Efficiency …

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Efficiency in a Search and Matching Model with Endogenous Participation

Albrecht, James; Navarro, Lucas; Vroman, Susan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We show that in a search/matching model with endogenous participation in which workers are heterogeneous with respect …

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