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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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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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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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operations as pooling, matching, regression, hierarchical and multilevel modeling, calculating summary measures, finding the …
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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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We show that in a search/matching model with endogenous participation in which workers are heterogeneous with respect …
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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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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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equilibrium where workers mix between sending both applications to the high and both to the low productivity sector. Efficiency …
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We show that in a search/matching model with endogenous participation in which workers are heterogeneous with respect …
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