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Skill-Specific Rather then General Education : A Reason for Us-Europe Growth Differences?

Krueger, Dirk; Kumar, Krishna B. - 2021

education subsidy policy we demonstrate that the optimal subsidy for general education increases with the growth rate of …

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The Link between Fundamentals and Proximate Factors in Development

Keller, Wolfgang - 2013

The paper introduces a framework for studying the hierarchy of growth factors, from deep to more immediate. The specific setting we examine is 18th and 19th century Germany, when institutional changes introduced by reforms and transportation improvements converged to create city growth. We...

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Did Railroads Induce or Follow Economic Growth? Urbanization and Population Growth in the American Midwest, 1850-60

Atack, Jeremy - 2010

For generations of scholars and observers, the quot;transportation revolution,quot; especially the railroad, has loomed large as a dominant factor in the settlement and development of the United States in the nineteenth century. There has, however, been considerable debate as to whether...

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Means-Tested Subsidies and Economic Performance Since 2007

Mulligan, Casey B. - 2011

The aggregate neoclassical growth model - with means-tested subsidies whose replacement rates began rising at the end of 2007 as its only impulse - produces time series for aggregate labor usage, consumption, investment, and real GDP that closely resemble actual U.S. time series. Despite having...

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Place Based Policies with Unemployment

Kline, Patrick - 2013

in many place based policies. The optimal hiring subsidy is city specific in the sense that it depends upon the local …

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Impact of Premium Subsidies on the Take-Up of Health Insurance : Evidence from the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Arra)

Moriya, Asako - 2014

We study the coverage impacts of a 65-percent health insurance premium subsidy which targeted employer-insured workers … American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) COBRA subsidy and contributes to a better understanding of consumer responses to … the subsidy is associated with a substantial increase in own-name employer coverage among the targeted group. We estimate …

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Non-Employment and Health Insurance Coverage

Gruber, Jonathan; Madrian, Brigitte C. - 2022

Low rates of health insurance coverage among the non-employed have motivated consideration of policies to subsidize the purchase of insurance for those who are without a job. But there is little evidence on the extent to which coverage differentials between the employed and the non-employed...

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Tapping into Talent : Coupling Education and Innovation Policies for Economic Growth

Akcigit, Ufuk; Pearce, Jeremy; Prato, Marta - 2022

How do innovation and education policy affect individual career choice and aggregate productivity? This paper analyzes the various layers that connect R&D subsidies and higher education policy to productivity growth. We put the development of scarce talent and career choice at the center of a...

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Growth Accounting with Misallocation : Or, Doing Less with More in Singapore

Fernald, John G. - 2010

We derive aggregate growth-accounting implications for a two-sector economy with heterogeneous capital subsidies and monopoly power. In this economy, measures of total factor productivity (TFP) growth in terms of quantities (the primal) and real factor prices (the dual) can diverge from each...

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Aspects of labor market flexicurity in the Mediterranean and Anglo-Saxon models

Chenic, Alina Ştefania - In: Theoretical and applied economics : GAER review 20 (2013) 4, pp. 75-90

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