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From Russia with Love : The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival
Falck, Oliver - 2014
Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool industry fled the Soviet occupied zone to prevent … expropriation. We show that the regional location decisions of these firms upon moving to western Germany were driven by non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069687
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International Implications of German Unification
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2021
This paper advances the hypothesis that the EUS crisis was caused by German unification. The unification has implied a massive resource demand which parallels the US resource demand following Reagan's tax reforms in the eighties. The resource demand revised the German interest rates relative to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013223325
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From Socialist Showcase to Mezzogiorno? Lessons on the Role of Technical Change from East Germany'S Post-World War Ii Growth Performance
Keller, Wolfgang - 2021
explaining the relative East Germany-West Germany performance during the post-World War II era. We argue that previous work was … prospects of catching up with West Germany during the post-reunification era. We show, first, that the rates of technical change … account for the fact that East Germany was not the socialist showcase for which it was frequently taken before German …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013247645
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Optimal Income Transfers
Kaplow, Louis - 2010
A substantial literature addresses the design of transfer programs and policies, including the negative income tax, other means-tested transfers, the earned income tax credit, categorical assistance, and work inducements. This work is largely independent of that on the optimal nonlinear income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012761400
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The Welfare State and Migration : A Dynamic Analysis of Political Coalitions
Razin, Assaf - 2015
We develop a dynamic political-economic theory of welfare state and immigration policies, featuring three distinct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013031031
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The Economics of Scale-Up
Davis, Jonathan - 2017
Most randomized controlled trials (RCT) of social programs test interventions at modest scale. While the hope is that promising programs will be scaled up, we have few successful examples of this scale-up process in practice. Ideally we would like to know which programs will work at large scale...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945622
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Insulation of Pensions from Political Risk
Diamond, Peter A. - 2006
There are many sources of political risk to public provision of pensions. This paper analyzes legislation to alter the retirement income system. This approach naturally recognizes that some changes in the system are good responses to social risks, while others generate such risks. Thus the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783964
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Public Economics and Inequality : Uncovering Our Social Nature
Saez, Emmanuel - 2022
This paper argues that the social nature of humans, absent from the standard economic model, is crucial to understand our large modern social states and why concerns about inequality are so pervasive. A social solution arises when a situation is resolved at the group level (rather than the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014089529
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The Economics of Human Development and Social Mobility
Heckman, James J. - 2014
This paper distills and extends recent research on the economics of human development and social mobility. It summarizes the evidence from diverse literatures on the importance of early life conditions in shaping multiple life skills and the evidence on critical and sensitive investment periods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058273
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Trade Adjustment Assistance : Welfare and Incentive Effects of Payments to Displaced Workers
Brander, James A.; Spencer, Barbara J. - 2021
We analyze the welfare effects of conditional trade adjustment assistance (i.e. assistance that is received only if displaced workers remain unemployed), and compare the conditional program with unconditional assistance. Taking the level of assistance as exogenous, we show that either the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013226932