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Provision of public goods in a federalist country: Tiebout competition, fiscal equalization, and incentives for efficiency in Switzerland

Widmer, Philippe; Zweifel, Peter - 2008

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the efficiency of the 26 Swiss cantons over the period 2000 to 2004 applying Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). A Total Public Sector Performance (TPSP) indicator for eight local government activities (administration, public safety, education, culture and...

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Accounting for heterogeneity in the measurement of hospital performance

Widmer, Philippe K.; Zweifel, Peter; Farsi, Mehdi - 2011

correction in the estimation of hospital performance. …

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Selection Bias and the Decomposition of Wage Differentials

Yun, Myeong-Su - 2000

.'' Our approach can be implemented with any kind estimation method as long as we can obtain consistent coefficients for the …

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Returns to Returning

Gang, Ira N.; Co, Catherine Y.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 1999

selection issues are considered in the estimation of the earnings equation; we implement a natural method using MLE. The result …

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Mobility of students and quality of higher education: An empirical analysis of the "Unified Brain Drain" model

Brezis, Elise S.; Soueri, Ariel - 2013

Globalization has led to a vast flow of migration of workers but also of students. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the migration of individuals encompassing decisions already at the level of education. We present a unified brain drain model that incorporates the decisions of an...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335996

Globalization and migration: A "unified brain drain" model

Brezis, Elise S.; Soueri, Ariel - 2012

Globalization has led to a vast flow of migration of workers but also of students. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the migration of individuals encompassing decisions already at the level of education. We develop a unified brain drain model that incorporates the decisions of an...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336067

Productivity gap between tradable and non-tradable industries and duality in higher education

Brezis, Elise S.; Brand, Gilad - 2017

Over the last decades, productivity in the tradable sector rose substantially, while in the non-tradable sector, output per worker has remained the same, despite a similar increase in human capital in both sectors. This paper emphasizes that duality in higher education as well as heterogeneous...

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Is brain drain passé? The optimal timing of migration

Brezis, Elise S. - 2018

This paper sheds a new perspective on models of migration by integrating in a same structure the decisions about education and work; and by incorporating return migration with "brain waste". Brain waste is defined as the depreciation, due to migration, in the human capital acquired in the home...

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Elitism in higher education and inequality: Why are the Nordic countries so special?

Brezis, Elise S. - 2018

This paper shows that countries with high levels of "elitism" in higher-education are the countries displaying high levels of inequality. In other words, a higher level of "elitism", i.e., large gap in quality of universities, and tight selection in top universities leads to a wider gap in wages...

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Should individuals migrate before acquiring education or after? A new model of brain waste vs. brain drain

Brezis, Elise S. - 2019

Should individuals migrate before acquiring education or after? In order to analyze the optimality of the timing of migration, I develop a model of migration, which combines the two migration decisions into a unique model - decisions about where to get an education and decision about where to...

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