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Money or Joy: The Choice of Educational Type
Alstadsæter, Annette; Kolm, Anne-Sofie; Larsen, Birthe - 2005
associated with high consumption value and low effort. This increases the skill mismatch and aggregate unemployment in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012142317
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The heterogeneous effects of social assistance and unemployment insurance : evidence from a life-cycle model of family labor supply and savings
Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - 2023
by age, education, wealth, sex and household composition. In aggregate, social assistance dominates unemployment …We empirically analyze the heterogeneous welfare effects of unemployment insurance and social assistance. We estimate a … unemployment insurance is reduced. A revenue-neutral rebalancing of social support away from unemployment insurance and toward …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014373654
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Does Active Labour Market Policy Reduce Unemployment when Search is Endogenous?
Filges, Trine; Larsen, Birthe - 2000
We analyse the effects active labour market programmes (ALMPs) have on unemployment in a union wage-setting framework … case where ALMPs increase match efficiency of the marginalized workers, and show that ALMPs may increase unemployment. …
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More schooling and more learning? : effects of a three-year conditional cash transfer program in Nicaragua after 10 years
Barham, Tania Catherine Jane; Macours, Karen; Maluccio, … - 2013
CCT programs have become the anti-poverty program of choice in many developing countries. Numerous evaluations, often based on rigorous experimental designs, leave little doubt that such programs can increase enrollment and grades attained––in the short term. But evidence is notably lacking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303245
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Six years of Comunidades Solidarias Rurales : impacts on school entry of an ongoing conditional cash transfer program in El Salvador
Sanchez Chico, Ana; Macours, Karen; Maluccio, John A.; … - 2018
Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs are important anti-poverty programs in Latin America and the Caribbean. There is little evidence, however, of the effectiveness of ongoing CCT programs several years after they have begun. Such evidence is particularly relevant for policymakers because...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011883459
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The long-term impacts of Honduras' CCT program : higher education and international migration
Molina Millán, Teresa; Macours, Karen; Maluccio, John A.; … - 2019
Conditional cash transfer programs have become a popular social protection tool in developing countries. They aim to reduce short-term poverty through cash transfers and long-term poverty through enhancing investments in human capital. While numerous evaluations of CCTs show positive short-term...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012167967
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Competitive equilibrium and optimal capacity matrix in electricity markets with renewables
Moita, Rodrigo; Monte, Daniel - 2019
This paper develops a dynamic model of competitive equilibrium in electricity markets with thermal, hydro and …
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Properties of a non-competitive electricity market dominated by hydroelectric power
Førsund, Finn R.; Hoel, Michael - 2004
electricity, or on the supply of alternative electricity sources. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603297
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A comparison between shale gas in China and unconventional fuel development in the United States : health, water and environmental risks
Farah, Paolo D.; Tremolada, Riccardo - 2013
China is appraised to have the world's largest exploitable reserves of shale gas, although several legal, regulatory, environmental and investment-related issues will likely restrain its scope. China's capacity to successfully face these hurdles and produce commercial shale gas will have a...
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Competition policy and exit rates : evidence from Switzerland
Bühler, Stefan (contributor); Kaiser, Christian (contributor) - 2004 - March 2004, revised April 2005
This paper provides evidence on the relation between the intensity of product market competition and the probability of … product market competition and the probability of exit. -- competition intensity ; exit ; natural experiment …
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