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We draw some lessons from the Tunisian experience of social reforms and associated civil conflict. Our main interest is the riots that occurred after subsidy cuts and their possible substitution of price subsidies by direct cash transfers. We propose new welfare indicators apt to assess policy...
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transfer schemes on poverty in Tunisia. Three types of price corrections are considered: (a) no corrections; (b) living … from a quadratic almost ideal demand system. Distinguishing these corrections and using data from Tunisia, we study the … correction, whatever its form, may have only limited role for the assessment of anti-poverty policy in Tunisia. Correcting or not …
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In this paper, we study the return to human capital variables for wages of workers observed in Tunisian matched worker-firm data in 1999. We develop a new method based on multivariate analysis of firm characteristics, which allows us most of the benefits obtained by introducing firm dummies in...
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