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In this research we will focus on three topics which we think are particularly relevant for hospital competition: i) quality, ii) efficiency, and iii) ownership.i) Quality of health care is the most important good of the health production process. The present thesis presents both a theoretical...
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In Chapter 2, "Accounting for Cross-Country Differences in Intergenerational Earnings Persistence: The Impact of Taxation and Public Education Expenditure," I study the determinants of cross-country differences in intergenerational earnings persistence between fathers and sons. Western economies...
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that increased mobility of production factors will pose a severe threat to redistribution possibility is less acute than it …
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I examine the question whether social insurance is an appropriate means of redistribution in the presence of an …
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Statistical income surveys are used to document systemic changes in distribution and redistribution of household income … fourth part documents the increased redistribution of income achieved through taxes and social benefits. The fifth part …
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The question of who benefits and who loses from the transition, the channels and mechanisms of redistribution of wealth … in the post-communist period, and the relation between redistribution and monetary regime are, in our opinion … between the dynamics of redistribution and the change in monetary regime. This is presented in Part 2 and is discussed in Part …
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redistribution of income is connected with serious disincentives, influencing the preferences for work and leisure as well as for …
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This dissertation explores the role of efficiency of redistributive institutions (ERI)on redistribution. The first … between incomeinequality and redistribution. This chapter first shows that even exogenously given ERIaffects the relationship … between income inequality and redistribution. Then, it introducesthree specifications to endogenize ERI. In these various …
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create a “simulated tax redistribution index”, which captures the mechanical impact of the changes in tax policy on the gini … coefficient, but is exogenous to any behavioral response. Analyzing the effect of this redistribution index on inequality, I find … process further, I create a new class of tax redistribution measures, based on the S-Gini, which differentially weight effects …
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period, and inequality is persistent. Inflation in our model is a mechanism of redistribution, and we find that the link …
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