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The Effect of Parents' Schooling on Child's Schooling: A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis
de Haan, Monique - 2008
nonparametric bounds analysis based on Manski and Pepper (2000), using the most recent version of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study …
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Modeling Area-Level Health Rankings
Courtemanche, Charles; Soneji, Samir; Tchernis, Rusty - 2013
uncertainty. We use county-level data from Texas and Wisconsin to compare our approach to conventional rankings that assign … deterministic factor weights and ignore uncertainty. Greater discrepancies in rankings emerge for Texas than Wisconsin since the …
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Das Wisconsin-Works-Modell: Vorbild für eine Reform der deutschen Sozialhilfe?
Peter, Waltraut - In: IW-Trends - Vierteljahresschrift zur empirischen … 29 (2002) 2, pp. 55-62
In Wisconsin sorgte die mutige Sozialhilfereform von 1997 dafür, dass der Sozialhilfeetat und die Zahl der … OFFENSIV nähert sich dem Wisconsin-Modell an. Doch wesentliche Elemente für eine dauerhafte Beseitigung der Sozialhilfefalle …
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The impact of Act 10 on public sector compensation in Wisconsin
Biggs, Andrew G.; Richwine, Jason - 2012
After a protracted legal and political battle, on March 11, 2011, the Wisconsin state Legislature passed Act 10, the … powers of collective bargaining and dues collection. This study analyzes public sector salaries and benefits in Wisconsin … government employees receive salaries roughly equal to those paid to private sector Wisconsin employees with similar education …
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National and international developments in technology – Trends, patterns and implications for policy
Koopmann, Georg; Münnich, Felix - 1999
Declining R&D intensities at the national level coincide with growing international technological links. Deviations of individual OECD countries from the average R&D intensity reflect differences in industry structure as well as in sectoral R&D intensity. At the same time, the sectoral...
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The "efficiency defense" in the US American merger policy
Kinne, Konstanze - 1998
Efficiencies have yet not played a prominent role in American merger enforcement policy, although the federal antitrust agencies and the courts have recognized efficiencies as a factor in merger analysis that may tilt the balance in an otherwise anticompetitive transaction. A review of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295347
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EMU and transatlantic economic relations
Kenen, Peter B. - 1998
When I wrote my book on EMU four years ago (Kenen 1995), very little had been written on the international dimensions of EMU There was a chapter in the Commission's path-breaking study (European Commission, 1990). There were papers by Alogoskoufis and Portes (1991, 1992), Cooper (1992), Goodhart...
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Money demand in a banking time economy
Gillman, Max; Otto, Glenn - 2003
The paper presents a theory of the demand for money that combines a special case of the shopping time exchange economy with the cash-in-advance framework. The model predicts that both higher inflation and financial innovation - that reduces the cost of credit - induce agents to substitute away...
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Non-linearities and fractional integration in the US unemployment rate
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alana, Luis A. - 2004
This paper proposes a model of the US unemployment rate which accounts for both its asymmetry and its long memory. Our approach, based on the tests of Robinson (1994), introduces fractional integration and nonlinearities simultaneously into the same framework (unlike earlier studies employing a...
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The Political Economy of US Aid to Pakistan
Anwar, Mumtaz; Michaelowa, Katharina - 2004
Variations of bilateral aid flows are difficult to explain on the basis of official development objectives or recipient need. At the example of US aid to Pakistan, this paper suggests alternative political economic explanations, notably the relevance of ethnic lobbying and the relevance of US...
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