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feature of the main welfare scheme in France (Revenu Minimum d'Insertion, RMI), namely that childless adults under age 25 are …
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We examine the impact of high school graduation on the probability individuals from welfare backgrounds use welfare … their own and their parents' welfare records. We address potential endogeneity problems by: 1) controlling for ability using …- Singer type unobserved heterogeneity estimator. Graduation would reduce welfare receipt of dropoutsby Ý to 3/4. Effects are …
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standards enhances Southern welfare unambiguously. …
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System will have positive effects in terms of GDP and welfare in the selected EU Member States. …
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Recently, early investments in the human capital of children from socially disadvantaged environments have attracted a great deal of attention. In a discrete version of the Mirrlees model with a parents' and a children's generation we show the intra-generational and the inter-generational...
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agglomeration is highest when trade costs are high. Besides this minor problem, the second critical issue concerns the welfare … and underagglomeration when trade costs are low, bringing it in line with other welfare analyses of new economic geography …
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. When regions weigh workers' and capitalists' welfare equally, the core region will set its subsidy low enough that the … industry re- locates to the larger region, restoring an efficient allocation. When workers' welfare is weighted more heavily …
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In the homogenous good case, the relationship between market struc- ture and efficiency was studied extensively. Assuming a standard quadratic utility with quantity competition, this paper carries on the analysis in a differentiated good context. It can be shown that there is a positive re-...
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consumption development and thus average welfare of individual cohorts. The analysis is based on a Ramsey growth model and refers … to the demographic structure in Germany. The model results imply that welfare of cohorts with a life expectancy up to 50 … in the future immigration has a positive influence on welfare. Independently of his life expectancy and year of birth a …
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and social welfare. The consumer welfare criterion suggests that in the market equilibrium individuals purchase too much … insurance against the risk of drug expenses. In contrast, the social welfare criterion suggests that individuals should purchase …
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