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Many targeted childhood interventions such as the Perry Preschool Project select eligible children based on a risk score. The variables entering the risk score and their corresponding weights are usually chosen ad hoc and are unlikely to be optimal. This paper develops a simple economic model...
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social policy and proposed a technique for assessing its efficiency on the basis of a comparative analysis of the dynamics of … efficiency of social policy is determined using a system of indicators combined into eight areas of economic and social policy … and recommendations are drawn to improve this technique further.The research on Latvia's efficiency of social policy …
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unit production costs where increasing labor costs are expected to generate increases in the level of efficiency and … provoking higher levels of efficiency and higher rates of technical change.Such alternative modeling suggests that the …
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This study investigates the efficiency of the process of benefit determination for welfare recipients in Germany. A … stochastic frontier analysis is used to compute (in)efficiency of Jobcenter (employment offices) in terms of average processing … considered by analyzing the share of upheld opposition because of misapplication of the laws. No effect of the (in)efficiency …
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This study investigates the efficiency of the process of benefit determination for welfare recipients in Germany. A … stochastic frontier analysis is used to compute (in)efficiency of Jobcenter (employment offices) in terms of average processing … considered by analyzing the share of upheld opposition because of misapplication of the laws. No effect of the (in)efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242318
This paper derives estimates of the efficiency of welfare spending in Slovenia and the other OECD countries from data … among OECD countries for output efficiency: for a given level of spending outcomes fall short by around 3.5% in health care … 18th to 27th in the OECD for input efficiency as the same outcomes could be reached by scaling back costs by around half …
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)Efficiency and equity are the two aspects of pension system ,and the aging problem,labor productivity,ma- croeconomic environment …,et al. will affect the relationship between efficiency and equity.(2)Parameter adjusting and Structure reforming is a good … important ,but also the efficiency,the disequilibrium of capital market and labor market can be improved through pension …
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to improve spending efficiency and contain future spending pressures. The analysis benchmarks spending in Lithuania …
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This article presents a benchmarking model for measuring the efficiency of organizations that provide humanitarian aid …
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Self-targeting welfare programs have received increasing attention from economists and policy-makers alike. This paper provides evidence on the redistributive impact of transferring low quality goods in-kind. I study a school feeding program in Jamaica, which distributes a bland snack to all...
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