We investigate the effect of institutions on efficiency of training markets. After setting up a theoretical institutional framework that shows how institutions affect efficiency, we apply this framework to the real world. An empirical analysis of institutions affecting training markets will...

Bu çalışmada 2001 yılında illere göre orta öğretim kurumlarında bulunan öğretmen, derslik ve ÖSS’deki başarı sayıları baz alınarak etkinlik analizi yapılmıştır. Ayrıca etkinliğin seviyesini açıklayan değişkenler analiz edilmiş, komşuluğun etkinlik yapısı...

Trends in skill bias and greater turbulence in modern labor markets put wages and employment prospects of unskilled workers under pressure. Weak incentives to utilize and maintain skills over the life-cycle become manifest with the ageing of the population. Reinvention of human capital policies...

This report presents an overview of child policy in Israel. It covers a wide range of services and policies that are intended to further the wellbeing of children in Israel or that have an impact upon the wellbeing of children, including the fields of education, health, cash transfers, taxation...

The paper proposes a theoretical investigation of the impact of welfare on the growth regimes, inspired by new growth theory and recent advances in institutional analysis. It shows the complementarity of Welfare State with the Fordist growth pattern and discusses the reasons of the "Welfare...

This paper draws on recent empirical evidence to look at how human capital policies in New Zealand can achieve "Inclusive Economy" objectives. In particular it looks at evidence on policies that are best to promote growth, and to improve the distribution of well-being; whether they are the same,...

This paper analyzes optimal linear taxes on capital and labour incomes in a life-cycle model of human capital investment, financial savings, and labour supply with heterogenous individuals. A dual income tax with a positive marginal tax rate on not only labour income but also capital income is...

The present paper analyzes one of the advantages that a country can derive from people with higher educational levels, i.e. higher tax revenues resulting from the higher earnings from higher school attainment.More specifically, we test whether the marginal revenue obtained by the public sector...

The present study attempted to provide an answer to the question: how well the school system of education is organized in Russia and which forms are critical for changing qualitative characteristics of the system of general education. One of key research findings was the theme that the...

The present study attempted to provide an answer to the question: how well the school system of education is organized in Russia and which forms are critical for changing qualitative characteristics of the system of general education. One of key research findings was the theme that the...