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作者：Auriol, Emmanuelle; Brilon, Stefanie
作者单位：Universite de Toulouse; Universite Toulouse 1 Capitole; Toulouse School of Economics; Goethe University Frankfurt
摘要：Two types of intrinsically motivated workers are considered: good workers care about the mission of an organization, whereas bad workers derive pleasure from destructive behavior. Compared to the case with only good motivated workers, the mission-oriented sector has to resort to higher monitoring to deter bad workers from entering the sector. In equilibrium, bad workers work in the for-profit sector where they behave like normal people, while good workers self-select into the mission-oriented ...
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作者：Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Woessmann, Ludger
作者单位：University of Passau; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; University of Munich; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; IZA Institute Labor Economics
摘要：Does the Internet undermine social capital, such as real-world inter-personal relations and civic engagement? Merging unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individual-level data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects social capital. A first identification strategy uses first-differencing to account for unobserved time-invariant individual heterogeneity. A second identification strategy exploits a quasi-experiment in East Germany created by a mistaken technology choice of ...
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作者：Cockx, Bart; Ghirelli, Corinna; Van der Linden, Bruno
作者单位：Ghent University; Universite Catholique Louvain; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut
摘要：DellaVigna and Paserman (2005) and Paserman (2008) have shown that imposing job search requirements on sophisticated unemployed benefit claimants with hyperbolic time preferences is Pareto improving in that it raises welfare for the unemployed, by limiting harmful procrastination, and for employees, since the enhanced search boosts the job finding rate, thereby reducing the contributions required for the funding of benefits. This paper demonstrates that the range of Pareto improvements is much...
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作者：Michau, Jean-Baptiste
作者单位：Institut Polytechnique de Paris; Ecole Polytechnique
摘要：In this paper, I characterize the optimal redistribution policy in a simple life-cycle framework with both an intensive and an extensive margin of labor supply. The extensive margin corresponds to the choice of a retirement age. The optimal allocation cannot be implemented in a decentralized economy by a standard non-linear income tax alone. It can however be implemented by a history-dependent social security system which redistributes resources across agents. A calibration of the model to the...
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作者：Polsky, Daniel; David, Guy; Yang, Jianing; Kinosian, Bruce; Werner, Rachel M.
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：The consequences of government regulation in the post-acute care sector are not well understood. We examine the effect of entry regulation on quality of care in home health care by analyzing the universe of hospital discharges during 2006 for publicly insured beneficiaries (about 4.5 million) and subsequent home health admissions to determine whether there is a significant difference in home health utilization, hospital readmission rates, and health care expenditures in states with and without...
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作者：Arve, Malin
作者单位：University of Mannheim
摘要：This paper studies the relationship between a financially constrained firm and a stronger opponent who is not cash-constrained when these firms repeatedly compete in a procurement context. We characterize and discuss the procurement agency's optimal strategy when faced with such asymmetric firms. We highlight a trade-off between the long-run benefits from competition and the short-run benefits from reduced costs. Finally, we show that to reduce costs in the short run, the financially weak firm...
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作者：Epple, Dennis; Romano, Richard
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University; National Bureau of Economic Research; State University System of Florida; University of Florida
摘要：Two significant challenges hamper the analyses of the collective choice of educational vouchers. One is the multidimensional choice set arising from the interdependence of the voucher, public education spending, and taxation. Second, even absent a voucher, preferences over public spending are not single-peaked; a middling level of public school spending may be less attractive to a household than either high public school spending or private education coupled with low public spending. We show t...
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作者：Hyytinen, Ari; Saarimaa, Tuukka; Tukiainen, Janne
作者单位：University of Jyvaskyla; VATT Institute for Economic Research
摘要：We analyze how anticipated changes in the electoral vulnerability of municipal councilors affect their voting behavior over municipal mergers. The electoral vulnerability changes due to a merger because it changes the composition of political competitors and the number of available seats in the next election. We use this variation for identification and find that the smaller the increase in the electoral vulnerability of a councilor, the more likely he is to vote for the merger. The documented...
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作者：Ujhelyi, Gergely
作者单位：University of Houston System; University of Houston
摘要：Civil service rules governing the selection and motivation of bureaucrats are among the defining institutions of modern democracies. Although this is an active area of reform in the US and elsewhere, economic analyses of the issue are virtually nonexistent. This paper provides a welfare evaluation of civil service reform. It describes the effect of reform on the interaction of politicians, voters, and bureaucrats, and shows that society often faces trade-offs between improving the bureaucracy ...
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作者：Andersen, Jorgen Juel; Fiva, Jon H.; Natvik, Gisle James
作者单位：BI Norwegian Business School; Norges Bank
摘要：Most theories of voter behavior predict that electoral participation will be higher in elections where more is at stake. We test this prediction by studying how participation is affected by exogenous variation in local governments' financial flexibility to provide pork for their voters. Utilizing simultaneous elections for different offices, we identify a positive effect of election stakes on participation: Higher stakes at the local level increase participation at the local relative to the re...
