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作者：Micklewright, J; Nagy, G
作者单位：Corvinus University Budapest; Budapest University of Technology & Economics
摘要：The single most likely way to leave the unemployment insurance (UI) register in Hungary is not by getting a job but by exhausting entitlement to benefit. Two questions follow. First, what are the implications of the cessation of UI for living standards? Second, does UI exhaustion have much effect on the probability of getting a job through increasing incentives to work? We investigate these issues with a survey of persons exhausting entitlement to UI in summer, 1995, paying special attention t...
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作者：Pecorino, P
作者单位：University of Alabama System; University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
摘要：The ability to cooperate in the provision of a pubic good is analyzed in a repeated game. Holding the level of provision fixed, with quasi-linear utility we find that the critical value of the discount parameter converges to 0 in the limit. Thus, cooperation is feasible in a large market. Next, we allow the level cooperation to be adjusted optimally as the group size increases, both for a specific form of quasi-linear utility and for Cobb-Douglas utility. In each case, we find that there are a...
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作者：Cadsby, CB; Maynes, E
作者单位：University of Guelph; York University - Canada
摘要：This paper examines experimentally the effects of allowing individuals to contribute any desired proportion of their endowments toward a threshold public good. Permitting continuous rather than binary all-or-nothing contributions significantly increases contributions and facilitates provision. A money-back guarantee further encourages provision, especially when the threshold is high. A high threshold discourages provision in the absence, but not in the presence of a money-back guarantee. High ...
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作者：Levinson, A
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：This paper links the theoretical and empirical literatures on interjurisdictional tax and regulatory competition, focusing on the case of state hazardous waste disposal taxes. It begins by demonstrating that local environmental taxes can be inefficient, and that the inefficiency depends on the tax elasticity of polluters' responses. The paper then uses panel data from the Toxics Release Inventory to estimate the magnitude of the tax elasticities, and to demonstrate the empirical relevance of t...
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作者：Farrell, L; Walker, I
作者单位：Keele University
摘要：This paper estimates the demand for lottery tickets using pooled cross section data that contain individual incomes and extensive information about characteristics. One of the cross sections corresponded to a draw which was a 'double rollover' - the jackpot was enhanced by adding the two previous draws' jackpots which had not been won. Together, these datasets provide sufficient observations facing different 'prices' to allow us to estimate the 'price' elasticity as well as the income elastici...
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作者：Checchi, D; Ichino, A; Rustichini, A
作者单位：European University Institute; University of Milan; Tilburg University
摘要：A centralised and egalitarian school system reduces the cost of education for poor families, and so it should reduce income inequality and make intergenerational mobility easier. In this paper we provide evidence that Italy, compared to the USA, displays less income inequality, as expected given the type of school system, but also less intergenerational upward mobility between occupations and between education levels. We explore some of the reasons which can explain this puzzling result and co...
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作者：Baker, M; Payne, AA; Smart, M
作者单位：University of Toronto; University of California System; University of California Davis; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital
摘要：Funding mechanisms for social expenditures are currently being reformed in many countries. While the theoretical implications of these changes are often easily identified, their empirical magnitude is not always as clear. For example, in federal systems social expenditure is often funded by matching grants, and estimates of the effect of varying matching rates on expenditures by sub-national governments vary widely. The ambiguity is due in part to inherent difficulties identifying price and in...
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作者：Kaganovich, M; Zilcha, I
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; Tel Aviv University
摘要：We study the role of government's allocation of tax revenues between two outlays: public investment in education (a transfer to the young generation) and social security benefits to the older generation. In an overlapping generations economy with pay-as-you-go social security and altruistically motivated transfers from parents to children, we analyze how the allocation of the tax revenues between the two outlays affects growth and welfare in competitive equilibria: (a) we obtain comparative dy...
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作者：Quadrini, V
作者单位：Duke University; Duke University
摘要：This paper develops an endogenous growth model with redistributive taxation in which the growth rate of the economy affects the agents' preferences over redistributive policies, and therefore, the equilibrium level of taxation. The main mechanism through which the growth rate affects policy preferences is by changing the ability of the agents to learn their positions in the future distribution of incomes. The main result of the paper is that during periods of growth, the society opts for less ...
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作者：Innes, R
作者单位：University of Arizona
摘要：Many environmental laws encourage firms to self-report their violations to government regulators, rather than subject themselves to probabilistic enforcement. This paper studies self-reporting enforcement regimes when there are ex-post benefits of remediation or clean-up. Remediation benefits are shown to impart two advantages to the use of self-reporting beyond those identified elsewhere. Firstly, whereas non-reporting firms only engage in costly clean-up when they are caught by an enforcemen...
