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Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledge-intensive activities and depends positively on intellectual property, a social planner which cares about income distribution may in principle want to use a reduction in Intellectual Property Rights...

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Poverty in the Transition: Social Expenditures and the Working-Age Poor

Klugman, Jeni; Micklewright, John; Redmond, Gerry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Europe and the former Soviet Union considerable scope to devote increased resources to tackling poverty. We review the extent … and nature of poverty across the transition countries, emphasising the phenomenon of the working-age poor. We consider … unemployment benefit schemes in the CIS would aid labour market reform and hence help solve the problem there of in-work poverty …

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Do Rural Banks Matter? Evidence from the Indian Social Banking Experiment

Burgess, Robin; Pande, Rohini - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

exploit this fact to identify the impact of opening a rural bank on poverty and output. Our estimates suggest that the Indian … rural branch expansion programme significantly lowered rural poverty, and increased non-agricultural output. …

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Redistribution and Education Subsidies are Siamese Twins

Bovenberg, A Lans; Jacobs, Bas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

We develop a model of human capital formation with endogenous labour supply and heterogeneous agents to explore the optimal level of education subsidies along with the optimal progressive schedule of the labour income tax and optimal capital income taxes. Subsidies on education ensure efficiency...

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Earnings, Schooling and Economic Reform: New Econometric Evidence

Campos, Nauro F; Jolliffe, Dean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

How does the relationship between earnings and schooling change with the introduction of comprehensive economic reform? This Paper uses a unique dataset (covering about 3 million Hungarian wage earners, from 1986 to 1998) and a novel procedure to correct sample selection bias (based on DiNardo,...

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Human Capital in Growth Regressions: How Much Difference Does Data Quality Make? An Update and Further Results

de la Fuente, Angel; Doménech, Rafael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We construct estimates of educational attainment for a sample of OECD countries using previously unexploited sources. We follow a heuristic approach to obtain plausible time profiles for attainment levels by removing sharp breaks in the data that seem to reflect changes in classification...

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Intergenerational Transfer of Human Capital and Optimal Education Policy

Cremer, Helmuth; Pestieau, Pierre - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper studies the design of education policies in a setting of successive generations with heterogeneous individuals (high and low earning ability). Parents’ investment in education is motivated by warm-glow altruism and determines the probability that a child has high ability. Education...

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Human Capital In Growth Regressions: How Much Difference Does Data Quality Make?

de la Fuente, Angel; Doménech, Rafael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

We construct a revised version of the Barro and Lee (1996) data set for a sample of OECD countries using previously unexploited sources and following a heuristic approach to obtain plausible time profiles for attainment levels by removing sharp breaks in the data that seem to reflect changes in...

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Educational Attainment in the OECD, 1960-95

de la Fuente, Angel; Doménech, Rafael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This document describes the construction of series on the educational attainment of the adult population in a sample of 21 OECD countries for the period 1960-95. These series are a revised version of the data set described in de la Fuente and Doménech (2000).

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After, Before and During: Returns to Education in Hungary (1986-1998)

Campos, Nauro F; Jolliffe, Dean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

How valuable are the skills acquired under socialism in a market economy? This Paper throws light on this question using unique data covering the years before and during transition (1986-98) for about 3 million Hungarian wage earners. We find that returns to a year of schooling increased by 75%...

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