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The German Federal government has allowed some regions (Approved Local Providers) to be solely responsible for the care of long-term unemployed. The remaining regions had to form Joint Local Agencies, where the local social benefit administrations work together with the local public employment...
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In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...
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new housing supply can improve housing affordability. In the model, equilibrium rental rates are determined so that the … neighborhood. We find that the rent elasticity is low, and thus marginal reductions in supply constraints alone are unlikely to … level of amenities in a neighborhood—as in a Rosen-Roback spatial equilibrium framework—than by the supply of housing …
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uncertainty about the identifying assumptions themselves. We use this approach to revisit the importance of shocks to oil supply … and demand. Supply disruptions turn out to be a bigger factor in historical oil price movements and inventory accumulation … a smaller factor than implied by earlier estimates. Supply shocks lead to a reduction in global economic activity after …
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This paper theoretically analyzes and empirically investigates the importance of local interaction between individuals of different linguistic groups for the provision of public goods at the national level. Depending on whether local interaction mitigates or reinforces antagonism towards other...
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We characterize the Pareto-frontier in a simple Mirrleesian model of income taxation. We show how the second-best frontier which incorporates incentive constraints due to private information on productive abilities relates to the first-best frontier which takes only resource constraints into...
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In this paper we examine the potential of democratic constitutions for the provision of divisible public goods in a large economy. Our main insights are as follows: When aggregate shocks are absent, the combination of the following rules yields first-best allocations: a supermajority rule, equal...
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