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The Potential Contribution of Aboriginal Canadians to Labour Force, Employment, Productivity and Output Growth in Canada, 2001-2017
Sharpe, Andrew; Arsenault, Jean-Francois; Lapointe, Simon - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2007
Investing in disadvantaged young people is one of the rare public policies with no equity-efficiency tradeoff. This report estimates the potential benefit for the Canadian economy of increasing the educational attainment level of Aboriginal Canadians. We find that increasing the number of...
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Workshop 3 Report: Institutional and operational reforms within different socio-economic and cultural contexts
Jara-Diaz, Sergio; Merkert, Rico - In: Research in Transportation Economics 48 (2014) C, pp. 205-208
The discussion and conclusions of Thredbo's Workshop 3 are summarized. History and the socio-economic environment is a condition that should be considered as a most important fact when moving into planning public transportation. Contradictory targets should be identified and avoided a priori....
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Health care and fiscal federalism: Paradoxes of recent reform in Italy
Enza, Caruso; Nerina, Dirindin - In: Politica economica - Journal of Economic Policy (PEJEP) (2012) 2, pp. 169-196
allocation system of Essential Levels of Assistance (LEA) among regions, in force from the nineties. By downgrading the weighted … capitation formula the resources allocation will now depend only on two criteria: the age groups of the population and the … used in the capitation formula; the second has no influence on resources allocation given that the overall fund is …
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Equity vs Efficiency in Telecom Spectrum Management in India
Rao, Chapalamadugu Sambasiva - In: Margin: The Journal of Applied Economic Research 1 (2007) 3, pp. 321-335
allocation policy in India requires a number of modifications. Further, the government has selected the market approach for …
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Social security, economic growth and poverty : theoretical considerations and guidelines for institutional arrangements
Butter, Frank A.G. den; Kock, Udo - Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en … - 2001
This paper provides a review of the economic literature on social security systems and of practical experiences with building social security institutions. The focus is on the design of the institutions, and on the complicated relation between social security, economic welfare and economic...
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Turning a Blind Eye: Costly Enforcement, Credible Commitment and Minimum Wage Laws
Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; Kanbur, Ravi - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and … - 2005
In many countries, the authorities turn a blind eye to minimum wage laws that they have themselves passed. But if they are not going to enforce a minimum wage, why have one? Or if a high minimum wage is not going to be enforced one hundred percent, why not have a lower one in the first place?...
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Can individual unemployment savings accounts resolve Okun's equity-efficiency trade-off?
Kock, Udo; Butter, A.G. den - Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en … - 2001
Recently some authors have proposed to introduce a system of individual unemployment savings accounts as an alternative to traditional public unemployment insurance. In this paper we investigate the feasibility of individual accounts as a possible alternative route to address the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004559
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The Effect of Increasing Aboriginal Educational Attainment on the Labour Force, Output and the Fiscal Balance
Sharpe, Andrew; Arsenault, Jean-François; Cowan, Fraser - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2009
Investing in disadvantaged young people is one of the rare public policies with no equity-efficiency tradeoff. Based on the methodology developed in Sharpe, Arsenault and Lapointe (2007), we estimate the effect of increasing the educational attainment level of Aboriginal Canadians on labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004982352
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Should We Use Distributional Weights in CBA When Income Taxes Can Deal with Equity?
Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2001
Kaplow (1996) and others argue forcefully in favor of using the standard cost-benefit test alone, without any distributional concern, given “standard simplifying assumptions.” This paper, on the contrary, demonstrates that distributional weights, equal to the social marginal utility of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005651662
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Turning a Blind Eye: Costly Enforcement, Credible Commitment and Minimum Wage Laws
Basu, Arnab K; Chau, Nancy H; Kanbur, Ravi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
In many countries, the authorities turn a blind eye to minimum wage laws that they have themselves passed. But if they are not going to enforce a minimum wage, why have one? Or if a high minimum wage is not going to be enforced one hundred percent, why not have a lower one in the first place?...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661475