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Improving incentives in unemployment insurance : a review of recent research

Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil - 2003

sequencing of benefits), monitoring in conjunction with sanctions, and workfare. Our reading of the theoretical literature is …

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Searching for a "Golden Rule" of economic regulation of an infectious disease

Amundsen, Eirik Schrøder - 2022

This paper investigates whether a "Golden Rule" of regulation of an infectious disease may be elicited that balances the economic control and disease costs when the arrival of a future vaccine or a cure is uncertain. Formulating an optimal control problem applied to standard compartment models...

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The shadow of the neolithic revolution on life expectancy : a double-edged sword

Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Özak, Ömer - 2022

This research explores the persistent effect of the Neolithic Revolution on the evolution of life expectancy in the course of human history. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the onset of the Neolithic Revolution and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered...

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Combatting Covid-19 : on relative performance of the Indian States

Marjit, Sugata; Mukhopadhyay, Anish Kumar; Chatterjee, Medha - 2020

The purpose of this paper is to construct a relative performance index for the States in India in terms of their performance in combatting Covid-19 pandemic. The data is analyzed up to August, 2020, though the methodology used can be readily extended to update the index. The methodology can be...

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Optimal monitoring to implement clean technologies when pollution is random

Macho-Stadler, Inés (contributor); … - 2007

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Monitoring, cross subsidies, and universal banking

Choi, Jay Pil; Stefanadis, Christodoulos - 2015

loans. This practice has an adverse effect on commercial banks' monitoring incentives, encouraging the pursuit of private …

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Black sheep or scapegoats? : implementable monitoring policies under unobservable levels of misbehavior

Buechel, Berno; Mühlheußer, Gerd - 2014

An authority delegates a monitoring task to an agent. It can only observe the number of detected offenders, but neither … the monitoring intensity chosen by the agent nor the resulting level of misbehavior. We provide a necessary and sufficient … condition for the implementability of monitoring policies. Typically, several monitoring intensities give rise to the same …

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Optimal redistribution and monitoring of labor effort

Zoutman, Floris T.; Jacobs, Bas - 2014

This paper extends the Mirrlees (1971) model of optimal non-linear income taxation with a monitoring technology that … the joint determination of the non-linear monitoring and tax schedules and the conditions under which these can be … implemented. Monitoring of labor effort reduces the distortions created by income taxation and raises optimal marginal tax rates …

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Optimal unemployment insurance design : time limits, monitoring, or workfare?

Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil - 2003

of improving the efficiency of UI: the duration of benefit payments, monitoring in conjunction with sanctions, and … monitoring and sanctions restores search incentives most effectively, since it brings additional incentives to search actively so … monitoring and sanctions than in the other two systems. Workfare appears to be inferior to the other two systems. …

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Optimal redistribution in the presence of signaling

Bastani, Spencer; Blumḳin, Tomer; Micheletto, Luca - 2021

We analyze optimal redistribution in the presence of labor market signaling where innate productive ability is not only unobserved by the government, but also by prospective employers. Signaling in both one and two dimensions is considered, where in the latter case firms have an informational...

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