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In political economics, the impact of institutions on income redistribution is mainly studied by comparing different forms of representative democracy. In this article, we analyze the influence of direct democratic institutions on redistribution first focusing on welfare and nonwelfare spending using yearly panel data for Swiss cantons. Then, we estimate a model, which explains the determinants of ...
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Economic Inquiry
48 (2010), 4, S. 817-840
| Lars P. Feld, Justina A. V. Fischer, Gebhard Kirchgässner
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Decentralisation is often claimed to be effective for improvements in welfare and hence the reduction of poverty but empirical evidence is scarce. This paper seeks to gain further insights into the relationship between decentralisation and welfare by investigating the role of local governments' capacity for household consumption and school enrolment in Uganda. Using household survey data, it finds ...
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Journal of Development Studies
46 (2010), 4, S. 644-661
| Susan Steiner
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The German chemical manufacturing industry experienced major downsizing between 1992 and 2004, with the average size of firms shrinking by nearly half during this period. This study uses modern frontier efficiency analysis to investigate the determinants of this downsizing. Based on reliable census data, the results of this analysis suggest that firms were not primarily concerned with improving technical ...
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Small Business Economics
34 (2010), 4, S. 413-431
| Oleg Badunenko
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We estimate a dynamic structural life-cycle model of employment, non-employment and retirement that includes endogenous accumulation of human capital and intertemporal non-separabilities in preferences. In addition, the model accounts for the effects of income tax, social security contributions and the transfer system on work incentives. The structural parameter estimates are used to evaluate the employment ...
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The Econometrics Journal
13 (2010), 3, S. S99-S125
| Peter Haan, Victoria Prowse
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Introduction to the Special Issue
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Zeitschrift für Familienforschung
22 (2010), 3, S. 261-265
| Christian Schmitt, Heike Trappe
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We perform a comparative analysis of regional growth and convergence in China, Russia and India over the period 1993-2003 by means of non-parametric methods and kernel density estimates. Our results indicate that wealthy regions were largely responsible for the rapid growth in all three countries. For China and India, capital dissipation was identified as the major determinant of regional growth. In ...
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Economics of Transition
18 (2010), 3, S. 539-570
| Oleg Badunenko, Kiril Tochkov
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In this paper, we present a nonparametric comparative efficiency analysis of 179 communal public transport bus companies in Germany (1990-2004). We apply both deterministic data envelopment analysis (DEA) and bootstrapping to test the robustness of our estimates and to test the hypothesis of global and individual constant returns to scale. We find that the average technical efficiency of German bus ...
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Transportation Research Part E
46 (2010), 3, S. 436-445
| Christian von Hirschhausen, Astrid Cullmann
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We analyze the role of distance to the nearest university in the demand for higher education in Germany. Distance could matter due to transaction costs or due to neighbourhood effects. We use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) combined with a database on university postal codes to estimate a discrete choice model of the demand for higher education. We show that - controlling for other ...
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Economics of Education Review
29 (2010), 3, S. 470-479
| C. Katharina Spieß, Katharina Wrohlich
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This paper studies risk attitudes of unemployed job seekers and their relationship to self-reported reservation wages. We find that risk aversion is prevalent, and that reservation wages decrease slightly over time. Furthermore, risk aversion and reservation wages are negatively correlated.
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Economics Letters
106 (2010), 3, S. 223-226
| Markus Pannenberg
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We consider two different approaches to describe the formation of social networks under mutual consent and costly communication. First, we consider a network-based approach; in particular Jackson-Wolinsky's concept of pairwise stability. Next, we discuss a non-cooperative game-theoretic approach, through a refinement of the Nash equilibria of Myerson's consent game. This refinement, denoted as monadic ...
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Mathematical Social Sciences
60 (2010), 3, S. 181-185
| Robert P. Gilles, Sudipta Sarangi