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Jurisdiction Size, Political Participation, and the Allocation of Resources

This paper analyzes the effect of population size on politicalparticipation and allocative efficiency. Increasing populationis generally found to reduce political participation. However,since participation is not evenly spread throughout thepopulation, this will have consequences for allocation.Namely, we argue that increasing population size shifts powerto the rich. We discuss the consequences for ...

Immigrants, Natives and Social Assistance: Comparable Take-Up under Comparable Circumstances

Are immigrants on welfare because they are more likely to be eligible or because they are more likely to claim benefits for which they are eligible? The answer is politically important, but because most current research on immigration and welfare is based on data from the United States, the answer is difficult due to the complexities of the transfer system which make eligibility determinations difficult. ...

Policy Reforms and Productivity Growth in India's Energy Intensive Industries

India had a highly restrictive industrial and trade policy regime until the end of the1960s. This regime while succeeding to some extent in creating a diversified industrial base introduced gross inefficiencies in many sectors of the economy. Beginning in the early 1970s, Indian economic policies have been marked by deregulation, decontrol and progressive liberalization. In this paper, we assess the ...

Pflegebedürftige Personen im Haushalt und das Erwerbsverhalten verheirateter Frauen

Im vorliegenden Beitrag werden die Auswirkungen von pflegebedürftigen Personen im Haushalt auf das Erwerbsverhalten verheirateter Frauen im Alter von 40 bis 65 Jahren untersucht. Als Datengrundlage dient das Sozio- oekonomische Panel. Die empirischen Ergebnisse der Längsschnittanalyse unterstützen die These, dass verheiratete Frauen bei Anwesenheit eines Pflegefalls im Haushalt eine erhöhte Neigung ...

Die Dauer von Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland und Großbritannien: ein internationaler Vergleich (1990-1995)

Messung von Dienstleistungen mit Hilfe von Haushaltsbefragungen

Perspektiven für mehr Jobs in Deutschland

There is no simple solution to the German unemployment dilemma. Neither too high wages, nor unionized central bargaining, nor the evidence of the effects of the welfare state deliver a simple explanation. The East German experience confirms this view. A solution needs to combine flexibility with economic growth. More flexible product markets could help to generate the higher demand for unskilled labour ...

On the Speed and Boundaries of Structural Adjustment when Fiscal Policy Is Tight

Governments of transition economies are subject to fiscal constraints (e.g. credit constraints). However, exaggerated fiscal discipline might feed into the structural adjustment process. The government designs and times the privatisation programme, yet may find itself in a fiscal squeeze because restructuring moves costs from firms to the public budget. This paper models this problem in a simple dynamic ...

Aggregation and Seasonal Adjustment: Empirical Results for EMU Quarterly National Accounts

Ecological Dumping under Monopolistic Competition

The competitive choice of emission taxes by two governments is analysed in a model of monopolostic competition with capital mobility where pollution externalities are regional. Assuming that governments have no other policy instrument apart from emission taxes at their disposal, I show that governments choose inefficiently low (high) taxes if the importance of emissions in production is small (large) ...