42 research outputs found
Optimal unemployment benefit policy and the firm productivity distribution
This paper provides a novel justification for a declining time profile of unemployment benefits that does not rely on moral hazard or consumption-smoothing considerations. We consider a simple search environment with homogeneous workers and low- and high-productivity firms. By introducing a declining time profile of benefits, the government can affect the equilibrium wage profile in a manner that enhances the sorting of workers across low- and high-productivity firms. We demonstrate that optimal government policy depends on the dispersion and skewness of the firms’ productivity distribution
Decomposing productivity patterns in a conditional convergence framework
Conditional convergence, Shift-share decomposition, SUR estimation, C13, C21, C23, O18, O47,
Determinants of nonurgent use of the emergency department for pediatric patients in 12 hospitals in Belgium
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