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Assessing the Redistributive Impact of Higher Education Tuition Fees Reforms: The Case of Québec [PDF]
In this article, we analyze the redistributive impact of a recent reform of tuition fees in Quebec. We adapt Duclos, Makdissi and Wodon's (2005) methodology to a Generalized Lorenz framework.
Myra Yaxbeck, Paul Makdissi
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Fuzzy c-means as a regularization and maximum entropy approach [PDF]
, 1997 the seventh International Fuzzy Systems Association World Congress, June 25-29, 1997, University of Economics, Prague, Czech ...
Miyamoto Sadaaki +2 more
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The wage elasticity of labour demand in the Uruguayan manufacturing sector after re-unionisation: new results [PDF]
This paper provides new evidence on the magnitude of the elasticity of substitution between labour and capital for the Uruguayan manufacturing sector. Labour demand is derived using a right-to-manage model estimated for the period 1985-1997 using data ...
Adriana Cassoni
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The X(3872) and other X,Y,Z Resonances as Hidden Charm Meson-Meson Molecules
, 2011 We report on some ideas concerning the nature of the X(3872) resonance and the need for approximately equal charged and neutral components of $D \bar{D}^* +cc$. Then we discuss how some hidden charm states are obtained from the interaction between vector
Arriola, E. Ruiz +6 more
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Classical Horizontal Inequities in the Provision of Agricultural Income Support [PDF]
This paper explores the redistributive effect of classical horizontal inequities induced by agricultural support policy. Within farm type horizontal inequity (HI) is associated with differences in the level of support received by farms of a given type ...
Allanson, Paul
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A Cat Bond Premium Puzzle? [PDF]
Catastrophe Bonds whose payoffs are tied to the occurrence of natural disasters offer insurers the ability to hedge event risk through the capital markets that could otherwise leave them insolvent if concentrated solely on their own balance sheets.
Howard C. Kunreuther, Vivek J. Bantwal
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Maximally Supersymmetric Planar Yang-Mills Amplitudes at Five Loops
, 2007 We present an ansatz for the planar five-loop four-point amplitude in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in terms of loop integrals. This ansatz exploits the recently observed correspondence between integrals with simple conformal properties and ...
B. Eden +13 more
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Economic Analysis of MGNREGA in the Drought–prone States of Karnataka, Rajasthan and Irrigation–dominated State of Andhra Pradesh [PDF]
Using macro level data on MGNREGA performance in drought-prone states of Karnataka and Rajasthan as well as in irrigation-dominated state of Andhra Pradesh, this study has revealed that the impact of MGNREGA wage on the economic scarcity of labour is ...
Indumati, S., Murthy, P.S. Srikantha
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The Fiscal Costs of Unemployment Insurance
EconomíaThis paper studies the fiscal costs of unemployment insurance (UI). It surveys alternative methods used in the literature to estimate the impact of UI on government budgets and compares them within a unified framework that incorporates behavioral ...
Joaquín Herrera +2 more
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