This paper reviews international experiences with the implementation of wage subsidies and develops a policy framework to guide their design in developing countries. The evidence suggests that, if the goal is only to create jobs, wage subsidies are unlikely to be an effective instrument. Wage subsidies, however, could have a role in helping first-time job seekers or those who have gone through ...

The Affordable Medicines Facility for malaria (AMFm) was conceived as a global market-based mechanism to increase access to effective malaria treatment and prolong effectiveness of artemisinin. Although results from a pilot implementation suggested that the subsidy was effective in increasing access to high-quality artemisinin combination therapies (ACTs), the Global Fund has converted AMFm int...

To reduce equilibrium unemployment targeted hiring subsidies and profiling techniques for long-term unemployed are often recommended. To analyze the effects of these two instruments, our model combines two search methods: the public employment service and random search, jobseekers choose between an active and a passive search strategy, while labour market policy has two options available. First...

Although the study of resource subsidies has emerged as a key topic in both ecosystem and food web ecology, the dialogue over their role has been limited by separate approaches that emphasize either subsidy quantity or quality. Considering quantity and quality together may provide a simple, but previously unexplored, framework for identifying the mechanisms that govern the importance of subsidi...

Due to persistent high unemployment, inflationary pressures, the costs associated with public sector jobs, and a desire to limit the size of government, contemporary labor market strategy has focused on stimulating employment opportunities for the economically disadvantaged by reducing the costs of labor through wage bill subsidies to private employees. The WIN and Targeted Jobs Tax Credit prog...

This paper explores whether perceptions about distributive inequity shape public support for energy transition policies. The introduction of electric vehicles (EVs) is an important policy priority the decarbonization road transportation. Because high sticker prices restrict EV sales, governments offer consumers subsidies. However, some are concerned that subsidies may favor certain groups and i...

Little is known about electric vehicle (EV) demand by low- and middle-income households. In this paper, we exploit a policy that provides exogenous variation in large EV subsidies targeted at the mass market California. Using transaction-level data, estimate three important parameters: rate of subsidy pass-through, impact on adoption, elasticity for EVs among Demand our sample price-elastic (?2...