This paper analyses the general equilibrium implications on public education policies in an economy with heterogeneous agents, human capital investment and capital-skill complementarity. Human capital is accumulated through private and public education inputs. Workers choose between being goods workers or human capital workers and are taxed to support public education. The government hires huma...

A variety of parametric and semiparametric models produce qualitatively similar estimates of government policies’ effects on income distribution and welfare (as measured by the Gini, standard deviation of logarithms, relative mean deviation, coefficient of variation, and various Atkinson indexes). Taxes and the Earned Income Tax Credit are an effective way to redistribute income to the poor and...

This study examines the stages of development for county-level e-government implementations in the United States for 344 randomly selected websites. Population size, poverty levels and income levels were examined. Results indicate that most counties have some form of e-government but counties with smaller populations are more likely to have only an online presence with no citizen interaction.

Financial repression entails an implicit taxation on savings. When effective income-tax rates are very uneven, as common in developing countries, raising some government revenue through mild financial repression can be more efficient than collecting income tax only.  2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Community Management informatization is an important component of urban informatiization. Community E-government coordination work platform is the key to community management informatization. This paper proposed a system mode of community E-government coordination work platform, and gave a description of new operation process with the case of Shanghai citizens least income guarantee applying.

Recent literature has contrasted Human Development, described as the ultimate goal of the development process, with economic growth, described as an imperfect proxy for more general welfare, or as a means toward enhanced human development. This debate has broadened the definitions and goals of development but still needs to define the important interrelations between human development (HD) and ...

Using a general equilibrium model with endogenous policy, we explore how heterogeneity affects wasteful lobbying by sectoral interest groups. With the help of a simulation approach, we first investigate the impact of information heterogeneity on how lobbies react to a shift from a soft to a strict government budget constraint. Next, we examine how lobbying is influenced by heterogenous percepti...

Governments in ontario have promised family physicians (fps) that participation in primary care reform would be financially as well as professionally rewarding. We compared work satisfaction, incomes and work patterns of fps practising in different models to determine whether the predicted benefits to physicians really materialized. study participants included 332 fps in ontario practising in f...