Title:Sustainable Social Spending and Stagnant Public Services: Baumol's Cost Disease Revisited
Author(s):VAN DER PLOEG, FrederickDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:If demand for human services is inelastic or manufactured goods are necessities, labor shifts from manufacturing to services and the budget share of services rises. Higher productivity growth in the market sector pushes ...
Title:Do Conditional Benefits Reduce Equilibrium Unemployment?
Author(s):VAN DER PLOEG, FrederickDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Although unconditional unemployment benefits destroy jobs in competitive and noncompetitive labor markets, conditional benefits can spur job growth in noncompetitive labor markets. Unconditional benefits reduce the penalty ...
Title:Getting European Universities into Shape
Author(s):JACOBS, Bas; VAN DER PLOEG, FrederickDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Most European universities lag behind the best universities in the Anglo-Saxon world. A key challenge is to raise resources per student in Europe to US levels. The Lisbon agenda demands fundamental reform of the European ...
Title:Rolling Back the Public Sector: Differential Effects on Employment, Investment, and Growth
Author(s):VAN DER PLOEG, FrederickDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The macroeconomic effects of different ways of rolling back the welfare state are analysed. Cutting public spending on market goods induces a lower interest rate, a higher wage, a lower capital stock, and a fall in employment. ...
Title:Getting European Universities into Shape
Author(s):JACOBS, Bas; VAN DER PLOEG, FrederickDate:2006Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCAS PP
Title:Guide to reform of higher education: a European perspective
Author(s):JACOBS, Bas; VAN DER PLOEG, FrederickDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Although there are exceptions, most European universities and institutions of higher education find it difficult to compete with the best universities in the Anglo-Saxon world. Despite the Bologna Agreement and the ambitions ...
Title:The Economics of Books
Author(s):CANOY, Marcel F. M.; VAN DER PLOEG, FrederickDate:2006Type of Publication:Contribution to book
