Labour Market Regulation in the EU-15: Causes and Consequences – A Survey Why should floors be set under wages and working conditions by labour market regulations? This paper finds that efficiency arguments are questionable, because of the disemployment effects of strict regulation. Regulation is better explained in terms of the choices of the employed semiand unskilled worker group. This group...

Available online 13 May 2008 This paperpresents a difference in the comparative statics of general equilibriummodelswith land when there are finitely many agents, and when there is a continuum of agents. Restricting attention to quasi-linear and Cobb–Douglas utility, it is shown that with finitely many agents, an increase in the (marginal) commuting cost increases land rent per unit (that is, l...

Our research is based on Constraint Handling Rules (CHR), a powerful language for writing constraint solvers. We investigate connuence of CHR programs. This property guarantees that a CHR program will always compute the same result for a given set of constraints independent of which rules are applied. We give a decidable, suucient and necessary syntactic condition for connuence. Finally we pres...

Our research is based on Constraint Handling Rules (CHR), a powerful language for writing constraint solvers. We investigate connuence of CHR programs. This property guarantees that a CHR program will always compute the same result for a given set of constraints independent of which rules are applied. We give a decidable, suucient and necessary syntactic condition for connuence. Finally we pres...

The standard analysis of the efficient management of income taxes and debt assumes a benevolent government and ignores potential distortions arising from rent-seeking politicians. This paper departs from this framework by assuming that a rent-seeking politician chooses policies. If the politician chooses extractive policies, citizens throw him out of power. We analyse the efficient sustainable ...

This paper describes a novel experiment designed to examine how rent dissipation may occur in fisheries in which the right to participate is limited and fishermen compete amongst themselves for shares of an exogenous total allowable catch. We demonstrate that rent dissipation may occur through multiple mechanisms, and that the heterogeneity of fishermen has important implications for how rent d...

This research tries to interpret the results of the empirical analysis of urban land value variations from 1977 to 2012 in the regional Italian capital cities based on the well-known theory of urban land rent. The historical series to be analyzed were obtained as the difference between the market value of a property and its cost of production. The paper shows, in quantitative terms, how differe...

Possibly as a prelude to a mini series of critical review essays, this short paper is intended to revisit and clarify Tullock's contributions to the concept of rent-seeking. Some subsequent contributions are highlighted, so are its implications on social costs and wealth transfers.

This paper reinterprets rent as geographical and argues that it can be mobilized an asset to drive regional development in the form of platforms (GRPs). Framing diverse initiatives Kaikōura, New Zealand (Aotearoa) GRPs, illustrates potential collectively developed oriented place-based enact futures from resourcefulness. It has particular value for rethinking rural regions where Indigenous peopl...