With the f irs t p re s id e n t ia l p r im aries only th ree m on ths aw ay, c a m p u s g ro u p s h av e begun to address rates of stu­ dent voter registration. Newly fo rm e d c a m p u s i n i t i a t iv e N D V otes’08, a n o n p a r t i s a n ed u ca t io n a l cam p a ig n s p o n ­ sored by the Center for Social Concerns, is spearheading the efforts. Senior Mike McKenna, CSC co o rd i...

It is argued that increasing wages will not only attract more nurses to the health sector, but also increase the number of hours worked for those already there. This article focuses on the response of registered nurses employed in the public sector when they are allowed to endogenously choose between jobs in hospitals and primary care and between day and shift work. A structural labour supply m...

This paper explores the optimal interaction between the tax system and unemployment compensation in insuring people against the risks of involuntary unemployment and low ability. To that end, we introduce search unemployment in a model of optimal non-linear income taxation. We ...nd that the optimal search subsidy (i.e. the di¤erence between the in-work bene...t and the unemployment bene...t) i...

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