An ethically flexible evaluation of unemployment insurance reform with constrained and unconstrained models of labour supply

The goal of this dissertation is to illustrate the importance and feasibility of conducting policy evaluations which pay attention to both efficiency and equity. Introducing an equity criterion necessarily involves introducing value judgements, but I suggest that objectivity can be maintained throug...

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Main Author: Phipps, Shelley Ann
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27509