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Why do disability benefit rolls vary between regions? A review of the evidence from the USA and the UK

McVicar, Duncan - In: Regional Studies 40 (2006) 5, pp. 519-533

McVicar D. (2006) Why do disability benefit rolls vary between regions? A review of the evidence from the USA and the UK, Regional Studies 40, 519-533. Over the last 30 years, many Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries have seen a dramatic rise in the share of...

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Incapacity Benefits and Employment Policy

Orszag, J. Michael; Snower, Dennis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

incapacity benefits to provide employment vouchers for employers that hire them. The analysis indicates that introducing this … policy could increase employment, raise the incomes of incapacity benefit recipients, and reduce employers’ labor costs. The … voucher is shown to depend on the size of incapacity benefits, the separation rate in the absence of the voucher, and the …

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The role of the National Bank of Romania in supporting the payment system and protection against the systemic risk

Driga, Imola - In: Annals of the University of Petrosani, Economics 2 (2002), pp. 69-74

As the centre of the clearing and payment system, the National Bank of Romania should interfere into the banking system in order to reduce the possibility that an unexpected failure of a financial institution in fulfilling its payment obligations turns into a major financial crisis leading to...

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Incapacity Benefits versus Benefit Transfers

Orszag, Mike; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

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