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The Character of Telework and the Characteristics of Teleworkers

Haddon, Leslie; Brynin, Malcolm - 2014

A flexible definition of teleworking suggests that it is more widespread than is generally believed. However, is telework technologically driven? This is tested with data from six countries. As the categories of the definition have distinctive social characteristics, telework seems to reflect...

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Characterising the Financial Cycle : Don't Lose Sight of the Medium Term!

Drehmann, Mathias - 2014

We characterize empirically the financial cycle using two approaches: analysis of turning points and frequency-based filters. We identify the financial cycle with the medium-term component in the joint fluctuations of credit and property prices; equity prices do not fit this picture well. We...

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An Age Perspective on Economic Well-Being and Social Protection in Nine OECD Countries

Dang, Thai-Thanh; Immervoll, Herwig; Mantovani, Daniela; … - 2021

This paper quantifies the economic well-being of different age groups and the extent of their reliance on incomes from public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income levels and disparities across different age groups....

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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2021

, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact … - Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …

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Peer Effects in European Primary Schools : Evidence from Pirls

Ammermueller, Andreas; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2021

We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...

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Ehrbare Staaten? : die Ergebnisse der Generationenbilanzierung im internationalen Vergleich

Hagist, Christian; Moog, Stefan; Raffelhüschen, Bernd; … - 2009

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Were Trade and Factor Mobility Substitutes in History?

Collins, William J.; O'Rourke, Kevin H.; Williamson, … - 2021

Trade theorists have come to understand that their theory is ambiguous on the question: Are trade and factor flows substitutes? While this sounds like an open invitation for empirical research, hardly any serious econometric work has appeared in the literature. This paper uses history to fill...

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Optimal rent extraction in pre-industrial England and France : default risk and monitoring costs

Priks, Mikael (contributor) - 2005

Beginning in the mid-seventeenth century, England changed its system of raising revenues from tax farming, combined with the granting of monopolies, to direct collection within the government administration. Rents were then transferred from tax farmers and monopolists to the central government...

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Alte und neue Wege des Gemeinschaftsmarketings für Agrarprodukte und Lebensmittel

Kliebisch, Christoph; Rügge, Matthias - 2007

Gemeinschaftsmarketing für Agrarprodukte und Lebensmittel ist spätestens seit der Ein-führung des Absatzfondsgesetzes im Jahr 1969 das zentrale Instrument zur Absatzförde-rung in der Agrar- und Ernährungswirtschaft. Institutionalisiert in der Centralen Marketing-Gesellschaft der Deutschen...

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Produktionsmittelbesteuerung der Landwirtschaft in ausgewählten EU-Partnerländern : Forschungsvorhaben der Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung

Parsche, Rüdiger; Nam, Chang-woon; Radulescu, Doina; … - 2004

Das ifo Institut untersuchte im Auftrag der Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung (BLE) die Besteuerung … steuerpolitischen Instrumentariums zur Umstrukturierung der Landwirtschaft. Für die untersuchten Ländern wurde aufgezeigt, welche … Staaten im Bereich der Landwirtschaft ökologisch orientierte Steuern auf Produktionsmittel einsetzen und welches …

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