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This Working Paper outlines claims about the "future of work" (as the shorthand for work and employment) and the policy responses to those claims. It is based on a review of the academic and grey literatures on digitalisation and the future of work. The paper first explains the two main...
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This Working Paper outlines claims about the "future of work" (as the shorthand for work and employment) and the policy responses to those claims. It is based on a review of the academic and grey literatures on digitalisation and the future of work. The paper first explains the two main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114075
Families with disabled children are susceptible to poverty because low income is compounded by high costs. Combing caring with employment is extremely difficult, so families are heavily reliant upon benefits. But do disability benefits provide financial security for families who are susceptible...
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Families with disabled children are susceptible to poverty because low income is compounded by high costs. Combing caring with employment is extremely difficult, so families are heavily reliant upon benefits. But do disability benefits provide financial security for families who are susceptible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126455
analysed. Heckman two-step estimates show that households respond to forest scarcity, as measured by the opportunity costs of …
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virtual water volumes are lumped together from countries experiencing vastly different degrees of water scarcity. We therefore … incorporate water scarcity into assessments of virtual water flows. Second, we note that some previous studies assess virtual … scarcity. We find that the structure of global virtual water networks changes significantly after adjusting for water scarcity …
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This essay deals with the relationship between stagflation and the process of restructuring. The literature dealing with the interaction of stagnation and inflation is invariably based on some explicit or implicit assumptions about economic structure, but there are very few writings which...
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results. First, we demonstrate that scarcity of cognitive resources leads to passive behavior. Second, policies that encourage …
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pricing with scarcity in the form of capacity constraints. Rational expectations equilibrium solutions are constructed and …
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This article analyzes the behavioral effects of unemployment benefits (UB) and it characterizes their optimal level when jobless people, who can carry out a subsistence activity, only survive if they have access to a minimum consumption level. Our model shows that if the level of UB is low...
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