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Góra, Marek; Palmer, Edward - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

what are the risks of the four alternative pension systems: financial defined contribution (FDC), notional or non … conclusion is that NDC is neutral in terms of externalities. It manages the risks and eliminates the negative externalities …

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The Meaning of Failed Replications: A Review and Proposal

Clemens, Michael A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

The welcome rise of replication tests in economics has not been accompanied by a single, clear definition of replication. A discrepant replication, in current usage of the term, can signal anything from an unremarkable disagreement over methods to scientific incompetence or misconduct. This...

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What Drives Taxi Drivers? A Field Experiment on Fraud in a Market for Credence Goods

Balafoutas, Loukas; Beck, Adrian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

measure different types of fraud and to examine the influence of passengers' presumed information and income on the extent of … fraud. Results reveal that taxi drivers cheat passengers in systematic ways: Passengers with inferior information about …. Higher income seems to lead to more fraud. …

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Regulation of Pharmaceutical Prices: Evidence from a Reference Price Reform in Denmark

Kaiser, Ulrich; Méndez, Susan J.; Rønde, Thomas; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Reference prices constitute a main determinant of patient health care reimbursement in many countries. We study the effects of a change from an "external" (based on a basket of prices in other countries) to an "internal" (based on comparable domestic products) reference price system. We find...

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Job Quality in Segmented Labor Markets: The Israeli Case

Neuman, Shoshana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Till the early-1990s the collectively-bargained labor contract (between the trade-union that presented the employees, and the employer or the employers'-association) was the norm, granting salaried workers a stable and protected labor contract. Thereafter, and more significantly after 1995, the...

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How Do Drug Prices Respond to a Change from External to Internal Reference Pricing? Evidence from a Danish Regulatory Reform

Kaiser, Ulrich; Méndez, Susan J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

find significant effects on our acute treatment. Moreover, the reform did only affect generics and did not impact original …

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Doctors Without Borders: The Returns to an Occupational License for Soviet Immigrant Physicians in Israel

Kugler, Adriana D.; Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Re-licensing requirements for professionals that move across borders are widespread. In this paper, we measure the returns to an occupational license using novel data on Soviet trained physicians that immigrated to Israel. An immigrant re-training assignment rule used by the Israel Ministry of...

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Conceptualising Informality: Regulation and Enforcement

Kanbur, Ravi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

specified regulation(s). Relative to the regulation(s), four conceptual categories that can help frame the analysis are: (A …) regulation applicable and compliant, (B) regulation applicable and non-compliant, (C) regulation non-applicable after adjustment … of activity, and (D) regulation non-applicable to the activity. Rather than use the generic labels 'informal' and 'formal …

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Corruption and the Shadow Economy: An Empirical Analysis

Dreher, Axel; Schneider, Friedrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption and shadow economy are substitutes in high income countries while they are complements in low income countries. The hypotheses are tested for a crosssection of 120 countries and a...

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Cognitive Ability and Paternalism

Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

sufficient intelligence by people with limited intelligence may dominate government regulation. …

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