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Provincial governments in the Netherlands have only one general tax at their disposal. However, it has become an …
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The Dutch social protection system has been under reconstruction from the early 1980s. After describing the structure of the current system and addressing recent developments as to the treatment of families and individuals, the paper presents three scenarios that could develop in future years....
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for this version, additional price date for England. For the southern Netherlands, I have utilized Herman Van der Wee … prices. And yet indisputably the southern Netherlands had a much more industrialized and more rapidly growing economy than … did England, at least until the Revolt of the Netherlands (1568-1609). The concept of ‘profit inflation’ is not, therefore …
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This paper presents an analysis of the procurement of transportation services for the disabled by the town of Ridderkerk. The method used consisted of a study of the town’s files and interviews with 11 persons involved. The tender specifications were peculiar in that they required bidders to...
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This paper investigates which different views have occurred on the main lines of the Dutch incomes policy. To this end the implications of the incomes policies pursued by different cabinets have been analyzed, mainly since 1973. It appears that distributive policies are heavily influenced by a...
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Traditionally, governments used to deploy input-based budgeting systems and cash-based accounting systems. However, these systems do not provide the information that is necessary for a government to operate efficiently and effectively. Therefore, a growing number of countries have already...
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the riskier crisis-prone ones behind. This paper analyses these debates using the case study of the Netherlands in the … early 1920s. The literature argues that it is during this decade that the Netherlands experienced her one and only … conducts a matched pair comparison of two similar-sized banks operating in the Netherlands in the 1920s: the Amsterdamsche Bank …
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system of the Netherlands. Most observers point in particular to the relatively low unemployment rate to indicate the success … of this model. However, the economic inactivity rate in the Netherlands is not lower than in neighboring countries. This … suggests that open unemployment in the Netherlands has partly been replaced with hidden unemployment. In particular the …
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Netherlands in 1995, about 11 per cent of workers was working in a fixed-term temporary job and about 37 per cent of workers was ….The labour market in the Netherlands is characterised by quite some mobility between the various labour market states. The high …
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Budgets have to meet a number of principles in order to fulfil their functions properly. This paper focuses on two of these budget principles. First, it addresses the principle of unity and universalism. More in particular, it discusses the issue of earmarking receipts. It is concluded that most...
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