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account (covering education and training), and a health account (covering insurance against sickness and disability). Unlike …, cushioning people against economic risk, ensuring efficient provision of health and education services, providing social safety …
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The paper examines the appropriate domain of the Welfare State by exploring the areas in which free enterprise fails to provide adequate welfare state services. The paper outlines a simple coherent strategy for formulating government welfare state policy by identifying the relevant market...
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differences in labour supply responses to tax policy can explain differences in aggregate labour supply and years of education …
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unemployment rates. It may be the case that this locus is steep enough to generate increasing returns to education. This may lead … to multiple equilibria: a high-education equilibrium may coexist with a low-education equilibrium. In the former, the … Pareto-ranked, but the latter is preferred to the former by workers, while `savers' prefer the high-education equilibrium. …
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We consider a finite number of firms, which compete imperfectly for heterogeneous workers. Firms produce a homogeneous good, sold on a competitive market, and face demand-induced price fluctuations. It is then shown that unemployment may arise in equilibrium because of both uncertainty of...
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During the last decade, unemployment in Greece climbed up to 28%, almost quadrupling due to the economic crisis that … hit Greece. In the present paper, we examine the determinants of the unemployment dynamics and the impact of the minimum …
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mental health for adolescents aged 15-18 in Athens, Greece. The gathered dataset covers the same upper high schools in two …
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dynamics. We investigate the case of Greece, which has had a polarized political system and a problem of persistently high …
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and inequality. …
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We analyze the effects of R&D-driven automation on economic growth, education, and inequality when high-skilled workers …-driven growth leads to an increasing population share of college graduates, increasing income and wealth inequality, and a declining … low-skilled individuals as long as both technology and education are endogenous. This is true irrespective of whether …
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