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Economic Crisis, General Laws, and the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Transformation of American Political Economy
Lamoreaux, Naomi R. - 2020
Before the middle of the nineteenth century most laws enacted in the United States were special bills that granted favors to specific individuals, groups, or localities. This fundamentally inegalitarian system provided political elites with important tools that they could use to reward...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481595
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Improving the SGP : taxes and delegation rather than fines
Lindbeck, Assar; Niepelt, Dirk - 2005
We analyze motivations for, and possible alternatives to, the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP). With regard to the former, we identify domestic policy failures and various cross-country spillover effects; with regard to the latter, we contrast an ?economic-theory" perspective on optimal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261131
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Childcare costs and the demand for children: Evidence from a nationwide reform
Mörk, Eva; Sjögren, Anna; Svaleryd, Helena - 2010
Exploiting the exogenous variation in childcare costs caused by a Swedish childcare reform, we are able to identify the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333016
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Title IX and the evolution of high school sports
Stevenson, Betsey - 2007
The passage of Title IX, the 1972 Education Amendments to the Civil Rights Act, expanded high school athletic opportunities to include girls, revolutionizing mass sports participation in the United States. This paper analyzes high school athletic participation in the United States and how sports...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264259
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The political economy of two-tier reforms of employment protection in Europe
Ochel, Wolfgang - 2008
history of national reform processes. In addition the paper seeks to determine whether two-tier reforms later led to EPL …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264486
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On the many ways Europeanization matters: the implementation of the water reform in Italy (1994-2006)
Asquer, Alberto - 2009
to contribute to this line of inquiry through the case study of the implementation of the 1994 water reform in Italy in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266013
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Financial reform and banking crises
Shehzad, Choudhry Tanveer - 2009
We examine the impact of various dimensions of financial reform on the likelihood of systemic and non-systemic banking … crises. Using new financial reform measures for a large sample of developing and developed countries for the period 1973 to … of financial reform reduce the likelihood of systemic crises. We also show that after a country has reformed, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266048
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Local fiscal equalization in Estonia : is a reform necessary?
Friedrich, Peter; Nam, Chang Woon; Reiljan, Janno - 2009
Estonian municipalities should perform a broad range of functions, while their fiscal resources are often limited and large disparities in fiscal capacity prevail among them. Moreover, the power to regulate fiscal affairs is mostly in the hands of the central government. We discuss how a strict...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266052
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'Take it or go to court': The impact of sec. 1a of the German protection against dismissal act on severance payments
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2010
In 2004, a section was added to the German Protection against Dismissal Act, establishing a new procedure to dismiss an employee, given a predetermined severance payment. Most legal scholars presume the change to be without impact, while a minority of experts claims it to be either beneficial or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270459
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The exhaustion of unemployment benefits in Belgium : does it enhance the probability of employment?
Cockx, Bart Leo Wim; Ries, Jean - 2004
In Belgium unemployment insurance benefits can only exhaust for one category of workers: partners of workers with (replacement) labour income (mostly women) may loose their entitlement after an unemployment duration ranging from two to eight years, depending on individual characteristics. We...
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