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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 …

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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...

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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...

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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...

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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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Corporate governance reforms, interlocking directorship networks and company value in Italy (1998-2007)

Drago, Carlo; Millo, Francesco; Ricciuti, Roberto; … - 2011

In this paper we contribute to the literature on the structure of interlocking directorship networks and to the literature on the relationship between corporate governance and performance. We use a unique dataset made of corporate governance variables related to the board size and interlocking...

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The importance of the electoral rule: Evidence from Italy

Bordignon, Massimo; Monticini, Andrea - 2011

We employ bootstrap methods (Efron (1979)) to test the effect of an important electoral reform implemented in Italy … objectives of the reform) that remained unchanged at their pre-reform level. …

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