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The idea of fiscal decentralisation has become increasingly fashionable world-wide. But every country has unique features of the intergovernmental fiscal system. In general municipal expenditures are rapidly growing in European countries. On the other hand local tax increases are not easily...
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This paper investigates the changing nature of economic integration in China. Specifically, we consider business-cycle synchronization (correlation of demand and supply shocks) among Chinese provinces during the period 1955-2007. We find that the symmetry of supply shocks has declined after the...
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unanticipated reform of 2007 to assess how a move from a means-tested to an earnings-related benefit affects higher-order births. By … using data from the Mikrozensus, I find that the reform significantly affected the timing of higher-order births. Overall …, mothers “just” affected by the reform initially reduce subsequent childbearing and start to compensate by the end of the third …
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Exploiting the exogenous variation in childcare costs caused by a Swedish childcare reform, we are able to identify the …
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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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history of national reform processes. In addition the paper seeks to determine whether two-tier reforms later led to EPL …
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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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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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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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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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