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 …

In 2001 and 2002, Sweden introduced several unemployment insurance reforms. A major innovation in the first reform was … compensation during the first 20 weeks of unemployment. The 2002 reform retained the two-tiered benefit structure but involved also …

history of national reform processes. In addition the paper seeks to determine whether two-tier reforms later led to EPL …

to contribute to this line of inquiry through the case study of the implementation of the 1994 water reform in Italy in …

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 …