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Voting in the European Union - Central Europe's Lost Voice
Schneider, Ondrej - 2008
Ten Central European countries became members of the European Union in the years 2004-2007. They constitute 20% of the EU's total population; and even though their economic output is much lower, it rises dynamically. New members' impact on the EU policies has nevertheless been limited. This is...
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The Open Method of Coordination (OMC) as an Evolutionary Learning Process
Ania, Ana B. - 2013
We interpret the Open Method of Coordination (OMC), recently adopted by the EU as a mode of governance in the area of social policy and other fields, as an imitative learning dynamics of the type considered in evolutionary game theory. The best-practise feature and the iterative design of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753140
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Interest Income Tax Evasion, the EU Savings Directive, and Capital Market Effects
Klautke, Tina - 2013
The Savings Directive has been celebrated as a major political break-through in coordinating taxation in Europe. Against this background, the present paper evaluates the real-world effects of this directive. The directive has left a loophole by providing grandfathering (exemption from...
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Market Externalities of Large Unemployment Insurance Extension Programs
Lalive, Rafael - 2013
program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non …
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A Banana Republic? Trust in Electoral Institutions in Western Democracies - Evidence from a Presidential Election in Austria
Potrafke, Niklas - 2017
democracies. The second ballot of the 2016 Presidential election in Austria needed to be repeated because of inconsistencies in …
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How Do Extended Benefits Affect Unemployment Duration? A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Lalive, Rafael - 2008
. Interestingly, this program is targeted to individuals aged 50 years or older, living in certain eligible regions in Austria. In the …
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Is Human Capital Losing from Outsourcing? Evidence for Austria and Poland
Lorentowicz, Andzelika - 2006
Mexico leads to an increase in the skill premium in both the US and Mexico. In this paper we show on the example of Austria … and Poland that with the new international division of labour emerging in Europe Austria, the high income country, is … skill part. As a result, skilled workers in Austria are losing from outsourcing, while gaining in Poland. In Austria …
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Parental Leave, (In)Formal Childcare and Long-Term Child Outcomes
Danzer, Natalia - 2017
a large and generous parental leave extension in Austria exploiting a sharp birthday cutoff-based discontinuity in the …
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So Similar and Yet so Different : A Comparative Analysis of a Firm's Cost and Benefits of Apprenticeship Training in Austria and Switzerland
Moretti, Luca - 2017
The authors compare a firm's costs and benefits of providing apprenticeship training in Austria and Switzerland, using … pay in Austria, which in turn is associated with collective bargaining agreements and competition with alternative school …
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Nonparametric Evidence on the Effects of Financial Incentives on Retirement Decisions
Manoli, Day - 2014
analysis is based on a mandated rule for employer-provided retirement benefits in Austria that creates discontinuities in the …
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