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Government grants, plant survival and employment growth : a micro-econometric analysis

Girma, Sourafel (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Frederiksen, Anders; Westergård-Nielsen, Niels C. - 2002

We study individual job-separations and their associated destination states for all individuals in the private sector in Denmark for the period 1980 to 1995 and account for the cyclical flows. We find that individual and workplace characteristics as well as business cycle effects are important...

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The tragedy of clientelism : opting children out

Ronconi, Lucas; Zarazaga, Rodrigo - 2017

Governments in new democracies launch social policies with the purported goal of alleviating the effects of poverty among the most vulnerable households, usually low income families with children. However, this goal is can be thwarted by the clientelistic distribution of social policies'...

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The truly vulnerable : integrating wealth into the measurement of poverty and social policy effectiveness

Kuypers, Sarah; Marx, Ive - 2017

There is a burgeoning literature on the significance and distribution of wealth in the rich world. It mainly focuses on the top. Wealth remains remarkably absent from the analysis of poverty and the redistributive effectiveness of welfare systems. This paper shows that real and financial assets...

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Making it home? : evidence on the longrun impact of an intensive support program for the chronically homeless on housing, employment and health

Kühnle, Daniel; Johnson, Guy; Tseng, Yi-ping - 2022

Interventions that combine unconditional permanent housing with support services, known as Housing First approaches, generally improve housing outcomes for people who have experienced chronic homelessness. However, little is known about their long-run outcomes or the consequences of ending such...

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Missing the target : does increased capacity of the local government improve beneficiary selection?

Asri, Viola; Biswas, Kumar; Fehrler, Sebastian; … - 2024

The implementation of social policies is often hampered by the fact that local decision-makers may be unwilling or unable to implement the policy as intended by the central government. In contrast to research that focuses on incentivizing and holding local decision makers accountable, we examine...

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Reassessing the standard of living in the Soviet Union : an analysis using archival and anthropometric data

Brainerd, Elizabeth (contributor) - 2006

Both Western and Soviet estimates of GNP growth in the USSR indicate that GNP per capita grew in every decade … -- sometimes rapidly -- from 1928 to 1985. While this measure suggests that the standard of living improved in the USSR throughout … across the Soviet Union to reassess the standard of living in the USSR using these alternative measures of well-being. In the …

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Evolution of employment protection legislation in the USSR, CIS and Baltic states, 1985 - 2009

Muravyev, Alexander - 2010

former USSR - the CIS and Baltic states - over 25 years from 1985 to 2009. We use the OECD methodology (OECD EPL, version II … the former USSR with respect to firing costs were extremely rigid and were subsequently liberalized by the 15 successor … decades. By now, the ex-USSR states as a group do not differ that much from the EU-15 and OECD countries in terms of the …

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Bread and bullets

Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016

Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...

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Migration in the Soviet successor states

Locher, Lilo - 2002

This paper analyzes the migration behavior of ethnic groups in the former Soviet Union (FSU) from 1989 to 1999. The two main migration movements have been return migration of ethnic groups to their titular nation and migration of all ethnic groups to the Russian Federation. Using factor...

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