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How reliable are social safety nets? : value and accessibility in situations of acute economic need
Immervoll, Herwig; Hyee, Raphaela; Fernández, Rodrigo; … - 2022
evidence-based policy process. This paper proposes a novel empirical method for monitoring the accessibility and levels of … the amounts of cash support that individuals in need receive in practice. Results show that accessibility and benefit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013186742
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(In)equality and (in)justice
Jasso, Guillermina - 2016
increase. We obtain exact links between economic inequality and three parameters of the justice evaluation distribution …Understanding the exact connection between inequality and justice is important because justice is classically regarded … justice, the sense of justice would not awaken to exert its moral suasion, no matter how great the inequality or how fast its …
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Does evaluating teachers make a difference?
Briole, Simon; Maurin, Eric - 2019
In France, secondary school teachers are evaluated every six or seven years by senior experts of the Ministry of education. These external evaluations mostly involve the supervision of one class session and a debriefing interview, but have nonetheless a direct impact on teachers' career...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012003746
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Evaluating an innovative redundancy-retraining project : the Austrian Steel Foundation
Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2001
This paper evaluates an Austrian manpower training program, which is highly innovative in its content and financing – and could therefore serve as a role model for other programs. In the late 1980s privatization and down-sizing of nationalized steel firms have lead to large-scale redundancies....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401056
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Other-regarding preferences and performance pay : an experiment on incentives and sorting
Eriksson, Tor (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002115447
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Search and offshoring in the presence of "animal spirits"
Mitra, Devashish; Ranjan, Priya - 2009
In this paper, we introduce two sources of unemployment in a two-factor general equilibrium model: search frictions and fairness considerations. We find that a binding fair-wage constraint increases the unskilled unemployment rate and can at the same time lead to a higher unemployment rate for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831919
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A behavioral account of the labor market : the role of fairness concerns
Fehr, Ernst (contributor); Götte, Lorenz (contributor);  … - 2008
In this paper, we argue that important labor market phenomena can be better understood if one takes (i) the inherent incompleteness and relational nature of most employment contracts and (ii) the existence of reference-dependent fairness concerns among a substantial share of the population into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793473
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The political economy of conscription
Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - 2009
Though in decline recently, military conscription is still a widely used mode of staffing armies. Since not many valid economic, social or military arguments in favor of the draft can be put forward, the question emerges why societies choose to rely on it. In this survey we explain the political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003899795
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Theoretical unification in justice and beyond
Jasso, Guillermina (contributor) - 2007
examines a series of twenty-one unification surprises in the study of justice and beyond, sixteen in the study of justice and … five in the unification of three fundamental sociobehavioral forces -- justice, status, and power -- and the subsequent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003460687
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Equity and equality
Duclos, Jean-Yves (contributor) - 2006
thought and that it requires advanced notions of justice and wellbeing. The most likely ethical basis for HE appears to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003467009