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The Distributional Impact of in Kind Public Benefits in European Countries
Paulus, Alari - 2009
International comparisons of inequality based on measures of disposable income may not be valid if the size and incidence of publicly-provided in kind benefits differ across the countries considered. The benefits that are financed by taxation in one country may need to be purchased out of...
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Social Assistance in Five Countries in North-Western Europe
Hansen, Hans - 2016
; Swedish benefits are the lowest or among the lowest, but very much in line with those in Germany. The benefits in the United …
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Productivity and Size of the Export Market : Evidence for West and East German Plants, 2004
Wagner, Joachim - 2021
first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading … actor on the world market for manufactured goods. It documents that firms that export to countries inside the euro-zone are … more productive than firms that sell their products in Germany only, but less productive than firms that export to …
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Neue Regeln guter Unternehmensführung
Hopt, Klaus J.; von Werder, Axel; Zimmermann, Jochen; … - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 83 (2003) 7, pp. 423-435
Die gute Führung von Unternehmen und die Höhe der Managergehälter stehen nach diversen Finanzskandalen von Unternehmen und den Kursmanipulationen am Neuen Markt im Mittelpunkt des öffentlichen Interesses. Im Mai dieses Jahres hat die EU Kommission einen Aktionsplan über „Modernisierung...
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Die europäische Tragödie: Ein politisches Ordnungsproblem
Blum, Ulrich; Pies, Ingo; Sieveking, Nikolaus - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 92 (2012) 10, pp. 667-672
Die Europäische Union hat während der Krise ihre Glaubwürdigkeit verloren, da sie sich nicht an selbst auferlegte Regeln gehalten hat. Um das Vertrauen wiederherzustellen, ist ein Legitimationsverfahren ähnlich dem Corporate-Governance-Kodex erforderlich. Einen solchen Verhaltenskodex...
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Total Reward in the UK in the Public and Private Sectors
Danzer, Alexander M. - 2011
Recent controversy has surrounded the relative value of public and private sector remuneration. We define a comprehensive measure of Total Reward (TR) which includes not just pay, but pensions and other 'benefits in kind', evaluate it as the present value of the sum of all these payments over...
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Mind the Gap : Net Incomes of Minimum Wage Workers in the EU and the US
Marx, Ive - 2012
This paper focuses on the role of minimum wages, tax and benefit policies in protecting workers against financial poverty, covering 21 European countries with a national minimum wage and three US States (New Jersey, Nebraska and Texas). It is shown that only for single persons and only in a...
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The Costs of Early School Leaving in Europe
Brunello, Giorgio - 2013
The reduction of early school leaving to less than 10 percent of the relevant population by 2020 is a headline target in the Europe 2020 strategy and one of the five benchmarks of the strategic framework for European cooperation in education and training. Designing adequate policies to combat...
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Chasing Graduate Jobs?
Mosca, Irene - 2012
This paper examines empirically the relationship between under-employment and migration amongst five cohorts of graduates of Scottish higher education institutions with micro-data collected by the Higher Education Statistical Agency. The data indicate that there is a strong positive relationship...
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Low Pay Persistence in European Countries
Clark, Kenneth - 2009
Using panel data for twelve European countries over the period 1994-2001 we estimate the extent of state dependence in low pay. Controlling for observable and unobservable heterogeneity as well as the endogeneity of initial conditions we find positive, statistically significant state dependence...
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