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The Transmission of Democracy : From the Village to the Nation-State

Giuliano, Paola - 2013

We provide evidence that a history of democracy at the local level is associated with contemporary democracy at the national level. Auxiliary estimates show that a tradition of local democracy is also associated with attitudes that favor democracy, with better quality institutions, and higher...

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The Impact of Welfare Reform on LeaverCharacteristics, Employment and Recidivism:An Analysis of Maryland and Missouri

Mueser, Peter R.; Stevens, David W.; Troske, Kenneth R. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

State and federal reforms of the 1990s transformed the U.S. cash assistance program forsingle parents and their children. Despite an extensive literature examining these changesand their impacts, there have been few studies that consider the effects of these reformsfrom the perspective of the...

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Whatever Happened to the Bismarckian Welfare State? From Labor Shedding to Employment-Friendly Reforms

Hemerijck, Anton - 2010

last years. The paper summarizes major reform dynamics in Bismarckian welfare states which had adopted a strategy of labor …

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Reforming German Labor Market Institutions : A Dual Path to Flexibility

Eichhorst, Werner - 2009

moderation and working time flexibility. While at the outset of this reform sequence German had a small, but relatively …

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Better Protected, Better Paid : Evidence on How Employment Protection Affects Wages

van der Wiel, Karen - 2009

This paper empirically establishes the effect of the employer's term of notice on the wage level of employees. The term of notice is defined as the period an employer has to notify workers in advance of their upcoming dismissal. The wages paid during this period are an important element of...

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Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform : The Case of Divorced Parents

Francesconi, Marco - 2008

existing empirical literature on the impacts of welfare reform, and discuss the implications of our results for policy and …

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Labor in the Boardroom

Jäger, Simon - 2019

study a reform in Germany that abruptly abolished this mandate for certain firms incorporated after August 1994 but locked …

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Parental Leave Reform and Long-Run Earnings of Mothers

Frodermann, Corinna - 2020

leave policies. We analyze the impact of a major parental leave reform on mothers' long-term earnings. The 2007 German … parental leave reform replaced a means-tested benefit with a more generous earnings-related benefit that is granted for a … mothers who gave birth just before and right after the reform and nets out seasonal effects by including the year before …

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Designing Disability Insurance Reforms : Tightening Eligibility Rules or Reducing Benefits?

Haller, Andreas - 2020

We study the welfare effects of disability insurance (DI) and derive social-optimality conditions for the two main DI policy parameters: (i) DI eligibility rules and (ii) DI benefits. Causal evidence from two DI reforms in Austria generate fiscal multipliers (total over mechanical cost...

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Parental Leave, (In)Formal Childcare and Long-Term Child Outcomes

Weißhaar, Natalia - 2017

human capital outcomes only if the reform induces a replacement of informal child-care with maternal care. We conclude that …

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