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Are Temporary Jobs Stepping Stones or Dead Ends? A Meta-Analytical Review of the Literature
Filomena, Mattia; Picchio, Matteo - 2022
We present a meta-analysis on the debate about the "stepping stone vs. dead end" hypothesis related to the causal effect of temporary jobs on future labour market performances. We select academic papers published on international peer-reviewed journals from 1990 until 2021. Among 78 observations...
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Musn't Grumble : Immigration, Health and Health Service Use in the UK and Germany
Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2012
A rise in population caused by increased immigration is sometimes accompanied by concerns that the increase in population puts additional or differential pressure on welfare services which might affect the net fiscal contribution of immigrants. The UK and Germany have experienced significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099733
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Quashing Demand Criminalizing Clients? Evidence from the UK
Della Giusta, Marina - 2019
We discuss changes in the demand for paid sex accompanying the criminalization of prostitution in the United Kingdom … Lifestyles (Natsal2, conducted in 2000-2001 and Natsal3, conducted in 2010-2012) to illustrate the changes in demand that have … taken place across the two waves. We do not find demand decreasing in our sample and find a shift in the composition of …
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Do You Have to Win it to Fix it? A Longitudinal Study of Lottery Winners and Their Health Care Demand
Cheng, Terence Chai - 2015
We exploit lottery wins to investigate the effects of exogenous changes to individuals' income on health care demand in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013025317
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Tax-Benefit Systems in Europe and the US : Between Equity and Efficiency
Bargain, Olivier - 2011
Whether observed differences in redistributive policies across countries are the result of differences in social preferences or efficiency constraints is an important question that paves the debate about the optimality of welfare regimes. To shed new light on this question, we estimate labor...
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Tax-Benefit Revealed Redistributive Preferences Over Time : Ireland 1987-2005
Bargain, Olivier - 2010
By inverting Saez (2002)'s model of optimal income taxation, we characterize the redistributive preferences of the Irish government between 1987 and 2005. The (marginal) social welfare function revealed by this approach is consistently comparable over time and show great stability despite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137249
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Job Preferences as Revealed by Employee Initiated Job Changes
Grund, Christian - 2011
Many previous studies try to discover job preferences by directly asking individuals. Since it is not sure, whether answers to these surveys are relevant for actual behaviour, this empirical examination offers a new approach based on representative German data. Employees who quit their job and...
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Sharing Rule Identification for General Collective Consumption Models
Cherchye, L. - 2012
demand functions. We obtain informative bounds even if nothing is known about whether each good is public, private, or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105992
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Aggregation Without the Aggravation? Nonparametric Analysis of the Representative Consumer
Cherchye, L. - 2012
In the tradition of Afriat (1967), Diewert (1973) and Varian (1982), we provide a revealed preference characterisation of the representative consumer. Our results are simple and complement those of Gorman (1953, 1961), Samuelson (1956) and others. They can also be applied to data very readily...
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Eliciting Individual Preferences for Pension Reform
Abid Fourati, Yosr - 2010
Pension systems have recently been under scrutiny because of the expected population ageing threatening its sustainability. This paper's contribution to the debate is from a political economic perspective as it uses data from a choice experiment to investigate individual preferences for an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013150589