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The paper proposes a method to speed up the transition toward the notional contributions pension system in Italy. It seems the most appropriate manner to combine and pursue employment and financial sustainability goals. The method computes percentages for abating the old retributive pensions...
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The employment attainment after a vocational training course, in a lifelong learning perspective is due to several factors, those inherent to the individual and those through exogenous scopes. In this theoretical revue we identify the most and the least notorious theories that can support policy...
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The desired professional insertion (placement) after training is under the influence of personal and exogenous variables. In the present paper we identify the constraints and devices that, in an interactive way, can shape and affect the professional insertion. This paper is a result of a...
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The demographic database of Eurostat and of Us Census of Bureau are explored and the main facts are extracted and described. This paper is completely self-standing but is also part of a more general analysis dedicated to the functioning and sustainability of pay-as-you-go to finance the welfare...
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reindeer herders in Norway - the last aboriginal tribe in Western Europe - in spite of having a monopoly on the production of … reindeer meat, traditionally a luxury food item in Norway, suffered increasing economic hardship. From being an extremely … competitors to the reindeer herders as suppliers of meat in Norway. In conclusion: left to themselves as capitalist entrepreneurs …
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This paper attempts to explain the drastic fall in income experienced by Saami reindeer herders in Northern Norway … reindeer meat, a traditional luxury product in Norway. This paper shows that a review of the literature is supported by …, mainly: cyclical climatic variation in Northern Norway; a system with fixed prices, independent of the variations in supply …
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Whenever citizens want their elected officials to employ funds efficiently, they are in need of information in order to establish accountability. We develop an agency model with imperfect monitoring where newspapers provide voters with this information. The model predicts that an informed...
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Activity-based financing (ABF) was implemented in the Norwegian hospital sector from 1 July 1997. A fraction (30 to 50 per cent) of the block grant from the state to the county councils has been replaced by a matching grant depending upon the number and composition of hospital treatments. As a...
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Stated preference (SP) surveys have been conducted to value non-timber benefits (NTBs) from forests in Norway, Sweden …
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The impact of quality on the demand facing health care providers has important implications for the industrial organization of health care markets. In this paper we study the consumers' choice of general practitioner (GP) assuming they are unable to observe the true quality of GP services. A...
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