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The Nature of Poverty and Its Prospects: Pakistan Evidence
Herani, Gobind M.; Wasim, Pervez; Rajar, Allah Wasayo; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper analysis the reasons of poverty, and identifies reduction strategies developed in Pakistan and its consequences. This exploratory study uses the secondary data for the analysis. Much has been written on poverty reduction in Pakistan. So many strategies are prepared and implemented in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005617182
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The Bargaining Power of Health Care Unions: Union Wage Premiums for Registered Nurses in Hospitals
Coombs, Christopher; Newman, Robert; Cebula, Richard; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
For the first time in its history, the National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses in 2008 includes a question involving union status. This study utilizes the data from this sample to estimate the union/non-union wage premium for registered nurses and among some of the occupational, workplace,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108797
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The Nature of Poverty and Its Prospects: Pakistan Evidence
Herani, Gobind M.; Wasim, Pervez; Rajar, Allah Wasayo; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper analysis the reasons of poverty, and identifies reduction strategies developed in Pakistan and its consequences. This exploratory study uses the secondary data for the analysis. Much has been written on poverty reduction in Pakistan. So many strategies are prepared and implemented in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113242
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Recent reforms of the tax and benefit systems in the framework of flexicurity
Carone, Giuseppe; Stovicek, Klara; Pierini, Fabiana; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper provides an analysis of recent reforms of tax-benefit systems and a preliminary assessment of their impact on financial incentives to work and on labour supply. Many Member States have introduced policies to “make work pay” and have targeted low-wage workers with the aim of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565130
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Child Labor at District Level: A Case Study of Rawalpindi
Kulsoom, Rafia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Child labor is one of the problems that occur as a result of responses to the economic problems faced by vulnerable children. Keeping in view the theoretical background of existence of child labor across the world, the study analyzes the incidence of child labor from Rawalpindi city of Pakistan....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008502736
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The usury doctrine and urban public finances in late-medieval Flanders (1220 - 1550): rentes (annuities), excise taxes, and income transfers from the poor to the rich
Munro, John H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The objectives of this study are three-fold. The first is to rebut Charles Kindleberger’s famous dictum that usury ‘belongs less to economic history than to the history of ideas’; and in particular to demonstrate that the resuscitation of the anti-usury campaign from the early 13th century...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005617005
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Darbaspēka migrācijas ietekme uz darba tirgu Latvijā
Skribans, Valerijs - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
After entering the European Union (EU) Latvia faced new possibilities in international labor market. In 2004 several member states opened their labor markets to workers from Latvia. The largest amount of labor force went to Ireland, Great Britain and Sweden. In these countries salaries were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805043
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Il Pay-as-You-Go in Europa attraverso i Programmi di Stabilità. Le risorse che gli attivi/occupati dovranno mettere a disposizione per finanziare il welfare
SALERNO, Nicola Carmine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Mid-long term projections of the Stability Programs (SP) are elaborated to simulate the burden each active citizen or each worker will have to bear for financing, via pay-as-you-go, public health care provisions and public pensions. It is worth mentioning that projections in the (SP) are those...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112866
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Pension savings and economic growth
De Koning, Kees - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Savers, including pension savers, convert savings into assets: homes,government bonds and shares.The conversion of … savings is for the very long term. Once monies are turned into assets, the reverse process of turning assets into cash cannot …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111570
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Better Safe than Sorry - Individual Risk-Free Pension Schemes in the European Union
Peeters, Marga - 2012
citizens would benefit, for three reasons, from pension saving in a risk-free savings account. First, citizens would have a … clear picture of the accumulation of their own pension savings throughout their working life. Second, they would pay hardly … no reasons why the European Union and individual member states should not allow individual risk-free pension savings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013114018