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The traditional dichotomy of paid versus unpaid work has a tendency to marginalise unpaid work when we attempt to conceptualise precariousness, leading to our perception that it involves exposure to the unpredictability of an individual's future. A new theoretical and empirical perspective is...
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a "deregulation shock" is associated with an accumulation of foreign assets unless the production of nontraded goods is … very capital-intensive. We then investigate whether a measure of domestic deregulation does, in fact, help to explain …
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ideology and deregulation. From this crisis a new democratic capitalist system will emerge, though its character is difficult …
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Schriftliche Fassung eines Vortrages anlässlich der Tagung zum Thema Deregulierung und Privatisierung: Erfahrungen …
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The issues of privatization (and sometimes deregulation) have been reviewed in a large literature on the various … privatization is useful as well as profitable for an economy and empirically present the extent of privatization in Austria and … other European Union countries. In order to assess the impact of privatization in Austria on economic performance, we …
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Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are … joint taxation with income splitting for married couples, Austria taxes everyone individually, which leads to lower marginal …
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, Austria, Czechia, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia, whose economic structure is characterized by strong export orientation. We … programmes through development banks, tax/security payment deferrals) though with varying weight and scope. Only in Austria and …
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socio-economic outcomes and country case studies of Austria, Germany and Switzerland, which illustrate the political …
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We investigate a fiat money system introduced by the Bank of Amsterdam in 1683. Using data from the Amsterdam Municipal Archives, we partially reconstruct changes in the bank's balance sheet from 1666 through 1702. Our calculations show that the Bank of Amsterdam, founded in 1609, was engaged in...
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We explore the effects of mandatory third-party review of mortgage contracts on the terms, availability, and performance of mortgage credit. Our study is based on a legislative experiment in which the State of Illinois required 'high-risk' mortgage applicants acquiring or refinancing properties...
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