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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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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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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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We consider the dynamic relationship between product market entry regulation and equilibrium unemployment. The main theoretical contribution is combining a Mortensen-Pissarides model with monopolistic competition in the goods market and individual wage bargaining. Product market competition...
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In Germany, competitive franchising is increasingly being used to procure passenger railway services that were previously provided by a state monopolist. This paper analyzes 77 tenders that differ with respect to network size, service frequency, contract duration and the proximity to other lines...
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This paper studies the effects of introducing competition for local passenger railway markets in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. We compare the evolution of the frequency of service on lines that were exposed to competition for the market with lines procured by direct negotiations with...
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