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Formal and informal labour markets: Challenges and policy in the Central and Eastern European new EU members and candidate countries

Schneider, Friedrich; Burger, Christina - 2004

The paper aims at comparing the formal and informal labour markets in the Central and Eastern European new EU Member States and candidate countries of the European Union. First, the current situation of the labour market is described, focusing on the recent developments since the breaking up of...

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Long term effects of public policy for displaced workers in Sweden - shipyard workers in the West and miners in the North

Ohlsson, Henry; Storrie, Donald - 2007

The objective of this paper is to study the long term effects of public policy measures for displaced workers. Our focus is on the individuals affected by the cutbacks at the LKAB iron ore mines in northern Sweden in 1983 and the closure of the Uddevalla Shipyard in western Sweden in 1985. These...

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Corruption and the shadow economy: An empirical analysis

Dreher, Axel; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2006

This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption and shadow economy are substitutes in high income countries while they are complements in low income countries. The hypotheses are tested for a crosssection of 120 countries and a...

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Monopolistic screening under learning by doing

Gärtner, Dennis - 2007

This paper investigates the design of incentives in a dynamic adverse selection framework when agents' production technologies display learning effects and agents' rate of learning is private knowledge. In a simple two-period model with full commitment available to the principal, we show that...

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Telecommunications regulation and new services: A case study at the state level

Prieger, James E. - 2000

The effects that regulation has on the innovation and the introduction of new telecommunications services have not been … previously quantified in the literature. This study compares state-regulated services in Indiana under rate of return regulation … (RoRR) and under alternative regulation. The econometric model comprises an count process (for innovation) followed by a …

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Auditor Independence and NAS : A Comparative Analysis of Selected Current Regulatory Frameworks

Islam, Ainul - 2012

There is a widespread public perception that the provision of NAS undermines auditor independence. In order to protect auditor independence, the regulatory frameworks of many countries include regulations and guidelines which auditors are required to observe. This paper provides a comparative...

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The Solvency II Process : Overview and Critical Analysis

Eling, Martin; Schmeiser, Hato; Schmit, Joan T. - Institut für Versicherungswirtschaft <Sankt Gallen> - 2005

regulation. However, with the more recentmovement toward a general single EU market, financial services regulation hastaken on … that, ultimately, will determinethe exact form of capital regulation. Our analysis leads us to conclude thatcaution is …

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Sustainable Consumption and Worktime Reduction

Schor, Juliet - 2004

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Labour market policies, strategies and statistics for people with disabilities: A cross-national comparison

Bergeskog, Anders - 2001

In addition to describing different countries' labour market policies for people with disabilities, this study attempts to establish some initial benchmarks for comparing national policies in this respect for a number of OECD countries. The report systematically compares the countries in order...

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A cross-country comparison of labor market frictions

Ridder, Geert; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2002

In this paper we define and estimate measures of labor market frictions using data on job durations. We compare different estimation methods and different types of data. We propose and apply an unconditional inference method that can be applied to aggregate duration data. It does not require...

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