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The relationship between psychosocial work factors, employee health and organisational production: A systematic review

Karlsson, Malin Lohela; Björklund, Christina; Jensen, Irene - 2012

The aim of this systematic review is to establish the research evidence of the relationship between the psychosocial work environment and employee health and its impact on organisational production. Searches in several databases were performed in September 2009. Previously known studies were...

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Parental separation and well-being of youths

Winkelmann, Rainer - 2003

This paper uses recent data for Germany and a new outcome variable to assess the consequences of parental separation on the well-being of youths. In particular, it is considered how subjective well-being, elicited from an ordinal 11-point general life satisfaction question, differs between...

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Education and optimal dynamic taxation: The role of income-contingent student loans

Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2012

We study Pareto optimal tax and education policies when human capital upon labor market entry is endogenous and individuals face wage uncertainty. Though optimal labor distortions are history-dependent, i.e. depend on income and education, simple policy instruments can yield the desired...

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All-pay auctions: Implementation and optimality

Jönsson, Stefan; Schmutzler, Armin - 2013

This paper analyzes how all-pay auctions with endogenous prizes can be used to provide effort incentives. We show that wide classes of effort distributions can be implemented as equilibrium outcomes of such games. We also ask how all-pay auctions have to be structured so as to induce high...

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Municipal activation policy: A case study of the practical work with unemployed social assistance recipients

Thorén, Katarina Hjertner - 2005

increasing social assistance expenditures. This study investigates the practical implementation of municipal activation policies … accountability. Findings from this study suggest that the implementation practices in Skärholmen and Osby frequently diverge from …

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Does ccoperation improve implementation? Central-local government relations in active labour market policy in Sweden

Lundin, Martin - 2005

Theory suggests that relations between authorities affect implementation. This article studies the link between central … a considerable extent. However, cooperation and ‘good’ implementation only coincide under certain conditions. If the … collaborative endeavours are explicitly designed to lead to implementation of a specific and demanding task, cooperation is …

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Multiple equilibria as a difficulty in understanding correlated distributions

Kar, Anirban; Ray, Indrajit; Serrano, Roberto - 2005

We view achieving a particular correlated equilibrium distribution for a normal form game as an implementation problem …

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Fifty years of the Nash program, 1953 - 2003

Serrano, Roberto - 2004

This paper is a survey of the work in the Nash program for coalitional games, a research agenda proposed by Nash (1953) to bridge the gap between the non-cooperative and cooperative approaches to game theory.

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Implementing the Mas-Colell bargaining set

Serrano, Roberto; Vohra, Rajiv - 2001

We provide a mechanism that approximately implements the Mas-Colell bargaining set in subgame perfect equilibrium. The mechanism is based on the definition of the Mas-Colell bargaining set, and respects feasibility in and out of equilibrium.

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Implementation and Orderings of Public Information

Campbell, Colin M. - 2003

-ante implementable social choice functions. This holds for a large set of implementation standards, including Nash implementation, and …

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