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The welfare state evolves: German Knappschaften, 1854 - 1923
Jopp, Tobias Alexander - 2010
This paper reviews the German miners' model of mutual insurance from its introduction in 1854 to its basic reformation in 1923. Its core feature was the provision of cash benefits for compensation of income losses due to temporary sickness and permanent invalidity or death of the bread-winner....
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Mining conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa: Actors and repertoires of contention
Engels, Bettina - 2016
Industrial mining is currently one of the fastest growing sectors of the world economy, particularly in the Global … South. The present mining boom is, however, accompanied by numerous conflicts: conflicts over labour relations, over … ecological systems, and over the distribution of profits and tax revenues. In this paper, a typology of mining conflicts is …
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Struggling for land access: The success and failure of social movement actors' framing strategies in conflicts over large-scale land transformations
Prause, Louisa - 2016
' framing strategies in conflicts over large-scale mining and agro-industrial projects. Discursive opportunity structures (DOS … discursive structures. Empirically, the study compares conflicts over gold mining and agro-industry in Senegal. Some elements of …Konflikte um großflächige Landtransformationen zugunsten von Bergbau und Agrarindustrie haben in den letzten Jahren …
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A framework for environmental policy evaluation in the South African mining sector
Thiele, Rainer - 1998
mining activities, and shows for the case of South Africa how it can be implemented numerically. The CGE model belongs to the …
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Protestas relacionadas con la minería en Colombia 2000-2015
García Velandia, Martha Cecilia - 2017
protests against gold and coal mining. …
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Potential gains from mergers in local public transport: an efficiency analysis applied to Germany
Walter, Matthias; Cullmann, Astrid - 2008
We analyze potential gains from hypothetical mergers in local public transport using the non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis with bias corrections by means of bootstrapping. Our sample consists of 41 public transport companies from Germany's most densely populated region, North...
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The Effect of Subsidizing Continuous Training Investments - Evidence from German Establishment Data
Görlitz, Katja - 2009
This paper evaluates the impact of a training voucher program on establishments' investments in further training. The voucher program that was implemented in the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia increased training incentives for employees in small and medium-sized establishments by...
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Mineral Policy Issues in theContext of Export and Domestic Use of Iron Ore in India
Firoz, A. S. - 2008
This study examines the utilization of iron ore in India. It takes into account thesignificant reserves of iron ore in India and allays fears that the country's steel industrywill run out of iron ore resources if exports continue at the current level. On the contrary,it says that exports are...
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Targeting Lead in Solid Waste
Sigman, Hilary - 2003
This paper explores policy options for reducing lead in municipal solid waste. It focuses on policies that rely on economic incentives, such as taxes, deposit-refunds, and recycled content standards. The paper addresses the relative cost effectiveness of these approaches and also considers the...
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How are markets created? The case of Japan's silver market
Pascha, Werner; Storz, Cornelia - 2008
The paper discusses the conditions under which new markets are created, and tries to identify them by an empirical case study of Japan's silver market. It starts from the perspective that the source of competitive advantage under fundamental uncertainty lies in the integration of objective and...
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