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Marchal, Sarah; Marx, Ive; Van Mechelen, Natascha - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

The present economic crisis comes against the background of decades of policy changesthat have generally weakened the capacity of social safety nets to offer citizens withadequate resources for financial survival when labour markets fail to do so. Building on datafor 24 European Union countries,...

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The Social Protection of Rural Workers in the Construction Industry in Urban China

Li, Bingqin; Peng, Huamin - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006

The construction industry is important for Chinese rural to urban migrants. Over 90%of urban construction workers are rural migrants, and over a third of all rural migrantswork in construction. The construction industry is not only particularly important, butis also different from other...

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Constitutions, Regulations, and Taxes: Contradictions of Different Aspects of Decentralization

Libman, Aleksandr M. - Frankfurt School of Finance & Management - 2010

The paper confronts different aspects of decentralization: fiscal decentralization, postconstitutionalregulatory … decentralization, and constitutional decentralization – using a singledataset from Russian Federation of the Yeltsin period as a … (though partly overlapping) forces. Hence, a specificaspect of decentralization is hardly able to serve as a proxy for another …

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Creative Destruction and Fiscal Institutions:A Long-Run Case Study of Three Regions

Schnellenbach, Jan; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Feld, Lars P. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2009

We analyze the rise and decline of the steel and mining industries in the regionsof Saarland, Lorraine und Luxemburg over a long period, from the mid-19th century to 2003.Our main focus in on the period of structural decline in these industries after the secondworld war. Dierences in the...

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Are your firm's taxes set in Warsaw?Spatial tax competition in Europe

Crabbé, Karen; Vandenbussche, Hylke - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics … - 2008

Tax competition within the EU is fiercer than in the rest of the OECD with tax rates fallingrapidly. This paper analyzes tax responses of EU-15 countries to corporate tax changes in theEU-10 new member states as a function of their proximity to these new member states. Theaverage corporate tax...

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The Bologna Process : How student mobility affects multi-cultural skills and educational quality

Mechtenberg, Lydia; Strausz, Roland - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin>

We analyze the two goals behind the European Bologna Process of increasing student mobility: enabling graduates to develop multi-cultural skills and increasing the quality of universities. We isolate three effects: 1) a competition effect that raises quality; 2) a free rider effect that lowers...

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