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Schulz, Kai - 2007

, und gegeben die Defizite bürokratischer Sozialpolitik, werden die theoretischen wie praktischen Möglichkeiten der römisch …

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Verteilungswirkungen anreizorientierter Sozialpolitik : das deutsche Rentenversicherungs- und Steuersystem in der Perspektive dynamischer Lebenszyklusmodelle

Grub, Martin - 2005

Drei große Reformenpakete und eine Reihe kleinerer Begleitmaßnahmen prägen das renten¬politische Erbe der rot-grünen Bundesregierung. Einerseits greifen sie Trends in der Reformpolitik seit Beginn der 90er Jahre auf. So verstärkt die Rentenstrukturreform 2001 beispielsweise die...

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Trade Unions and Occupational Health and Safety

Donado Gomez, Alejandro - 2011

This thesis comprises three essays that study the impact of trade unions on occupational health and safety (OHS). The first essay proposes a theoretical model that highlights the crucial role that unions have played throughout history in making workplaces safer. Firms traditionally oppose better...

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An Investigation of the Employment Status of Muslims in Queensland

Adibi, Hossein - 2008

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There is a considerable literature, albeit inconclusive, on whether workers in the nonprofit sector are paid less than their counterparts in the private and public sectors. For example, a large national study in the U.S. showed positive and negative differentials for some occupations and...

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This article examines the interchangeability of paid and volunteer labor. It reports on estimates and prevalence of such interchangeability through a series of studies of Canadian nonprofits: two national surveys of nonprofit organizations and case studies of two hospitals. The first study found...

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Scamming the poor: The modern fringe economy

Karger, Howard Jacob - 2004

Because of the difficulty in securing traditional forms of credit, the poor are often driven into the fringe economy for check cashing, bill paying and short-term loans. These services involve high user fees and exorbitant interest rates that rival or even exceed those for illegal loan sharking....

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Webcast of Flexible Work Arrangements and Low-Wage Work

Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center - 2009

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Nationale Sozialpartnerschaft und Soziales Europa : eine ländervergleichende Studie zur Umsetzung arbeitsrechtlicher EU-Richtlinien in Dänemark, Schweden, Finnland, Österreich, Lux...

Leiber, Simone - 2003

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Anticipating and adjusting to the introduction of the National Minimum Wage in the hospitality and clothing industries

Lucas, Rosemary E.; Langlois, Michele - 2003

This metadata relates to an electronic version of an article published in Policy Studies, Volume 24, Issue 1, March 2003 , pages 33-50. Policy Studies is available online at informaworldTM at http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a713691459

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