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Risikoselektion als Anreizproblem: Möglichkeiten der Weiterentwicklung von Risikoausgleichssystemen in der Krankenversicherung
Lorenz, Normann - 2006
Diese Dissertation untersucht die Regulierung von Krankenversicherungsmärkten und dabei insbesondere Risikoausgleichssysteme (wie z.B. den deutschen Risikostrukturausgleich), die dazu dienen, Risikoselektion durch Krankenversicherungen zu reduzieren oder gar zu verhindern. Im 2. Kapitel der...
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Gender Equality in Central and Eastern Europe : A Comparison of Labour Market Attitudes, Educational Achievement and Poverty between East and West
Schnepf, Sylke Viola - 2005
tremendous increase in poverty and income inequality in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Much of the literature argues that the …’s economic empowerment: the labour market, education and poverty. Large and complex data sets on peoples’ attitudes and … greater in transition than in OECD countries.On the other hand, once the feminisation of poverty is concerned data on …
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Reviewing the Tragedy of the Commons: Environmental Management Systems and Informal Communication Networks
Espinosa, Angela; Knowles, Kathryn - 2008
"The Tragedy of the Commons can be likened to the now popular term 'Sustainable Development', as both of them refer to the need to appropriately and cooperatively manage shared resources, in order to maintain a balance between different generations of people inhabiting a particular niche within...
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Exploring Informality: An Empirical Analysis of the Informal Economy
Gardner, Sadie - 2008
The informal economy often comprises a significant portion of a country's GDP. As this income is not, by definition, taxed or regulated by the government, informal activity presents obvious problems, such as loss of tax revenue, which leads to a lower provision of public goods. However, there is...
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Labor Supply, Informal Economy and Russian Transition
Bouev, Maxim - 2001
The literature on economics of transition has suggested a number of scenarios to explain unemployment and labour reallocation in Eastern Europe. However, it has recently been argued that these so-called Optimal Speed of Transition (OST) studies do not account for many stylized facts concerning...
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Official Regulations and the Shadow Economy: A Labour Market Approach
Bouev, Maxim - 2002
This work revisits the role of regulations in emergence o f the shadow economy. In particular, it supplements the previous theoretical research that mainly ignored the fact that the decision to “go underground” is essentially a result of both employers and employees interacting in the labour...
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State Regulations, Job Search and Wage Bargaining: A Study in the Economics of the Informal Sector
Bouev, Maxim - 2005
This paper analyses the emergence of the informal economy in the environment characterised by non-competitive labour markets with wage bargaining. We develop a simple extension of the standard search model à la Pissarides (2000) with formal and informal sectors to show how a government’s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477503
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Požiūriai į neapmokestinamas pajamas, 2004 m. balandis
Nausėdienė, Inga - 2004
Tyrimo tikslas: įvertinti atlyginimų "vokelyje" praktikos paplitimo mastus Lietuvoje. Respondentams buvo pateikti klausimai, ar jie gauna neapmokestinamų pajamų bei klausta, kokią dalį pajamų procentais sudaro tokios neapmokestinamos pajamos. Socialinės demografinės charakteristikos:...
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ESSAYS ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND INEQUALITY
Paz, Lourenco Senne - 2009
In this dissertation I assess the impact of developing country trade liberalization on their wage inequality by focusing on two possible channels, namely job formality and inter-industry wage premium. Informal workers are a large share of the workforce, more than 30% in Brazil and Colombia, and...
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