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Valuation of privatization in Europe by experts and stakeholders: results of explorative surveys and interviews. EU-supported project understanding privatization policy: political...
Nerb, Gernot; Schönherr, Siegfried; Schroeder, Bennet - 2008
This EU supported Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP) had been conducted by a European Consortium composed of eight research institutions. Ifo's part within this larger programme was (a) to analyse the fiscal effects of privatization and (b) to assess the valuation of privatization...
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To react or not?: fiscal policy, volatility and welfare in the EU-3
Malley, Jim; Philippopoulos, Apostolis; Woitek, Ulrich - 2007
implications of countercyclical fiscal policy for France, Germany and the UK. The model incorporates real wage rigidity which is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264070
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Flexicurity: Lessons and Proposals from the Netherlands
Bovenberg, Lans; Wilthagen, Ton; Bekker, Sonja - In: CESifo DICE Report 06 (2008) 4, pp. 9-14
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Imposed benefit sanctions and the unemployment-to-employment transition: the German experience
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2008
positive short- and long-term effects of benefit sanctions which are robust for men and women in East and West Germany. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265011
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Die Aktivierung erwerbsfähiger Hilfeempfänger: Programme, Teilnehmer, Effekte im internationalen Vergleich
Fromm, Sabine; Sproß, Cornelia - 2008
Die Einführung einer aktivierenden Sozialpolitik ist das zentrale Merkmal der Reform moderner Wohlfahrtsstaaten seit den 1990er Jahren. Ein wesentliches Element dieser Politik ist die Implementierung von Aktivierungsmaßnahmen für erwerbsfähige Hilfeempfänger, die heute in den meisten...
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Higher economic growth through macroeconomic policy coordination? The combination of wage policy and monetary policy
Gern, Klaus-Jürgen; Meier, Carsten-Patrick; Scheide, … - 2003
coordination with monetary policy. According to the simulations, employment in Germany would increase by about 750,000 persons in … Netherlands and in Ireland, a consensual strategy of wage restraint for improving the competitiveness of the economy and … example: If the social partners in a large country such as Germany give a credible signal that wage increases will be moderate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295183
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Unemployment accounts and employment incentives
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, … - 2006
We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment accounts (UA) system. Under the UA system, employed people are required to make ongoing contributions to their UAs and the balances in these accounts are available to them during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332737
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In-Work Policies in Europe : Killing Two Birds with One Stone?
Bargain, Olivier; Orsini, Kristian - 2004
three European countries which experience severe poverty traps, namely Finland, France and Germany. The potential labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262176
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Unemployment accounts and employment incentives
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, … - 2006
We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment accounts (UA) system. Under the UA system, employed people are required to make ongoing contributions to their UAs and the balances in these accounts are available to them during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272954
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Tradable Permits
Ellerman, A. Denny; Johnstone, Nick; Schneider, Friedrich; … - In: CESifo Forum 04 (2003) 1, pp. 3-32
Tradable Permits – a Market-Based Allocation System for the Environment. Tradable Permits and Other Environmental Policy Instruments – Killing one Bird with two Stones. Tradable Permits – Ten Key Design Issues. Tradable Permits with Imperfect Monitoring. Emissions Trading with Greenhouse...
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