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Social transfers and income inequality in old-age: A multi-national perspective?
Brown, Robert L.; Prus, Steven G. - 2003
transfers. Sweden, for example, has the highest the level of government transfers and the lowest level of old-age income …
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Health and disability insurance
Börsch-Supan, Axel - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 44 (2011) 4, pp. 349-362
Disability insurance - the insurance against the loss of the ability to work - is a substantial part of social security expenditures in many countries. The benefit recipiency rates in disability insurance vary strikingly across European countries and the US. This paper investigates the extent...
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Dokumentation der Ruhestandsregelungen in verschiedenen Ländern
Schleife, Katrin - 2004
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Entrepreneurship, wealth, liquidity constraints and start-up costs
Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Sopraseuth, Thepthida - 2007
We study the effects of liquidity constraints and start-up costs on the relationship between wealth and the fraction of entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model with endogenous wealth and entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts that, with liquidity...
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Contingent convergence: a comparative analysis of activation policies
Eichhorst, Werner; Konle-Seidl, Regina - 2008
principles, instruments, target groups and governance in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the … US, Sweden and Denmark. It assesses the effectiveness and efficiency of activation policies in terms of bringing the …
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Hilfereformen und Aktivierungsstrategien im internationalen Vergleich
Konle-Seidl, Regina - 2008
SGB II wurden auch in den USA, Großbritannien, den Niederlanden, Dänemark und Schweden die Gewährung von Hilfeleistungen … beschäftigungsfreundlich ausgestaltet werden müssen. Mit Hartz IV wurde in Deutschland - im Vergleich zu andern Ländern - relativ spät aber …
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Feminism and labour supply in the Nordic countries/ Axel Hall; Gylfi Zoega
Hall, Axel - 2008
People in the Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Sweden work more than the countries’ high tax rates …
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Working in spite of high taxes: On the role of culture in explaining high employment in the Nordic Countries
Hall, Axel - 2009
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Risk Adjustment Systems in Health Insurance Markets in the US, Germany, Netherlands and Switzerland
Schneider, Udo; Ulrich, Volker; Wille, Eberhard - In: CESifo DICE Report 06 (2008) 3, pp. 37-49
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Die Zyklik der Profite in der Ernährungswirtschaft: Ein internationaler Vergleich.
Koerner, Julia; Weiss, Christoph R. - 2001
-cost-margins over the business cycle for food industries in Germany, the USA as well as the Netherlands. Controlling for market … der Profite verschiedener Branchen der Ernährungswirtschaft in Deutschland, den USA sowie den Niederlanden. Aus der … Branchen mit niedriger Konzentration in Deutschland sowie in sämtlichen Branchen der USA gering ist. Die Beobachtungen für …
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