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Separate and Unequal: The Effect of Unequal Access to Employment-Based Health Insurance on Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual People

Ash, Michael A.; Badgett, M.V. Lee - 2004

Employers' standard practice of including legal spouses in health insurance is likely to place people in unmarried couples at a significant disadvantage for obtaining coverage. Data from married and unmarried couples in the Current Population Survey confirm that people with unmarried partners...

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Sprachgeist and realisticness: The troubled relationship between (Austrian) economics and mathematics revisited

Linsbichler, Alexander - 2021

In recent academic and to some extent public debates, mainstream economics has been accused of excessive mathematization. The rejection of mathematical and other formal methods is often cited as a crucial trait of Austrian economics. Based on a systematic discussion of potential benefits and...

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Philosophy of Austrian economics - Extended cut

Linsbichler, Alexander - 2021

thoroughgoing subjectivism, methodological individualism, ontological individualism, apriorism, essentialism, an often overstated …

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All set in stone? How essentialist beliefs about aging affect older workers' motivation to continue working beyond retirement age

Weiss, Mona; Weiss, David; Zacher, Hannes - In: Journal of Organizational Behavior 43 (2022) 8, pp. 1446-1461

Although population aging requires that employees increasingly work beyond traditional retirement ages, negative age stereotypes often portray older workers as unwilling or unable to work longer. However, recent lifespan developmental research suggests that there are significant individual...

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Is there a 'marriage premium' for gay men?

Zavodny, Madeline - 2007

whether a similar premium accrues to gay men who live with a male partner and whether cohabiting gay men have different … observable characteristics than non-cohabiting gay men. Controlling for observable characteristics, cohabiting gay men do not … earn significantly more than other gay men or more than unmarried heterosexual men. Cohabiting heterosexual men also do not …

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Rethinking water management in Khorezm, Uzbekistan: Concepts and recommendations

Oberkircher, Lisa; Tischbein, Bernhard; Hornidge, … - 2010

Khorezm region is located in the northwest of Uzbekistan, approximately 350 km from the current shore of the Aral Sea. It comprises a large-scale irrigation system which conveys water from the river Amudarya to agricultural land cropped mainly with cotton, wheat, and rice. Khorezm's water...

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Emerging health technology firms' strategies and their impact on economic and healthcare system actors: A qualitative study

Beaulieu, Mathieu; Lehoux, Pascale - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 7 (2018) 11, pp. 1-27

A growing number of announcements on new and innovative medical devices are reported each year by economic actors. However, very few new technologies are successfully acquired and adopted by healthcare actors. To examine how economic and healthcare system actors perceive entrepreneurs'...

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Geographies of dissociation: Value creation, ‘dark’ places, and ‘missing’ links

Ibert, Oliver; Hess, Martin; Kleibert, Jana; Müller, Felix - In: Dialogues in Human Geography 9 (2019) 1, pp. 43-63

In this article, we seek to contribute to cultural-economic geography debates on the social construction of economic value. We widen the focus on already well-studied associations between branded commodities and other entities representing nonmonetary values by also considering what we refer to...

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The Economics of Ageing and the Political Economy of Old Age

Jackson, William A. - In: International Review of Applied Economics 8 (1994) 1, pp. 31-45

Economic discussion of ageing has been largely neoclassical in approach. Ageing has become a specialism within population economics, which is itself a specialism within the neoclassical mainstream. An alternative view has come from authors in sociology and social policy, who have produced their...

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Social Construction and the Progressivity of Local Tax Relief

Dahan, Momi - 2021

This paper reveals a noticeable difference between a high degree of progressivity of incomerelated local property tax relief versus the proportional or regressive incidence of recognition tax relief. Recognition tax relief is tax relief given to specified social sectors which recognizes either...

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