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This report describes the migration patterns of Romanian migrants in Italy before and after the accession of Romania into the European Union (EU). The findings and the main results presented throughout the report were collected by carrying out a survey in three main cities of Italy Milan, Turin...
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Ein funktionierendes Gemeinwesen, individuelle Teilhabe und die Bewältigung von Krisen sind ohne die erfolgreiche Erbringung von Dienstleistungen in kritischen Bereichen nicht denkbar. Das GenDis-Projekt („Gesellschaftlich notwendige Dienstleistungen sicherstellen: Ist Arbeit am Gemeinwohl...
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This paper examines the role of competition law and policy as tools for poverty reduction and development. The authors put forward five related principles, building upon the important work on related issues that has been done by the OECD, the International Competition Network (ICN), UNCTAD and...
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Prominent research has claimed that work-family reconciliation policies trigger "tradeoffs" and "paradoxes" in terms of gender equality with adverse labor market consequences for women. These claims have greatly influenced debates regarding social policy, work, family, and gender inequality....
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Within fisheries it is well-known that several market failures exist. However, fisheries economists analyse these market failures separately despite the fact that the market failures arise simultaneously. In this paper several market fail-ures that arise simultaneously are analysed. A resource...
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This paper analyzes the effects of a ban on smoking in public places upon firms and consumers. It presents a theoretical model and tests its predictions using unique data from before and after the introduction of smoking bans in the UK. Cigarette smoke is a public bad, and smokers and...
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Government regulators often establish maximum prices for regulated services. This paper explains the proper economic … previously incurred that the regulation makes unrecoverable from the marketplace. Costs created by the regulation include … regulated prices is lower than stand-alone costs and the bound is higher than incremental costs. Cases discussed include …
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from co-payments if their prices undercut a certain price level relative to the reference price. We identify the effect of … the policy on the prices of all affected prescription drugs and differentiate the analysis by firm types (innovative … (no. of firms) suggests a significant but small negative correlation with prices. …
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The development of employment and unemployment in regional labour markets is known to spatially interdependent. Global Vector-Autoregressive (GVAR) models generate a link between the local and the surrounding labour markets and thus might be useful when analysing and forecasting employment and...
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