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This paper reviews the German miners' model of mutual insurance from its introduction in 1854 to its basic reformation in 1923. Its core feature was the provision of cash benefits for compensation of income losses due to temporary sickness and permanent invalidity or death of the bread-winner....
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Industrial mining is currently one of the fastest growing sectors of the world economy, particularly in the Global … South. The present mining boom is, however, accompanied by numerous conflicts: conflicts over labour relations, over … ecological systems, and over the distribution of profits and tax revenues. In this paper, a typology of mining conflicts is …
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' framing strategies in conflicts over large-scale mining and agro-industrial projects. Discursive opportunity structures (DOS … discursive structures. Empirically, the study compares conflicts over gold mining and agro-industry in Senegal. Some elements of …Konflikte um großflächige Landtransformationen zugunsten von Bergbau und Agrarindustrie haben in den letzten Jahren …
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mining activities, and shows for the case of South Africa how it can be implemented numerically. The CGE model belongs to the …
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protests against gold and coal mining. …
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We document that home ownership of households with 'heads' aged 25-44 years fell substantially between 1980 and 2000 and recovered only partially during the 2001-2005 housing boom. The 1980-2000 decline in young home ownership occurred as improvements in mortgage opportunities seemingly made it...
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In this paper we study the importance of marriage for interstate risk sharing. We find that US states in which married … more aggregated state-level. Quantitatively, the impact of marriage on interstate risk sharing varies over divorce regimes. …
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of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different … data suggest that the introduction of joint custody led to a long-run increase in marriage rates. There is no convincing … dampened the persistent downturn in marriage. Our empirical evidence is fully consistent with the supposition that these …
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Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In citiessingles can meet more potential partners …
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