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Entrepreneur Law). We intend to present evidence that helps clarify, albeit only partially, whether the policy was successful in …-entrepreneurship, there is evidence that the policy may have achieved this particular goal. It is worth noting, however, that the evidence in … change their working relationships with their employees, from wage-earning work to services rendered. The policy seems to …
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matching between employers and workers to generate positive effects on the duration of employment, productivity and wages. Most …
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Governments play a major role in the development process, and constantly introduce reforms and policies to achieve developmental objectives. Many of these interventions have limited impact, however; schools get built but children don't learn, IT systems are introduced but not used, plans are...
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austerity policy provides a meagre contribution to the expansion of services and the increase in government spending …This article uses strategy metaphors consisting of a plan, a home and a game to study government programme formation in … Finland. The strategy approach both contradicts and complements the traditional political science approach to government …
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This note contextualizes the ongoing U.S. policy shift toward greater ‘regulation’ of large corporations. Cory Doctorow …
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To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This … addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements, particularly the Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) and the General … substantive provisions on both government procurement and services trade. An important finding is that, from an economic …
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The first pillars of social security systems differ widely across European countries both in the contribution rate and intra-generational redistribution. What would the impact of these differences be if EU citizens had free access to all systems? This paper aims to highlight some basic features...
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Over the last fifty years, the theory and practice of contemporary marketing have been influenced by the focus of its applicative approach over a major landmark of the business world. A short characterization of its different orientations, from consumer oriented marketing to holistic marketing,...
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Do emotions affect the decision between change and the status quo? We exploit exogenous variation in emotions caused by rain and analyze data on more than 400 ballot propositions in Switzerland for the years 1958 to 2014 to address this question. The empirical tests are based on administrative...
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Do emotions affect the decision between change and the status quo? We exploit exogenous variation in emotions caused by rain and analyze data on more than 870,000 municipal vote outcomes in Switzerland to address this question. The empirical tests are based on administrative ballot outcomes and...
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