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Some committees convene behind closed doors while others publicly discuss issues and make their decisions. This paper studies the role of open and closed committee decision making in presence of external influence. We show that restricting the information of interest groups may reduce the bias...
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This paper investigates fiscal sustainability in an overlapping generations economy with endogenous growth coming from human capital formation through educational spending. We assess how budgetary imbalances affect economic dynamics and the outlook for economic growth, thereby providing a...
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We found that on average over the period from 1989 to 2007, 21 percent of American households at a given point of time received a wealth transfer and these accounted for 23 percent of their net worth. Over the lifetime, about 30 percent of households could expect to receive a wealth transfer and...
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protection against discrimination. These could be taken into account in the implementation and the eventual reform of the EU … legal framework on the protection against discrimination. The European Union (EU) adopted two prominent pieces of … legislation in 2000 aimed at efficiently fighting discrimination. The Racial Equality Directive and the Employment Equality …
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Article 13 of the EC Treaty, introduced by the Amsterdam Treaty, aims to combat discrimination based on sex, racial or …
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This report intends to support and further stimulate non-discrimination mainstreaming at both Member State and European …
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This report has been drafted as part of a study into measures to combat discrimination in the EU Member States, funded … by the European Community Action Programme to combat discrimination. …
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This paper is about the issue of defining disability in European discrimination law context. It is based on the … research and discussions which have been undertaken within the European Group of Disability Discrimination Experts. The paper … reviews the definition of disability in disability discrimination laws of those EU countries1 which have transposed the …
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