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Citizenship tests in five Countries: An expression of political liberalism?
Michalowski, Ines - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) - 2009
the US, Austria, the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands. A central question discussed is whether these tests can be …: countries with rather restrictive citizenship regimes such as Austria or Germany have opted for a citizenship test with a … Deutschland Einbürgerungstests mit einem liberalen Inhalt eingeführt haben, der nicht nur dem britischen, sondern auch dem …
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Steel in the new millennium : nine case studies
Jennings, Norman S - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1997
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Changing job roles in the Norwegian and UK fitness industry: in search of national institutional effects
Lloyd, Caroline; Payne, Jonathan - In: Work, Employment & Society 27 (2013) 1, pp. 3-20
There has been considerable debate about the impact of different national institutional environments on work organization. The Nordic countries, with their strong trade unions and well developed systems of social partnership around collective bargaining and vocational education and training, are...
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EXPLICIT SOCIAL COSTS OF CRIME IN A TIME OF CRISIS - COSTS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT IN THE DRIVERS’ CRIMES
Dias, Tânia; Sousa, Pedro - In: Managing Structural Changes - Trends and Requirements
By defining some behaviors as crimes, law defines incentives and protects society from direct and indirect, tangible and intangible negative impacts. Whatever the severity of the prescribed penalties for those that prevaricate, society and its institutions need to act at the level of law...
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The Equivalency Principle for Discounting the Value of Natural Assets: An Application to an Investment Project in the Basque Coast
Chiabai, Aline; Galarraga, Ibon; Markandya, Anil; … - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 56 (2013) 4, pp. 535-550
Making decisions about optimal investments in green infrastructure necessitates setting social discount rates. This paper suggests a practical way for determining the discount rate for projects or programmes in which one of the options is to maintain or restore land to an undeveloped state. We...
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On a fallacy in the Kaldor–Hicks efficiency–equity analysis
Ellerman, David - In: Constitutional Political Economy 25 (2014) 2, pp. 125-136
This paper shows that implicit assumptions about the numeraire good in the Kaldor–Hicks efficiency–equity analysis involve a “same-yardstick” fallacy (a fallacy pointed out by Paul Samuelson in another context). These results have negative implications for cost-benefit analysis, the...
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Favourable cost-benefit in an early defibrillation programme using dual dispatch of ambulance and fire services in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
Sund, Björn; Svensson, Leif; Rosenqvist, Mårten; … - In: The European Journal of Health Economics 13 (2012) 6, pp. 811-818
The intervention of dual dispatch defibrillation by ambulance and fire services in the County of Stockholm had positive economic effects. For the cost-benefit analysis, the return on investment was high and the cost-effectiveness showed levels below the threshold value for economic efficiency...
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Designing a long-term flood risk management plan for the Scheldt estuary using a risk-based approach
Broekx, Steven; Smets, Steven; Liekens, Inge; Bulckaen, Dirk - In: Natural Hazards 57 (2011) 2, pp. 245-266
The Scheldt is a tidal river that originates in France and flows through Belgium and the Netherlands. The tides create significant flood risks in both the Flemish region in Belgium and the Netherlands. Due to sea level rise and economic development, flood risks will increase during this century....
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Transport system management under extreme weather risks: views to project appraisal, asset value protection and risk-aware system management
Leviäkangas, P.; Michaelides, S. - In: Natural Hazards 72 (2014) 1, pp. 263-286
Until recently, research on potential economic impacts of climate change and extreme weather events on transport infrastructure was scarce, but currently this area is rapidly expanding. Indeed, there is a growing international interest, including the European area, regarding the impacts of...
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Cost-benefit analysis of vetiver system-based rehabilitation measures for landslide-damaged mountainous agricultural lands in the lower Northern Thailand
Boonyanuphap, Jaruntorn - In: Natural Hazards 69 (2013) 1, pp. 599-629
On May 23, 2006, the landslide-debris flow occurred in several places of the lower Northern Thailand. These destroyed about 4,000 houses resulting in about 10,000 people having to be permanently evacuated. They also damaged large areas of high potential agricultural growth in the highland and...
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