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Occupational licensing is among the fastest-growing labor market institutions in the U.S. economy. One of the key features of occupational licensing is that the law determines who gets to do the work. In those cases where universally licensed occupations are both complements to and substitutes...
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'Australie et le Canada<BR>Les fonds de pension australiens et canadiens sont parmi les premiers à avoir investi en infrastructures …
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the Swiss example, firstly, it illustrates the importance of prudential regulation and adequate transparency standards …
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level of regulation or fiscal burden on labour. Econometric evidence on the effects of selected reforms on aggregate labour …
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efficiency arguments are questionable, because of the disemployment effects of strict regulation. Regulation is better explained … rationally desires strict regulation to divert rent from other groups such as the skilled workers and the unemployed. Legal … tradition. Given a predisposition to intervene, these countries begin with some degree of labour regulation, which then creates …
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This paper seeks to contribute to a forward-looking debate on possible reform options for the Canada Pension Plan (CPP … problems in Canada’s public pension insurance programs, but also because it could improve fairness across generations. The … retirement age in Canada. …
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The paper reviews evidence that suggests that, over the coming two decades, people are likely to stay in the work force at least five years longer, possibly by considerably more. The implications for policy are surprisingly large and surprisingly unrecognized. Recent trends, if extended into the...
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Following ECB-president Draghi's remark that the European Social Model does no longer exist and the crisis can only be overcome through a combination of austerity and structural reform, this paper examines the consequences of austerity measures and structural reforms adopted during the crisis in...
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In this paper I analyse a labour market where the wage is endogenously determined according to an Efficient Bargaining process between a firm and a labour union whose members are partitioned into two social groups: the old and the young. Furthermore, I exploit the Single-Mindedness theory, which...
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towards smart systems. We argue that future regulation of smart grids needs to allow more flexibility. Firstly, the core of … of stakeholders makes “one-size-fits-all” regulation simply less suitable, whilst regulation needs to take account of … various interests. In this paper we discuss stakeholder involvement and make policy recommendations to render regulation of …
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