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What Have Two Decades of British Economic Reform Delivered in Terms of Productivity Growth?
Card, David; Freeman, Richard B. - In: International Productivity Monitor 5 (2002) Fall, pp. 41-52
researchers is the impact of these reforms on productivity growth. In this article, Richard B. Freeman of the London School of … trends in productivity growth in Britain and other major developed countries and estimate the impact of British economic …, privatization, profit and share ownership, and self-employment increased UK productivity growth 0.35 per cent per year over the 1979 …
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Entwicklung der Entwicklungspolitik
Andersen, Uwe (ed.) - 1999
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Entwicklungspolitik Als Beitrag Zur Armutsbekämpfung Und Zur Erreichung Der Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) (Development Policy as a Contribution to Poverty Reduction and the A...
Loewe, Markus - 2013
fields (foreign aid, trade policy, agricultural policy etc.) … aid effectiveness, this system should be the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which are now recognised by all relevant … sustainability.The question is what this means for future development policy? Apparently, donors have to increase their contributions …
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Considering the extremely poor : multidimensional poverty measurement for Germany
Nowak, Daniel; Scheicher, Christoph - 2014
This paper applies the Alkire and Foster (2011) index of multidimensional poverty to German data. This is done with respect to the politically most important dimensions of poverty mentioned in the German federal government's report on poverty and wealth. Additionally, a modification of the...
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The probability of poverty for mothers after childbirth and divorce in Europe : the role of social stratification and tax-benefit policies
Popova, Daria; Navickė, Jekaterina - 2019
This paper looks at the effects of tax-benefit systems and social stratification determinants on the probability of poverty among mothers after childbirth and divorce/separation. The analysis was carried out for twelve EU countries, which represent a variety of welfare regimes providing...
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Der Mindestlohn muss her, weil man von Arbeit leben können muss
Eilart, Susanne; Nahrstedt, Eva; Prack, Stefanie; … - 2009
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Germany's post-2000 stagnation in the European context - a lesson in macroeconomic mismanagement
Hein, Eckhard; Truger, Achim - 2006
In the present paper we question the mainstream diagnosis of Germany's post-2000 stagnation as well as the prescribed remedies. We show that the "institutional sclerosis" view of Germany's stagnation is unfounded and that therefore the political measures proposed and actually taken are...
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Trends of Children's Height and Parental Unemployment : A Large-Scale Anthropometric Study on Eastern Germany, 1994 - 2006
Baten, Jörg; Böhm, Andreas - 2021
The average height of children is an indicator for the quality of nutrition and health care. Heights have never declined over longer time spans in Eastern Germany since 1880 - except for the most recent period 1997-2006. In the Eastern German Land of Brandenburg, a data set of 253,050 pre-school...
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Poverty Dynamics in Four OECD Countries
Antolin, Pablo; Dang, Thai-Thanh; Oxley, Howard - 2014
This study examines the dynamics of poverty for four OECD countries (Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States). It provides information on patterns of poverty, which groups stay in poverty the longest, and household/individual characteristics and life-course events which appear...
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Fiscal and Social Policy : Financing Long-Term Care in Germany
Götze, Ralf - 2014
. We argue that the introduction of the LTCI can be explained as an interplay between fiscal and social policy. In order to … tension between fiscal and social policy, but overshadowed by a revival of ideological debates over private vs. public …
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