Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 2,978
Cover Image
Regulatory responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Southeast Asia
OECD - 2021
Regulation is one of the key tools governments can use to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and move towards recovery. While the pandemic underscores the need for well-designed, evidence-based regulatory policies, the extraordinary pressures it imposed often forced governments to shorten...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012696441
Cover Image
A Meeting of Minds on Impact Assessment : When Ex Ante Evaluation Meets Ex Post Judicial Control
Alemanno, Alberto - 2013
This article aims at exploring the interactions that may arise from the European institutions' increasing reliance on ex ante evaluation mechanisms of proposed legislation, such as Impact Assessment (IA), and ex post judicial review of adopted legislation. IA, the privileged ex ante evaluation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014179385
Cover Image
When Competition Plays Clean : How Electricity Market Liberalization Facilitated State-level Climate Policies in the United States
Lee, Nathan - 2019
Why do some governments adopt policies to mitigate climate change while others do not? In this study, I illustrate the importance of industrial organization in shaping prospects for climate mitigation policy. Using a generalized difference-in-differences analysis, I show that U.S. states that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012900366
Cover Image
Regulatory Impact Assessment in Slovakia : Performance and Procedural Reform
Staronova, Katarina - 2016
Regulatory reforms in Europe and OECD countries in the last decade have focused on various tools that would improve ‘regulatory quality’ by bringing more evidence, science and analysis into policy making. This trend was also followed by Central and Eastern European Countries where regulatory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014126556
Cover Image
Can hiring subsidies benefit the unemployed? : hiring subsidies can be a very cost-effective way of helping the unemployed, but only when they are carefully targeted
Brown, Alessio J. G. - 2015
Long-term unemployment can lead to skill attrition and have detrimental effects on future employment prospects …, particularly following periods of economic crises when employment growth is slow and cannot accommodate high levels of unemployment … costeffective and efficient means of reducing unemployment, during both periods of economic stability and recovery. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011432202
Cover Image
Evolution of living standards in Romanian rural area during the COVID-19 pandemic
Lupu, Geanina-Valentina - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 321-327). 2020
production, consumption, technical unemployment which has visible effects on the decrease of income of all, but especially on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518779
Cover Image
Minimum wages for domestic workers : impact evaluation of the Indian experience
Gudibande, Rohan Ravindra; Jacob, Arun - 2018
The paper explores the labor market effect of minimum wage legislations in the informal sector for a developing country. The paper conducts an impact evaluation of the minimum wage legislation for domestic workers introduced in four states in India over the period of 2004-2012. Combining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012163058
Cover Image
A Model for a Regulatory Impact Analysis System in Tajikistan
Barreto, Ruben - 2015
Tajikistan does not have today a Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA) process to review the more than 1,000 legal acts that are adopted every year. This contributes to high regulatory costs and risks. A RIA System is a transformational program difficult to implement. This brief proposes a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009518
Cover Image
Does regulatory Impact assessment (RIA) really evaluate regulatory impact? : the case of the Czech Republic
Jára, Karel; Schwarz, Jiří - 2012
The basic goal of Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) is to improve regulatory quality by ex ante selecting the best alternative using cost-benefit analysis and enabling ex post evaluation of the real impact. Both goals are achievable only when RIA is properly implemented for all potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010193053
Cover Image
Does occupational deregulation affect in-company vocational training? : evidence from the 2004 reform of the German Trade and Crafts Code
Runst, Petrik; Thomä, Jörg - 2018
estimate the effects of the deregulation of the German Trade and Crafts Code in 2004 on the overall vocational training levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012040257