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The concept of bioeconomy has increasingly gained importance. The transition towards a bioeconomy is a new challenge … for the sustainable use of soils. In the development of transition strategies, the perspectives of actors need to be … functions are ful-filled by actors in the transition towards a bioeconomy. Actors relevant for soil policy have different …
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The concept of bioeconomy has increasingly gained importance. The transition towards a bioeconomy is a new challenge … for the sustainable use of soils. In the development of transition strategies, the perspectives of actors need to be … functions are ful-filled by actors in the transition towards a bioeconomy. Actors relevant for soil policy have different …
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We present a model of wage contract violation that implies a possibility of multiple equilibria in the level of arrears. Positive feedback arises because each employer's arrears affect the costs of late payment faced by other employers operating in the same labor market, resulting in a network...
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that at the end of planning, transition countries had substantially different endowments from their contemporaneous non-transition … transition in 2002–05, poor transition economies differ much more from their non-transition counterparts, in respect to both good … and bad aspects of the planning legacy, than do relatively rich transition countries. However, the persistent beneficial …
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The effects of employment protection legislation (EPL) on a country’s labor market are clear in theory but empirical evidence is only starting to catch up. In particular, EPL is not robust as an indicator of overall unemployment, but previous panel data analyses have shown it affects the flow...
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transition countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and the Slovak Republic). Using enterprise survey data we show that the … European transition countries are shown to have closed the gap in institutional quality with East Germany in many areas. We … also show that enterprises in the central European transition countries have compensated for country level institutional …
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Theory tells us that weak rule of law and institutions deter cross-border integration, deter investment relative to trade, and inhibit trade finance. Drawing on a survey of more than 300 Chinese enterprises that are doing or have done business in North Korea, we consider how informal...
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four decades. First, transition probability matrices are computed to look at changes in the position of countries at the …
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Corruption is an issue of increasing visibility in the academic and policy literature on governance and public policy. Whilst it is often talked about, there appears to be some lack of clarity on both its nature and the nature of its determinants. This has led to some increase in the effort to...
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