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Doctors without borders : the returns to an occupational license for Soviet immigrant physicians in Israel

Kugler, Adriana D.; Sauer, Robert M. - 2002

Re-licensing requirements for professionals that move across borders are widespread. In this paper, we measure the returns to an occupational license using novel data on Soviet trained physicians that immigrated to Israel. An immigrant re-training assignment rule used by the Israel Ministry of...

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Regulation in the UK: is it getting too heavy?

Sheehy, John - 2006

Some regulation is needed to enhance growth and economic welfare, but too much undermines productivity. Generally, the …

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What do Russians think about transition?

Denisova, Irina; Eller, Markus; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - In: The economics of transition 18 (2010) 2, pp. 249-280

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The optimal regulation of credit rating agencies

Forster, Josef - 2008

& Immordino (2007), we study the optimal regulation of CRAs in a model where rating quality is unobservable and enforcing … regulation is costly. The model shows that minimum rating standards increase the social value of credit ratings. The model also … analyzes implications for regulation in the presence of conflicts of interest between the CRA and the rated clients by direct …