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Under heavy pressure : intense monitoring and accumulation of sanctions for young welfare recipients in Germany
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Uhlendorff, Arne; Wolff, Joachim - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung - 2015
cash benefit is withdrawn for three months. A second sanction of the same type within one year implies a complete benefit … unobservables into account. Our results suggest that both the first and the second sanction increase the probability of finding a … job, but that these jobs go along with lower earnings due to first but not the second sanction. Moreover, first sanctions …
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The impact of monitoring and sanctioning on unemployment exit and job-finding rates : job search monitoring and benefit sanctions generally reduce unemployment duration and boost e...
McVicar, Duncan - 2014
Unemployment benefits often reduce incentives to search for a job. Policymakers have responded to this behaviour by setting minimum job search requirements, by monitoring to check that unemployment benefit recipients are engaged in the appropriate level of job search activity, and by imposing...
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The Ruble between the hammer and the anvil : oil prices and economic sanctions
Dreger, Christian; Fidrmuc, Jarko; Cholodilin, … - 2015
The exchange rate fluctuations strongly affect the Russian economy, given its heavy dependence on foreign trade and investment. Since January 2014, the Ruble lost 50% of its value against the US Dollar. The fall of the currency started with the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. The impact of...
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Performance of Iran's economy 2004 to 2012
Pirouz, Kamrouz; Rezvani, Farahmand - In: Journal of international business and economics : JIBE 14 (2014) 3, pp. 181-186
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Alleviation and sanctions in social dilemma games
Drouvelis, Michalis - In: Games 6 (2015) 3, pp. 368-380
This paper reports an experiment which compares behaviour in two punishment regimes: (i) a standard public goods game with punishment in which subjects are given the opportunity to punish other group members (democratic punishment regime) and (ii) a public goods game environment where all group...
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Day-fines : should the rich pay more?
Kantorowicz-Reznichenko, Elena - In: Review of law and economics : publ. in cooperation with … 11 (2015) 3, pp. 481-501
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Living Institutions : sharing and sanctioning water among
Schnegg, Michael; Linke, Theresa - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 68 (2015), pp. 205-214
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A computable general equilibrium model of international sanctions
Gharibnavaz, M. Reza; Waschik, Robert G. - 2015
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The MDGs in Myanmar : relevant or redundant?
Ware, Anthony - In: Journal of the Asia Pacific economy 16 (2011) 4, pp. 579-596
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Political institutions and government spending behavior in Iran
Dizaji, Sajjad Faraji; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2014
This study examines how quality of political institutions affects the distribution of government budget and how development of government spending in major sections shapes the political institutions in Iran. This question has become especially important due to recent international sanctions,...
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