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Railway Privatisation and Regulation in Great Britain
Bolt, Chris - In: CESifo DICE Report 03 (2005) 4, pp. 16-20
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The Provision of Water Services in the UK
Zabel, Thomas - In: CESifo DICE Report 05 (2007) 2, pp. 13-20
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Does Smoking Really Harm Your Earnings so Much? Biases in Current Estimates of the Smoking Wage Penalty
Anger, Silke; Kvasnicka, Michael - In: Applied Economics Letters 17 (2010) 6, pp. 561-564
Empirical studies on the earnings effects of tobacco use have found significant wage penalties attached to smoking. This article produces evidence that suggests that these estimates are significantly upward biased. The bias arises from a general failure in the literature to control for past...
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Public sector contracting: An Australian study of changing work conditions
Ryan, Neal; Furneaux, Craig; Pink, Anthony; Brown, Kerry - In: Management Revue 16 (2005) 4, pp. 438-457
. The study focuses on evaluating the impact of the contracting-out of these services on the wages and conditions of … savings for government, these resulted partly from a reduction in wages and benefits of former blue collar staff, despite the … best efforts of the Western Australian government to protect staff wages and benefits. The research makes an important …
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Who is Reaping the Gains from Globalisation? – The Role of Labour Market Flexibility
Seidel, Tobias - In: CESifo DICE Report 03 (2005) 1, pp. 54-59
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Welfare Reform, Work and Wages: A Summary of the US Experience
Grogger, Jeffrey; Karoly, Lynn A. - In: CESifo DICE Report 03 (2005) 2, pp. 8-12
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The labor market in Germany, 2000–2016
Schneider, Hilmar; Rinne, Ulf - In: IZA World of Labor (2017)
The EU’s largest economy, Germany, has managed to find an effective and unique combination of flexibility and rigidity in its labor market. Institutions that typically characterize rigid labor markets are effectively balanced by flexibility instruments. Important developments since 2000...
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The labor market in Germany, 2000-2018
Schneider, Hilmar; Rinne, Ulf - In: IZA World of Labor (2019)
The EU's largest economy, Germany, has managed to find an effective and unique combination of flexibility and rigidity in its labor market. Institutions that typically characterize rigid labor markets are effectively balanced by flexibility instruments. Important developments since 2000 include...
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Agenda für eine neue Finanzmarktarchitektur
Schäfer, Dorothea - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 51/52, pp. 808-817
, "alle Finanzmärkte, Finanzprodukte und Finanzmarktteilnehmer einer Regulierung oder angemessenen Überwachung" zu unterwerfen …
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Staatliche Banken können schwache Bankenregulierung kompensieren
Shortland, Anja - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 37, pp. 11-15
Staatliche Banken können eine wichtige Rolle bei der Sicherung der Funktionsfähigkeit von Finanzsystemen und für die gesamtwirtschaftliche Entwicklung spielen. Dies gilt offenbar vor allem dann, wenn die Bankenregulierung schwach ist und Banken nicht ausreichend überwacht werden. Die...
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