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Tax Rates and Corruption: Labour-market and Fiscal Effects. Empirical cross-country comparisons on OECD and transition countries

Lackó, Mária - 2004

The paper attempts to explain how tax rates, the extent of corruption and various institutional aspects of the labour …

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Public servants in parliament: Theory and evidence on its determinants in Germany

Stutzer, Alois; Braendle, Thomas - 2009

This paper addresses the personal linkages between the public service and the legislature that emerge because public servants pursue a political mandate. There are concerns that the strong representation of public servants in many Western parliaments compromises the constitutionally proposed...

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Infrastructure, institutions and identity - Determinants of regional development: Empirical evidence from Germany

Gäbler, Stefanie - 2020

Stefanie Gäbler prepared this study while she was working at the ifo Center for Public Finance and Political Economy. The study was completed in March 2020 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It consists of six distinct empirical essays...

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Inequality, infrastructure, and institutions: Empirical studies in public economics and political economy

Dorn, Florian - 2021

Florian Dorn prepared this study during his doctoral studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich (LMU). The study was completed in September 2020 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics. This dissertation contributes to the empirics of public economics and...

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Three Empirical Essays on the Long-Run Consequences of Early-Life Living Conditions

Neelsen, Sven - 2012

This study was prepared by Sven Neelsen while he was working with the ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in December 2011 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in May 2012. The study investigates long-run effects of...

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Griechenland: Eine Rettungsbilanz

Schrader, Klaus; Laaser, Claus-Friedrich - 2018

Die Autoren zeigen, dass Griechenland trotz des Abschlusses der über acht Jahre dauernden Rettungsprogramme und einer … Investoren zu verbessern und neues Vertrauen in den Standort Griechenland zu schaffen. … during the last years, Greece still faces serious economic problems. Even though the debt crisis was temporarily defused by a …

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Regulating the working conditions of platform work: What can we learn from EU member states?

Guinea, Oscar; Sisto, Elena; du Roy, Oscar - 2024

This Policy Brief offers a comprehensive evaluation and comparison of the regulatory frameworks governing platform work in four European countries. The comparative analysis draws upon research conducted by the OECD and the World Economic Forum (WEF) on the principles of good regulation. Adapting...

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Cities: Places of new European prosperity. Compendium of case studies on the socio-ecological transition of urban commons

Sauer, Thomas; Elsen, Susanne; Kuhn, Stefan; Barnebeck, … - 2015

Taking into account the potentially different starting and framework conditions of regions in different parts of the European Union, we will present a new approach for sustainability transition analysis. We hypothesise: favourable overall institutional conditions, such as a high degree of formal...

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Does social distrust always lead to a stronger support for government intervention?

Pitlik, Hans; Kouba, Ludek - 2014

We address empirically trust as a determinant of support for government intervention. The central notion provided in the present paper is that the influence of generalized social trust on intervention attitudes is conditional on the perceived reliability, honesty, and incorruptibility of state...

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Overcoming reform resistance and political implementation of large-scale welfare state reforms

Pitlik, Hans; Heinemann, Friedrich; Schweickert, Rainer - 2014

Long-term beneficial welfare state reforms not only face opposition from powerful insiders and beneficiaries of the system in place. While potential losers from a policy change are often relatively easy to spot, ewll-designed reforms generate mostly diffuse gains, and the potential winners are...

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