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As a consequence of the rapid growth of temporary agency employment in Germany, the debate on the poor working conditions of temps, specifically their remuneration, has intensified recently. Using administrative data, the paper shows that the wage gap for German temp workers is rather large and...
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Danish reform. We separately identify the effect of aid from that of other observed and unobserved variables such as parental … income. We exploit the combination of a kinked aid scheme and a reform of the student aid scheme to identify the effect of …
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suggests a reallocation of voting shares to emerging and developing countries, an antedated reform of the quota system, a … delinking of the managing director's election from regional origin and support for the Singapore quota and voice reform of 2006 …. Unfortunately, these reform decisions remain in part imprecise, they leave crucial issues untouched and they are not implemented …
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The ECB reform is designed to meet the challenges of an enlarged monetary union in the ECB Council. The reform is …
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dimensions are then examined in relationship with economic reform in a panel regression framework. Results show that most … dimensions of social cohesion do not in fact influence reform capacity. However, views of fairness based on merit, in contrast to … reform. …
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use the unanticipated reform in 2007 to assess how a move from a means-tested to an earnings-related benefit affects … higher-order births. By using the German Mikrozensus 2010, I find that the reform significantly affected the timing of higher … not display any catch-up effects. I also find a substantial heterogeneity inWest and East Germany. Because the reform …
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Public sector reforms are commonplace in developing countries. Much of the literature about these reforms reflects on their failures. This paper asks about the successes and investigates which of two competing theories best explain why some reforms exhibit such positive deviance. These theories...
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abridged version of the story offers instructors a classroom case to discuss leaders and leadership in governance reform. …
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