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gender and code of ethics on budgetary slack ethical judgment. Design/methodology/approach This study adopts the experimental … indicate that individuals consider budgetary slack more unethical when a code of ethics is present than when it is absent … budgetary slack from an ethical perspective. Additionally, this study contributes to ethics literature by identifying the effect …
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The study analyzes the strategy "Europe 2020" and outlines the economic and social development in light of this strategy. For 2020, the European Commission proposes EU five measurable objectives that will guide the process and will be implemented in the Member States: employment, research and...
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Applying total decentralization requires efficiency in itself, because the administration-citizen relationship will move closer towards that company- client relation (initiator-agent type relationship). Through decentralization the level of a state’s democracy increases, resulting in a basis...
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This paper proposes that reforms by vote-seeking governments and the existence of reform-adverse voters are logically compatible. This results from a commitment problem on the part of voters. Due to economic voting voters cannot credibly commit to reelect a non-reforming government during a...
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The article analyzes the EU’s plan for economic recovery and creation of new jobs, which seeks to coordinate the efforts of Member States for contracting the crisis effects. The anti-crisis programs adopted in some EU Member States and other developed countries as USA and Japan are...
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The Financial and economic crisis has brought to the fore the issues of unemployment, which is a constant concern of the EU. The study analyzes the European Employment Strategy, which aims to create a common framework for action based on the agreement of the Member States relating in order to a...
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We study whether decentralizing public employment services impacts job finding positively, as is suggested by the classic decentralization theorem, or negatively, as is suggested by political economy considerations. Our difference-in-difference estimates for a German reform in 2012 point to...
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This paper studies whether the decentralization of public employment services (PES) increases job placements among the unemployed. Decentralizing PES has been a widely applied reform used by governments aiming to enhance their efficacy. However, economic theory is ambiguous about its effects,...
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This paper studies whether the decentralization of public employment services (PES) increases job placements among the unemployed. Decentralizing PES has been a widely applied reform used by governments aiming to enhance their efficacy. However, economic theory is ambiguous about its effects,...
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