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This paper provides novel evidence on the causal effect on female employment of labor market deregulation by using the 1985 amendments to the Labor Standards Law (LSL) in Japan as a natural experiment. The original LSL of 1947 prohibited women from working overtime exceeding two hours a day; six...
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Supporting working mothers to balance their work and childcare responsibilities is a central objective of maternal and parental leave policies. Nearly all countries offer some forms of maternity and family leave programs for childbearing on a national basis. This chapter reviews various types of...
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This is a conceptual paper. The author contends that business model evolves out of economic and political philosophy prevailing in the contemporary times. This paper presents a summary of evolution of the present business model based on the economic and political ideologies, identifies the...
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data on policy entrepreneurs. The researcher undertook qualitative study on a few policy entrepreneurs from India for the …
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Bibliographic methods offer an advanced microscope-like tool to probe specific fields of inquiry. In this article, we use these methodological tools to demonstrate how a seminal article diffused and influenced the intellectual structure of the public administration (PA) field. We do this by...
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Supporting working mothers to balance their work and childcare responsibilities is a central objective of maternal and parental leave policies. Nearly all countries offer some forms of maternity and family leave programs for childbearing on a national basis. This chapter reviews various types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414165
Employers seeking to control employee behavior outside of working hours is nothing new. However, recent developments have extended efforts to control employee behavior into new areas, with new significance. Employers seek to control legal behavior by employees outside of working hours, to have...
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This study examines how people with disabilities and chronic health conditions—members of a large and diverse group often overlooked by Canadian public policy—are making sense of the Canadian federal government's response to COVID-19. Using original national online survey data collected in...
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We study the effect of bank merger deregulation on market structure and wages in the banking industry. We show that … state deregulation of bank mergers and acquisitions increased the market share of large, multi-state banks and lowered wages …-market concentration, though its effect on wages was larger in states with lower initial levels of concentration. These findings suggest …
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unemployment) count towards pension accrual, and (partly) unlinking wages from seniority. This indicates that the end …
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