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Labour Supply Effects of a Subsidised Old-Age Part-Time Scheme in Austria

Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Graf, Nikolaus; Hofer, Helmut - Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of … - 2009

In this paper we evaluate the impact of the old-age part-time scheme (OAPT) on the Austrian labour market which was a policy to allow flexible retirement options for the elderly with an aim to increase labour supply. According to our matching estimates employment probability increases slightly,...

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Labour Supply Effects of a Subsidised Old-Age Part-Time Scheme in Austria

Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Graf, Nikolaus; Hofer, Helmut - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2009

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005035020

Essential Drugs in Government Healthcare: Emerging Model of Procurement and Supply

N, Lalitha - eSocialSciences - 2009

Medicines are important in curing and preventing diseases, and hence, the ultimate goal of `Health for Allâ€™ cannot be achieved if people do not have adequate access to essential drugs. Evidences show that substantial savings can be achieved by improving the selection and quantification of...

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Poverty, Inequality and the Role of Social Grants: An Analysis using Decomposition Techniques

Armstrong, Paula; Burger, Cobus - Department of Economics, Fakulteit Ekonomiese en … - 2009

Despite South Africa’s transition from apartheid in 1994, the social landscape is still fragmented along racial lines. However, South Africa has an impressive social grants system by international standards, with social assistance spending as a percentage of GDP comparing to Western European...

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Labour Supply Effects of a Subsidised Old-Age Part-Time Scheme in Austria

Graf, Nikolaus; Hofer, Helmut; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005004574

Incentives in Elementary Education - do They Make a Difference

Ramachandran, Vimala; Mehrotra, Nishi; Jandhyala, Kameshwari - eSocialSciences - 2009

This study tried to bring together the experiences of different approaches to incentives followed by six NGOs in the states of Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. Issues dealing with incentives and the hidden cost of education have been explored with a view to gaining...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005009916

How do public programmes shape strategic R&D collaborations? Project-level evidence from the 5th and 6th EU Framework Programmes.

Matt, Mireille; Robin, Stéphane; Wolff, Sandrine - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA), … - 2009

5th and 6th European R&D Framework Programmes. Our empirical findings support our main propositions. Compared to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005077831

Contrats Incitatifs et Réforme des Douanes dans les PED : une Application des Modèles d’Agence Hiérarchique

ROTA-GRAZIOSI, Grégoire; GEOURJON, Anne-Marie; … - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement … - 2009

Dans de nombreux pays en voie de développement, des Programmes de Vérification des Importations (PVI) ont été instaurés … entreprise privée qui opère dans les pays exportateurs. De tels programmes s’avèrent particulièrement coûteux car l’entreprise se …’efficacité de ces programmes à la lumière de la théorie de l’agence. Plus précisément, nous utilisons le modèle d …

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University-Educated Specialists, the Demand for Them and Their Standing on the Czech Labour Market

Vavrečková, Jana - In: Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2009 (2009) 5, pp. 20-35

The paper deals with one of the biggest problems currently faced by the Czech labour market: namely, a shortage of labour with regard to specialists who have completed tertiary education. The introduction stresses the importance of knowledge capital both in contemporary society and in a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008500680

Social Protection for Informal Workers: Insecurities, Instruments and Institutional Mechanisms

Unni, Jeemol; Rani, Uma - eSocialSciences - 2009

This paper presents a broad definition of social protection to include basic securities, such as income, food, health and shelter, and economic securities including having income generating productive work. A conceptual framework is developed to analyse the causes of insecurities of informal...

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