This study analyses costs and benefits of a public-private funded individual learning account (ILA) for the labour force in the Netherlands. We consider an ILA that is funded by subsidies targeted at low- and medium-educated workers and co-funded by training levies as a share of the wage bill....

This paper investigates the unclear costs and benefits of the cryptocurrency’s spinoff. I find that the Bitcoin and Bitcoin cash spinoff (or hard fork) produce negative average abnormal returns unlike the corporate spinoff. In addition, I observe that cryptocurrency miners experience a...

In Finland, large firms are partially liable for the costs of disability and unemployment benefits paid to their former workers. To estimate the effects of such costs, we exploit a reform that extended this cost-sharing to cover a new group of blue-collar workers. We show that experience rating...

It is impossible to effectively analyze public policy without considering the decision-making processes that will define and implement public policy and, more importantly, the choice of which of these decision-makers will decide what issues. Or so I have argued for over 50 years. I have referred...

To date, over 689 million people worldwide subsist in extreme poverty. To address this staggering statistic, this paper explores two leading microfinance models as potential solutions. First, there is a focus on the Grameen Solidarity Group model and its reliance on group accountability to...

Scholars of regulation generally view the procedures that agencies must follow when promulgating rules as instruments by which political principals control bureaucratic agents. Much like political principals attempt to use procedural checks to constrain regulatory agencies’ actions, these same...

Background: Health economic evaluation of digital nursing technologies (DNT) is important to provide information that helps avoid undesirable developments and implementations as well as increase the chances of success of developed applications. At the same time, studies and evidence on...