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Educate or adjudicate? Socio-economic heterogeneity and welfare

Neyaptı, Bilin - 2015

This paper presents a model to explore the welfare effects of the government's choice over two types of public goods provision: domestic regulatory and security spending (adjudication) versus education. Output is a function of physical and social capital, both of which can be heterogeneous...

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Inventions and their commercial exploitation in academic institutions: Analysing determinants among academics

Bijedić, Teita; Chlosta, Simone; Werner, Arndt - 2016

factors affect the innovation and knowledge transfer activities of male and female academics. We show that Gender differences …Institutions of higher education are considered as an important source of innovation. Consequently, big efforts are … position) affect such innovation transfer activities. While women generate fewer inventions than men, the fulltime employed …

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Labour market stability in a zero-growth economy

Jimenez, Valeria - 2023

Although traditionally post-Keynesians tackle unemployment issues through the stimulation of aggregate demand, boosting demand indefinitely is no longer possible if we consider environmental constraints. In fact, according to several ecological economists, meeting the environmental targets of...

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From unpaid to paid care work: the macroeconomic implications of HIV and AIDS on women's time-tax burdens

Antonopoulos, Rania; Toay, Taun N. - 2009

This paper considers public employment guarantee programs in the context of South Africa as a means to address the nexus of poverty, unemployment, and unpaid work burdensall factors exacerbated by HIV/AIDS. It further discusses the need for genderinformed public job creation in areas that...

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Government size, civic capital and economic performance: An O-ring approach

Mauro, Luciano; Pigliaru, Francesco; Carmeci, Gaetano - 2025

This paper explores how civic capital shapes the relationship between government size and economic performance. Building on an exogenousgrowth version of Barro (1990), we incorporate O-ring technology to capture task complementarity in the public sector, highlighting the role of civic capital in...

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The right to a job, the right types of projects: employment guarantee policies from a gender perspective

Antonopoulos, Rania - 2007

, and unpaid work, on the other, well-designed employment guarantee policies can promote job creation, gender equality, and …

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The current economic and financial crisis: a gender perspective

Antonopoulos, Rania - 2009

Widespread economic recessions and protracted financial crises have been documented as setting back gender equality and … the strict boundaries of the market. The paper also makes this point: examined through the prism of gender equality, the … international levels end up aggravating inequities, gender equality processes face many more barriers, especially among the poor. …

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State, difference, and diversity: toward a path of expanded democracy and gender equality

Antonopoulos, Rania; Cos-Montiel, Francisco - 2007

gender differences? In other words, should the state be gender-blind or gender-sensitive? Gender, ethnic, religious, sexual … understanding of gender-based asymmetries. …

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Saving social security

Lane, Edward - 2024

For more than 25 years, the Social Security Trust Fund has been projected to run out of money in 2033 (give or take a few years), potentially causing benefits to be severely reduced in the absence of corrective legislative action. Today (February 2024), projections are made by the Social...

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Protecting social security: The case against extending the full retirement age

Lane, Edward - 2025

The Social Security "full retirement age" (FRA) is the age at which retirement income benefits are available without reduction for early commencement. Presently, that age is 67 for those born in 1960 or later. This paper is about the unfair and unnecessary threat to reduce Social Security...

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