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Japan’s national hospital system, which consists of a combination of private, national, prefectural and metropolitan hospitals, is the largest employers of the of the doctors. The article provides details on the women doctors’ discontinuous workforce participation in the Japanese hospital...
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University graduates in the UK are more concentrated in regions where the cost of housing is higher, implying that they face a higher cost-of-living that could possibly reduce the graduate real wage relative to other groups and carry implications for measures of wage dispersion. This paper...
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Abstract Deutsch Die Signifikanz des Thatcherismus als Ideologie liegt in einer Form autoritären Neoliberalismus, im Sinne einer Untergliederung des Nationalstaates an die Anforderungen der Wirtschaftsfreiheit. Demnach wird jede Regulierung und jeder Rechtsrahmen für das Funktionieren der...
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This paper studies the relation between internal migration and public spending on public goods. We describe centralized public policy when a central government is comprised of elected representatives from local electoral districts. Internal migration determines the median voter in the districts....
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Income drops permanently after an involuntary job displacement, but it has never been clear what happens to long-run wealth in the United States. This paper concludes that involuntary job displacement has large effects on wealth throughout a worker's lifetime. Upon displacement, wealth falls 14%...
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A comparison of the 2007-08 crisis with that of 1929 showed its extreme gravity, but it also may have implied that the old harmful mistakes would not be repeated. After four years, the crisis has not been solved and it even threatens to worsen. Neo-conservative Republicans claim that this is...
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Seit 20 Jahren steigen die Topeinkommen in der Schweiz. Das Top 1% Prozent der Steurzahlenden verfügt inzwischen über mehr als 10% der gesamteinkommen. Auch die globale Finanzkrise 2008-2009 hat dem weltweiten Aufwärtstrend bei den Topeinkommen keinen Abbruch getan. Besonders ausgeprägt ist...
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, Italy, and Portugal), and by using transition matrices and a selection of mobility indices as empirical tools, the direction …
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This study tries to discuss the economic effects of various inputs if the wage rate of a firm is increased. Cobb-Douglas production function, 6×6 bordered Hessian matrix, and 6×6 Jacobian are used here during the mathematical calculations to investigate economic predictions. Adjustment of...
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This study investigates the impact of discretionary tax cuts on income and consumption inequality in the United Kingdom. Using granular survey data from approximately 340,000 households, we construct quarterly inequality measures spanning 1970 to 2020 to assess the heterogeneous effects of...
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