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Portability of pension, health, and other social benefits: Facts, concepts, issues

Holzmann, Robert; Koettl, Johannes - 2011

Portability of social benefits across professions and countries is an increasing concern for individuals and policy … analytical framework for portability analysis that suggests separating the risk pooling, (implicit or actual) pre-funding and …

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Subsidios al Alumno o a la Escuela: Efectos sobre la Elección de Colegios

Sapelli, Claudio; Torche, Arístides - In: Latin American Journal of Economics-formerly Cuadernos … 39 (2002) 117, pp. 175-202

In this paper we study the determinants of the choice between public and private subsidized schools in the Chilean voucher system. Our empirical results confirm the effects of parent's income and education: higher income and more education increase the pr

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Totalisation/portability of social security benefits: Imperatives for global action

Hoda, Anwarul; Rai, Durgesh Kumar - 2019

The relative importance of migrant workers has been increasing in the world economy. Conscious of their growing numbers, the migrant-receiving and migrant sending countries have agreed to grant social security benefits to migrant workers and their families. To this end they have ratified or...

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Exit, Voice or Loyalty? An Investigation into Mandated Portability of Front-Loaded Private Health Plans

Atal, Juan Pablo; Fang, Hanming; Karlsson, Martin; … - 2017

front-loaded contracts respond to newly mandated portability requirements of their old-age provisions. To foster competition …, effective 2009, the German legislature made the portability of standardized old-age provisions mandatory. Our theoretical model … predicts that the portability reform will increase internal plan switching. However, under plausible assumptions, it will not …

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Informational mobility and productivity: Finnish evidence

Maliranta, Mika; Rouvinen, Petri - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 15 (2006) 6, pp. 605-616

The labor productivity effects of portability and connectivity of information and communication technology (ICT) are … productivity by 9% (corresponding to 5% output elasticity), portability by 32%, wireline connectivity by 14%, and wireless …

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Social security for migrant labour in the Greater Mekong Subregion

Pasadilla, Gloria O. - 2013

portability can be addressed, especially through social security agreements, are also discussed. …

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Social protection for migrant workers in ASEAN

Pasadilla, Gloria; Abella, Manolo - 2012

This paper examines the portability of social protection (old-age, retirement, and survivor benefits) in East Asia … cooperation in social security. It discusses evidence of growth of migration in East Asia and the growing need for portability of … of portability can be addressed, especially through social security agreements. …

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Beans as a Medium of Exchange

Fried, Harold; Levy, Daniel - EconWPA - 2005

This note describes an experiment, which is an extension of the experiment proposed by Levy and Bergen (1993). The experiment is designed to simulate an environment where something that is very similar to fiat money (i.e., is homogenous, durable, portable, storable, divisible, has no intrinsic...

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Simulating a Multiproduct Barter Exchange Economy

Levy, Daniel; Bergen, Mark - EconWPA - 2005

We describe a multiproduct barter trading experiment in which students exchange real goods in an open market based on their own personal preference. The experiment is designed for simulating a pure exchange market in order to demonstrate the role of money and its functions in real economies by...

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Labour Mobility and the Portability of Social Rights in the EU

d'Addio, Anna Cristina; Cavalleri, Maria Chiara - 2013

they result from the analysis of the Eurobarometer survey, wave 75.1 of 2011. Second, it tests whether portability of …

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