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Active labor market programs: Employment gain or fiscal drain?
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Koettl, Johannes - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-36
This paper provides a new perspective by classifying active labor market programs (ALMPs) depending on their objectives, relevance and cost-effectiveness during normal times, a crisis and recovery. We distinguish ALMPs providing incentives for retaining employment, incentives for creating...
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External investigations and disciplinary sanctions against auditors: The impact on audit quality
De Fuentes, Cristina; Illueca, Manuel; … - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 6 (2015) 3, pp. 313-347
In this paper, we provide empirical evidence for the impact of disciplinary sanctions imposed on Spanish auditing firms … and their engagement partners. The disciplinary sanctions resulted from external investigations, which revealed …
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The ruble between the hammer and the anvil: The impact of oil prices and economic sanctions
Dreger, Christian; Kholodilin, Konstantin - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 5 (2015) 44, pp. 587-591
hand with the Western sanctions that were imposed due to the political tensions between Russia and Ukraine. At the same … due to the falling oil prices, while the sanctions are playing a rather subordinate role. …
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Der Rubel zwischen Hammer und Amboss: Der Einfluss von Ölpreisen und Wirtschaftssanktionen
Dreger, Christian; Kholodilin, Konstantin - In: DIW Wochenbericht 82 (2015) 44, pp. 1051-1056
hand with the Western sanctions that were imposed due to the political tensions between Russia and Ukraine. At the same … due to the falling oil prices, while the sanctions are playing a rather subordinate role. …
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The impact of monitoring and sanctioning on unemployment exit and job-finding rates
McVicar, Duncan - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
appropriate level of job search activity, and by imposing sanctions for infractions. Empirical studies consistently show that job … search monitoring and benefit sanctions reduce unemployment duration and increase job entry in the short term. There is some … evidence that longer-term effects of benefit sanctions may be negative. …
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Is the DCFTA Between EU and Ukraine Negatively Impacting Russia's Economy?
Pohoata, Ion; Baciu, Aida-Loredana; Roibu, Paula-Alexandra - In: CES Working Papers 8 (2016) 4, pp. 689-704
This paper aims to highlight specific aspects and consequences of the dual nature of relations between Russia and Ukraine in the context of DCFTA’s implementation. We are interested to encounter the point of contact and the interference areas to which Ukraine is referring to secure its...
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Iran and the European Union after the Nuclear Deal
Fiedler, Radosław - In: CES Working Papers 10 (2018) 3, pp. 291-305
This article is focused on relations between the European Union and Iran after the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The nuclear deal gave Iran a unique chance for developing cooperation with the EU. There are challenges to this, such as the Iranian autocratic system, its violation of...
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Crimea and punishment: the impact of sanctions on Russian economy and economies of the euro area
Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; Netšunajev, Aleksei - In: Baltic Journal of Economics 19 (2019) 1, pp. 39-51
sanctions on each other, including the euro zone members. The paper investigates the impact of the sanctions on the real side of … the economies of Russia and the euro area. The effects of sanctions are analyzed with a structural vector autoregression …. To pin down the effect we are interested in, we include an index that measures the intensity of the sanctions in the …
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Have sanctions modified Iran's trade policy? An evidence of asianization and de-europeanization through the gravity model
Popova, Liudmila; Rasoulinezhad, Ehsan - In: Economies 4 (2016) 4, pp. 1-15
This study is an empirical attempt to find out whether under sanctions Iran's trade direction has shifted away from … significant negative effect of sanctions on Iran-EU bilateral trade (by an average of 46.9%), while it has a positive impact on … various sanctions related to Iran's nuclear program has pushed the country's foreign trade to reorient away from Europe …
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Alleviation and sanctions in social dilemma games
Drouvelis, Michalis - In: Games 6 (2015) 3, pp. 368-380
This paper reports an experiment which compares behaviour in two punishment regimes: (i) a standard public goods game with punishment in which subjects are given the opportunity to punish other group members (democratic punishment regime) and (ii) a public goods game environment where all group...
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