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Aspects of Non-Standard Employment in Europe [PDF]

, 2017
[Excerpt] This report investigates recent developments in non-standard employment in the European Union. While the overall policy context is ‘social protection for all’, it does not focus exclusively on social protection.
Eurofound
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Continuities in Policies and Turnover Among Actors: Instrument Constituencies in French Primary Care Reforms

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the past decade, the concept of “instrument constituency” has been proposed as a way in which to bridge studies on policy networks and policy instruments. This concept focuses on policy networks composed of diverse actors who are brought together by the shared goal of promoting a specific instrument.
Noémie Morize
wiley   +1 more source

Non‐State Regulators? Civil Society as Extension of the State in a Context of a Regularization Scheme for Undocumented Migrants

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT “Opération Papyrus” was implemented in the Swiss Canton of Geneva between 2017 and 2018 with the aim of granting residence permits to undocumented migrants who met pre‐established criteria. This program serves as an exemplary case of involving nongovernmental actors to facilitate what were originally state‐controlled procedures.
Jan‐Erik Refle, Adela Sanela Elezovic, Claudine Burton‐Jeangros, Yves Jackson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

When Rare Is Not Small: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Initiatives and Therapy

Exploration, EarlyView.
In the precision‐medicine era, rare diseases must not be sidelined in translational infrastructure. The Mr. Cai Lei—led “Ice‐Breaking Team” turns an amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patient community into a sustainable ecosystem, realigning philanthropy, data, and research and development to reshape rare‐disease pipelines and guide precision therapies ...
Yang Liu, Xue Xia, Yingfang Chen, Haoying Yang, Xiaochen Chen, Lei Cai, Bingyang Shi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Dollar's Double Life: Not All Dollar Appreciations Are Born Equal for the Cross‐Currency Basis

Journal of Futures Markets, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper revisits the relationship between the US dollar and cross‐currency basis (XCB) swap spreads. We show that the strength and direction of this relationship depend on the prevailing regime of the broad dollar. The evidence suggests that the well‐documented “dollar appreciates, basis widens” result holds primarily when the dollar is in ...
Daniel Felix Ahelegbey, Oyakhilome Wallace Ibhagui, Florian Gerth   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The future of work: Towards a progressive agenda for all. EPC Issue Paper 9 DECEMBER 2019 [PDF]

, 2019
Europe’s labour markets and the world of work in general are being transformed by the megatrends of globalisation, the fragmentation of the production and value chain, demographic ageing, new societal aspirations and the digitalisation of the economy ...
Dhéret, Claire, Guagliardo, Simona, Palimariciuc, Mihai   +2 more
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Oil Futures Prices, Inflation Expectations, and Bond Risk Premiums

Journal of Futures Markets, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT By decomposing West Texas Intermediate futures price changes into structural supply and demand shocks, this paper shows that dissecting the oil price significantly improves inflation forecasts. Empirically, demand‐driven shocks predict a negative real bond risk premium but a positive inflation risk premium; these opposing effects result in an ...
Haibo Jiang
wiley   +1 more source

The Swedish Insurance Contracts Act 2005 – an overview

, 2008
On 1 January 2006 a new Insurance Contracts Act (Försäkringsavtalslag (SFS 2005:104)) entered into force in Sweden, replacing the Insurance Contracts Act 1927 and the Consumer Insurance Act 1980.
Hjalmarsson, Johanna
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Regulation in the Shadows of Private Law [PDF]

, 2018
With proponents of deregulation ascendant, both domestically and around the world, private regulation appears to be an attractive solution to a seemingly intractable problem—assuming it is or can be effective. This Article adds an important corrective to
Quinn, Pammela S.
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Asymmetric Information With Multiple Risks: The Case of the Chilean Private Health Insurance Market

Health Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We extend the Rothshild and Stiglitz (1976) model to two sources of risk –inpatient and outpatient risk– to better proxy real‐world health insurance markets. We uncover an interesting theoretical possibility: Take individuals A and B, who are low risks in, say, the inpatient dimension but A is riskier in the outpatient dimension.
Dolores de la Mata, Matilde P. Machado, Pau Olivella, Nieves Valdés   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source