Beyond Collective Agreements: The Rise of the Wage Cushion in Germany
LABOUR, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 452-470, December 2026.ABSTRACT Representative establishment data reveal that over 60% of German plants covered by collective agreements pay wages above the level stipulated in the agreements, creating a wage cushion between actual and contractual wages. While collective bargaining coverage has fallen over time, the prevalence of wage cushions has increased, particularly in ...
André Rieder, Claus Schnabel
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Dynamic externalities of basic medical insurance compensation, health capital accumulation, and economic growth. [PDF]
Front Public HealthYuan X, Yang X.
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Landlords and Tenants: A Class‐Theoretical Approach to the Relations of Social Reproduction
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 6, November 2026.ABSTRACT Current understandings of landlords and tenants are primarily based on individual attributes each group possesses, usually conceptualized as binary divisions or gradational distinctions. In this paper, we offer an alternative: a relational, class‐based concept of housing market actors.
Danielle Kerrigan, David Wachsmuth
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Unbalanced growth and land overvaluation. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S AHirano T, Toda AA.
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Behavioral Factors in Tax Preparer and Tax Compliance Choices
Kyklos, Volume 79, Issue 4, Page 862-878, November 2026.ABSTRACT What tax preparer characteristics are most important to taxpayers in their decision to use a tax preparer, and how does this choice of a tax preparer affect subsequent taxpayer compliance? We use laboratory experiments to examine these questions. We find that individuals in this environment simultaneously choose a preparer and their compliance
James Alm +4 more
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Saudi Arabia's costly war in Yemen: a neoclassical realist theory of overbalancing. [PDF]
Int Relat (David Davies Mem Inst Int Stud)Juneau T.
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Towards a Responsible Liberalism
Kyklos, Volume 79, Issue 4, Page 946-954, November 2026.ABSTRACT Liberalism has many faces, ranging from that which emphasises the laissez‐faire approach of freedom from interference to the interventionist perspective on providing the conditions for people to exercise their liberty. In this essay, after summarising the arguments made by four prominent liberal scholars (namely, Keynes, Hayek, Buchanan and ...
Adam Oliver
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Quantum-like architecture of the social atom: mental marker coherence and the triple-resonance mechanism of cognitive activation. [PDF]
Front Hum NeurosciKhrennikov A, Aspalter C, Zhan L.
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Real and Apparent Deviations From Rational Choice
Kyklos, Volume 79, Issue 4, Page 1153-1178, November 2026.ABSTRACT This paper offers a taxonomy of real and apparent deviations from rationality. The taxonomy is based on three axes of divides—whereas the axes are successive refinements. The outermost‐axis divide delineates “anxiety‐based choices” from “anxiety‐free choices.” Anxiety‐based choices are real deviations such as the Allais and Ellsberg paradoxes ...
Elias L. Khalil
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Facial Analysis for Plastic Surgery in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: A Comparative Evaluation of Multimodal Large Language Models. [PDF]
J Clin MedHaider SA +10 more
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