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Powerhouse Kjørbo. Evaluation of construction process and early use phase [PDF]
The financial system is a complex part of every country which governs its entire economic operations. It is comprised of many different units which are often intertwined. Financial institutions are a part of the financial system.
Throndsen, William +2 more
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Income and Social Supports: An Inclusive Systems‐Based Approach to Cash Transfer Program Design
Abstract This article presents a systems‐based framework for the inclusive design of cash transfer programs in Canada. Grounded in the goal of enhancing inclusion through an intersectional lens, the framework integrates insights from policy design, empirical economics, and systems thinking.
Gillian Petit, Lindsay Tedds
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Environmentally adjusted productivity growth and shadow prices for dairy farms
Abstract We estimate the environmentally adjusted productivity growth and shadow price for Ontario dairy farms. We use an input‐oriented directional distance function and farm‐level data from 2000 to 2020. First, we find that while GHG emissions per cow increase with higher milk yields, emission intensity decreases as milk yield per cow increases.
Bibek Dahal +2 more
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Revealed preference and self-insurance - Can we learn from the self-employed in Chile? [PDF]
Financial sector development is a critical area of effective social protection policy. A well-regulated financial sector can complement government efforts to keep households from falling into poverty - by supplying the instruments needed to pool risks ...
Barr, Abigail, Packard, Truman
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Idiosyncratic asset return and wage risk of US households
Abstract This paper documents the degree of idiosyncratic asset return heterogeneity, serial correlation, and correlation with wage heterogeneity for US households. Novel panel‐data measurements for returns on household assets are proposed. Sizable transitory idiosyncratic return heterogeneity is documented to exist concurrently with permanent ...
Stephen Snudden
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A Blue Print For Germany’s Pension Reform [PDF]
Germany relies almost exclusively on a public pay-as-you-go pension system for old-age in-come provision. This mandatory “retirement insurance” has become under severe pressure, mainly from population aging and from incentive effects that have reduced ...
Axel Börsch-Supan
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Abstract We build an endogenous growth model that distinguishes productive and welfare government expenditures and embeds fiscal externalities. The model yields three testable hypotheses: (i) productive expenditure raises growth (Barro effect); (ii) productive expenditure generates cross‐country productivity spillovers; (iii) government expenditure ...
Xiaodong Chen, Haoming Mi, Peng Zhou
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Social Security Programs Throughout the World: The Americas, 2011 [PDF]
[Excerpt] This fourth issue in the current four-volume series of Social Security Programs Throughout the World reports on the countries of the Americas.
International Social Security Association +1 more
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Global shocks and the debt‐growth nexus
Abstract This paper re‐examines the relationship between debt and growth with and without the influence of global shocks for a panel of 22 economies. The analysis introduces an approach that accounts for the complexity of global factors and estimates the debt‐to‐growth and growth‐to‐debt nexus for household, corporate, and public debt from a purely ...
Fabrizio Casalin +2 more
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Options for pension reform in Tunisia [PDF]
Tunisia's pension system provides old age, survivorship, and disability benefits to retired and disabled workers and their dependents. It is a partially funded system based on solidarity between generations.
Vittas, Dimitri
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