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The Limits of Labor Legislation Reforms: Rigidity, Growth, and Employment in Brazil (1995–2010)
Journal of Politics in Latin America, 2016 The literature addressing market dynamics typically assumes that reforming labor legislation has a direct impact on economic performance, the configuration of labor markets, and the strength of labor organizations.
Jean François Mayer
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Politicians: Be Killed or Survive [PDF]
In the course of history, a large number of politicians have been assassinated. Rational choice hypotheses are developed and tested using panel data covering more than 100 countries over a period of 20 years.
Bruno S. Frey, Benno Torgler
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Measuring Nutrition Security Using the Consumer Food Data System Datasets
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Nutrition security is an emerging concept lacking a consensus definition, conceptualization, or standardized measure. This perspectives manuscript synthesizes findings from two previously published analyses to assess the feasibility of using available measures of key dimensions of nutrition security from two Consumer Food Data System (CFDS ...
Vibha Bhargava +2 more
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Informing the Euthanasia Debate: Perceptions of Australian Politicians
, 2018 In the debate on euthanasia or assisted dying, many different arguments have been advanced either for or against legal reform in the academic literature, and much contemporary academic research seeks to engage with these arguments.
Purser, Kelly +5 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the impact of geographical indication (GI) certification on the export performance of Turkish agri‐food products by analyzing both trade volume and unit value dynamics. Drawing on monthly data from 2000 to 2024 across 22 GI‐certified products, the research employs product‐level regressions, fixed‐effects panel models ...
Ihlas Sovbetov, Muge Burcu Ozdemir
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The Commitment of Senior Civil Servants to Democratic Freedoms and Equality
Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences, 2012 In modern democracies, senior civil servants have outgrown their classic role of mere implementers of orders given by politicians. Both senior civil servants and politicians serve the same democratic state, and both are heirs to the democratic evolution.
Miro HACEK
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The Transparency of Politics and the Quality of Politicians [PDF]
In this paper, we analyze the relationship between the transparency of politics and the quality of politicians in a model of parties’ political recruitment.
Antonio Merlo, Andrea Mattozzi
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Why Didn't I Get a Payout? Understanding Farmer Choices, Index Insurance, and Basis Risk
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Index insurance, while heralded as a potential solution to alleviate poverty and food insecurity among agricultural households, has its own set of challenges, notably basis risk. Basis risk is the discrepancy between the insurance payout and losses incurred, posing a significant deterrent to the adoption of index insurance.
S. Lucille Blakeley +4 more
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Election cycles in MPs' outside interests? The UK House of Commons, 2005-2010 [PDF]
Politicians often implement popular changes in public policies prior to elections, with the aim of improving their Election Day outcome. This research note evaluates whether such electioneering carries over also into politicians' extra-parliamentary ...
Geys, Benny
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Politicians online! MEP communication strategies in the Internet era. EPIN Working Paper No. 29/September 2010 [PDF]
, 2010 Recent decades have witnessed a dramatic growth of internet-based communication. This phenomenon and its still partially unexplored potential have increasingly attracted the attention of a growing number of political entrepreneurs. This paper analyses to
Braghiroli, Stefano.
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