Grain marketing and National Competition Policy: reform or reaction? [PDF]
Grain marketing arrangements in Australia have been controversial for many years. Following an account of the historical background to grain marketing, this article concentrates on more recent debates.
Watson, Alistair S.
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Two means two, but must does not mean must:an analysis of recent decisions on the conditions for parental orders in surrogacy [PDF]
, 2018 This article examines the High Court decisions in Re Z (A Child) (Surrogate Father: Parental Order) [2017] 1 FLR 472 and Re X (A Child) (Parental Order: Time Limit) [2015] 1 FLR 349, which concerned two of the conditions for the granting of ‘parental ...
Brown, Alan
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The Rise in Female Employment and the Role of Tax Incentives - An Empirical Analysis of the Swedish Individual Tax Reform of 1971 [PDF]
Sweden reached the 2007 OECD average level of female labor force participation already in 1974. Before, but not after, 1971 the average tax rate facing the housewife was a function of the income of her husband.
Håkan Selin
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, 2014 Congress and the Executive Branch are poised to take up the issue of FISA reform in 2014. What has been missing from the discussion is a comprehensive view of ways in which reform could be given effect—i.e., a taxonomy of potential options.
Donohue, Laura K.
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Principles, Pragmatism, and Politics: The Evolution of Washington State’s Sentencing Guidelines [PDF]
, 2013 Although the U.S. Federal Sentencing Guidelines have received much attention (and criticism), we do well to remember that the United States is a federal system, and that each of the fifty states has its own sentencing rules and procedures. Today, roughly
Stith, Kate
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A Natural Experiment on Sick Pay Cuts, Sickness Absence, and Labor Costs [PDF]
This study estimates the reform effects of a reduction in statutory sick pay levels on various outcome dimensions. A federal law reduced the legal obligation of German employers to provide 100 percent continued wages for up to six weeks per sickness ...
Martin Karlsson, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
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The Corporate Income Tax System: Overview and Options for Reform [PDF]
, 2014 The corporate income tax system has been a focus of many recent debates about tax reform and the economy. Many economists and policy makers argue that reform of the corporate income tax system is needed, although a variety of rationales on why and how ...
Keightley, Mark P
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Partnership law in the twenty-first century [PDF]
, 2001 Discusses reforms to partnership law that have been proposed by the Law Commission and the Scottish Law Commission in their 'Partnership Law: a Joint Consultation Paper', and considers whether the reforms are necessary or not and what effect they are ...
Deards, E
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Permanent Legal Immigration to the United States: Policy Overview [PDF]
, 2014 Four major principles currently underlie U.S. policy on legal permanent immigration: the reunification of families, the admission of immigrants with needed skills, the protection of refugees, and the diversity of admissions by country of origin.
Kandel, William A
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Reform and backlash to reform : economic effects of ageing and retirement policy [PDF]
Using a stochastic general equilibrium model with overlapping generations, this paper studies (i) the effects on both extensive and intensive labor supply responses to changes in fertility rates, and (ii) the potential of a retirement reform to mitigate ...
Jensen, Svend E. Hougaard +1 more
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