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Implicit Promises and the Timing of Defined‐Benefit Pension Plan Freezes

Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Firms time defined‐benefit (DB) plan freezes after CEO turnovers to protect CEO retirement benefits from cost cuts affecting the wider workforce. We document a significant increase in voluntary CEO turnovers just before the freeze, without notable post‐freeze changes.
Zacharias Petrou, Adamos Vlittis
wiley   +1 more source

Taxpayer governmentality

, 2019
This dissertation traces how ‘the taxpayer’ is assembled as a subject for political action on the state and First Nations governments. Theoretically, the dissertation draws on an analytics of governmentality which focuses on the multiplicity of non-state elements of governing.
openaire   +1 more source

Translating sanctuary: Politics of solidarity in a bilingual and plurinational context

The Geographical Journal, EarlyView.
Short Abstract The paper examines the significance of translating sanctuary in an officially bilingual (and multilingual in practice) national polity. By examining the different meanings of the translation of 'sanctuary' into ‘lloches’ and ‘noddfa’ in Welsh, we outline the different openings for more nuanced understandings of ‘host’/‘guest’ relations ...
Catrin Wyn Edwards, Rhys Dafydd Jones
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring and Explaining the Use and Proliferation of Whole Life Orders in England and Wales

The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Whole life orders (WLOs) represent the power of the state to inflict harm at its most extreme, with such sentences being found to be in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights. However, very little research has endeavoured to understand the use of WLOs.
Hannah Gilman, Jake Phillips
wiley   +1 more source

Taxation of fisheries in Kenya: neither improving management nor raising revenue? [PDF]

World Dev Perspect
Occhiali G, Okello O.
europepmc   +1 more source

Exploring the Role of Ideology and Sectoral Power for Trade Unions' Social Partnership Choices in Liberal Market Economies

Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While scholars have often debated the outcomes of partnership strategy, they have rarely studied the conditions in which trade unions opt to pursue partnerships, especially social partnerships in liberal market economies (‘LMEs’). By comparing five trade unions' social partnership responses in the US‐American and English healthcare systems ...
Nick Krachler
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond the bubble: reflections on a career in academic medicine with an obligation to look beyond. [PDF]

J Appl Clin Med Phys
Solberg TD.
europepmc   +1 more source

Does CAP spending reflect taxpayer preferences? An analysis of expenditures for public goods and income redistribution in relation to preference indicators

, 2017
Felix Schläpfer, Ivo Baur, Schläpfer, Felix, Baur, Ivo   +3 more
openalex   +2 more sources

The Labor Market Effects of Occupational Licensing in the Public Sector

Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the United States, occupational licensing is about twice as prevalent in the public sector as in the private sector. However, the influence of occupational regulation for public sector workers and how it compares with that of private sector workers has not been analyzed in detail.
Morris M. Kleiner, Wenchen Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Did the 2001 Tax Rebate Stimulate Spending? Evidence from Taxpayer Surveys

, 2002
Matthew D. Shapiro, Joel Slemrod
openalex   +1 more source