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Labor market reforms and unemployment fluctuations
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Luca Bettarelli and others
Oxford Economic Papers, gpaf007, https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpaf007
Published: 21 March 2025
... is published and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/pages/standard-publication-reuse-rights ) Abstract This article examines the role of unemployment benefits (UBs) and employment protection legislation (EPL) reforms...
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From Connections to Merit: Anti-Corruption Reform and Occupational Mobility in China's Civil Service
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Geer Ang and others
The Economic Journal, ueaf011, https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueaf011
Published: 04 February 2025
... networks may drive this change. Furthermore, the campaign appears to have improved civil servants’ quality. Anti-Corruption Reforms Civil Service Occupational Mobility O RIGIN A L U N EDITED M AN U SCRIPT From Connections to Merit: Anti-Corruption Reform and Occupational Mobility in China s Civil Service...
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Utilisation of nursing home care before and after the 2015 Dutch national reform: an interrupted time series analysis
Janet L MacNeil Vroomen and others
Age and Ageing, Volume 54, Issue 2, February 2025, afaf018, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaf018
Published: 04 February 2025
...Janet L MacNeil Vroomen; Joost D Wammes; Bram Wouterse; Martin Smalbrugge; Terrence E Murphy 15 07 2024 25 11 2024 23 12 2024 Graphical Abstract Graphical Abstract long-term care reforms interrupted time series analysis nursing home admissions survival ageing-in-place older...
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Merit recruitment, professional advancement opportunities and prosocial rule-breaking among public servants in Greece
Alexandra Hennessy and others
Socio-Economic Review, mwae058, https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwae058
Published: 23 September 2024
... (N = 497) among a representative sample of Greek public servants and implemented a list experiment to gauge how pervasive PSRB is in Greece’s public sector. Greece is a particularly useful setting in which to study PSRB as the euro crisis created strong reform pressure. We find that public servants...
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Heterogeneous effects of increased availability of alcohol on hospitalization due to external causes. Quasi-experimental evidence from the introduction of Saturday opening at Swedish alcohol retail stores
Ylva B Almquist and others
American Journal of Epidemiology, kwae208, https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwae208
Published: 16 July 2024
... with the reform and the outcome. Our DID analysis was specified as a linear regression model for panel data and estimated by means of the xtdidregress command in Stata 17/SE. 23 Since the outcome is binary, the estimated model becomes a linear probability model. The reported DID estimates...
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Climate change, strict Pareto improvements in welfare and multilateral financial transfers
Christos Kotsogiannis and Alan Woodland
Oxford Economic Papers, Volume 77, Issue 1, January 2025, Pages 190–212, https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpae022
Published: 30 May 2024
... if a Generalized Hatta Normality Emissions Condition is violated. Numerical examples illustrate the financial transfer mechanism. Global emissions environmental externalities multilateral financial transfers Pareto-improving reforms H23 F18 Economic and Social Research Council 10.13039/501100000269 ES...
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Heterogeneous paths to stability
Edoardo Di Porto and Cristina Tealdi
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, Volume 187, Issue 4, October 2024, Pages 1037–1064, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrsssa/qnae019
Published: 14 March 2024
... job experience, who are hired on temporary contracts with different degrees of flexibility, thus allowing us to evaluate the scarring effect of temporary contract regulations. The paper is organized as follows. Section 2 describes the institutional background and the details of the reforms, while...
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Teaching schools to compete: the case of Swedish upper secondary education
Stefan Arora-Jonsson and Peter Edlund
Socio-Economic Review, Volume 22, Issue 3, July 2024, Pages 1451–1476, https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwad074
Published: 07 February 2024
... of competition. competition local government organizational theory public sector reforms Scandinavia welfare state H52 Public Economics: National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: Government Expenditures and Education I28 Health Education and Welfare: Education and Research Institutions...
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Developing the improved Community Health Fund in Tanzania: was it a fair process?
Peter Binyaruka and others
Health Policy and Planning, Volume 38, Issue Supplement_1, November 2023, Pages i83–i95, https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czad067
Published: 14 November 2023
... reform was exempt from following the mandatory legislative procedures, including processes for involving the public, for policy reforms in Tanzania. The Ministry of Health, leading the process, formed a technical taskforce to review evidence, draw lessons from pilots and develop plans for implementing...
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Knowledge–practice gap in healthcare payments: the role of policy capacity
Azad Singh Bali and M Ramesh
Policy and Society, Volume 42, Issue 3, September 2023, Pages 406–418, https://doi.org/10.1093/polsoc/puad019
Published: 01 September 2023
... ). In this section, we summarize common instruments used to pay healthcare providers and the challenges they pose in realizing the goals of payment reforms. There are two broad sets of instruments that are used to pay providers: retrospective and prospective. Under retrospective payment, the prime example of which...
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What drives major tax reform? Implications for taxing the rich
Martina Beretta and others
Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 39, Issue 3, Autumn 2023, Pages 617–629, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/grad028
Published: 18 August 2023
... major US and UK reforms. We then review theories of reform in the literature by defining the motivations and conditions for reform (section II). We discuss what constitutes major reform with a specific view on the motivations for economically beneficial major reform (section III). We then present three...
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Health and health system impacts of China’s comprehensive primary healthcare reforms: a systematic review
Chang Cai and others
Health Policy and Planning, Volume 38, Issue 9, November 2023, Pages 1064–1078, https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czad058
Published: 28 July 2023
... on single-component primary healthcare (PHC) interventions, and evidence from Asia is lacking. Comprehensive system-wide PHC reforms are limited to few low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), and there is a dearth of evaluations on their synergetic impacts. There is no synthesized understanding...
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Nutrition policy reforms to address the double burden of malnutrition in Zambia: a prospective policy analysis
Mulenga Mary Mukanu and others
Health Policy and Planning, Volume 38, Issue 8, October 2023, Pages 895–906, https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czad053
Published: 15 July 2023
... ; Reeve et al., 2021 ). Given that agenda setting is a critical first step in policy reforms, we applied Kingdon’s (1984) multiple streams theory as the overarching theoretical framework for this study. According to the multiple streams theory, policy change depends on factors in three...
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Psychosocial Professionals in Chilean Justice Institutions. Reflections Based on the Experiences and Practice of Psychologists and Social Workers
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Fabiola Miranda-Pérez and Carlos Andrade Guzmán
The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 53, Issue 5, July 2023, Pages 2804–2819, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcac247
Published: 29 December 2022
... reforms psychosocial professionals the psychosocial understanding of psychosocial National Agency for Research and Development 10.13039/100019783 11190123 With the implementation of the family and criminal justice reforms in Chile during the mid-2000s, the integration of permanent professionals...
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Italian subsidised crop insurance: What the role of policy changes
Fabio Gaetano Santeramo and others
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Q Open, Volume 3, Issue 3, 2023, qoac031, https://doi.org/10.1093/qopen/qoac031
Published: 25 November 2022
...Fabio Gaetano Santeramo; Ilaria Russo; Emilia Lamonaca In 2014, one year after the entry into force of the first reform, both the total insured acreage ( Fig. 2 , panel A) and the total insured value (Fig. 2 in the Supplementary material ) show an increase, whereas the average insured value per...
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Duration of Education and Back Pain: Lessons From English Schooling Reforms
Takaaki Ikeda and others
American Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 192, Issue 2, February 2023, Pages 195–204, https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwac168
Published: 26 September 2022
... quadratic terms for age and cohort trends. In addition, the reduced-form regression model that examined the association of schooling reforms with back pain was examined. causal inference educational attainment instrumental variable schooling reforms socioeconomic status 2SLS 2-stage least squares...
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Introducing the Revised and Updated Financial Reform Database
Sawa Omori
Journal of Financial Regulation, Volume 8, Issue 2, September 2022, Pages 230–240, https://doi.org/10.1093/jfr/fjac008
Published: 05 July 2022
... with the opportunity to visit the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 2013 to revise the Financial Reform Database. All errors in this article and in updating the Financial Reform Database are my own. This study was supported by the 2013 Abe Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council and the Japan Foundation...
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Structural Reforms and Labor Productivity Growth in Developing Countries: Intra or Inter-Reallocation Channel?
Maty Konte and others
The World Bank Economic Review, Volume 36, Issue 3, August 2022, Pages 646–669, https://doi.org/10.1093/wber/lhac002
Published: 22 March 2022
...Maty Konte; Wilfried A Kouamé; Emmanuel B Mensah In the literature, the link between reforms and productivity is indirect and often acts through specific channels. This section discusses some of these channels, particularly how trade reforms, product market reforms, and financial market reforms may...
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Health reforms and policy capacity: the Canadian experience
Jean-Louis Denis and others
Policy and Society, Volume 42, Issue 1, March 2023, Pages 64–89, https://doi.org/10.1093/polsoc/puac010
Published: 18 March 2022
...Jean-Louis Denis; Susan Usher; Johanne Préval Health reforms are defined as deliberate and significant policy changes to the structures and processes of publicly funded health systems with the objective of improving their functioning or performance (adapted from Pollitt & Bouckaert, 2017...
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The effect of China’s compulsory education reforms on physiological health in adulthood: a natural experiment
Xin Ye and others
Health Policy and Planning, Volume 37, Issue 3, March 2022, Pages 376–384, https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czab147
Published: 09 December 2021
... the risks can be reduced through policies aimed at increasing years of education. We utilized China’s compulsory education reforms as a unique natural experiment, which stipulates that primary and lower secondary education is mandatory and free for all school-age children. Using a regression discontinuity...