infonet-economy

In this paper it is asked whether it is meaningful to state a ‘right to work' as a basic human right to be written down in the constitution, for example, whether working time should generally be reduced, and whether those who do not have (or find) a job should get a guaranteed minimal income. All three demands have to be rejected, at least in the radical form in which they are...

Record of proceedings - On 2 June 2009, academic experts and practitioners from competition authorities from all over the world gathered at the IDRC pre-ICN forum to share experiences and discuss ways of reinstating competition principles in current circumstances. The three Sessions were structured as follows: (i) competition policy in a crisis, (ii) competition...

Health economists have studied the determinants of the expected value of health status as a function of medical and nonmedical inputs, often finding small marginal effects of the former. This paper argues that both types of input have an additional benefit, viz. a reduced variability of health status. Using OECD health data for 24 countries between 1960 and 2004, medical and...