Theoretical work in the past decades has argued that the increasing concentration of ownership by institutional investors may lead to decreased competition between commonly owned companies, resulting in inefficient market ...

Economic voting is a well-established mechanism in which people make their voting decisions primarily on economic conditions such as household income or a nation’s economic environment. Despite the long history and the ...

This Master’s Thesis tries to explain and analyze a phenomenon that affects workers worldwide, the Wage Theft; which can be defined as the denial of wages or other worker’s rights rightfully owned by an employee. This ...

Productivity growth is an understudied part of the macro-economic impact of employment protection legislation (EPL), which usually focuses on the impact on employment. This thesis studies the influence of EPL on productivity ...

This research studies the effect of tobacco taxation and size regulation of health warning labels of tobacco packages on tobacco consumption. Studies such as Chaloupka (1999) state that tobacco taxation is the most effective ...

In a time of increasing immigration and ethnic diversity, society is put under pressure. A recent report by the Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy (2018) has shown that ethnic diversity is not only greater than ...

The most recent financial crisis showed the great diversity in the flexibility of labour markets across the OECD countries. In some countries, unemployment rates doubled, while the unemployment rates did not change in other ...

A high global urbanization rate appears to coexist with increasing unsustainability. This paper investigates the effects of global urbanization on sustainable development. The study finds no direct effect of urbanization ...