by editor | Mar 8, 2019 | Top Page Links
Italy’s introduction of gender quotas for corporate boards produced the expected increase in female representation on boards, but not the hoped-for “spillover” effect in terms of women’s representation of the top ranks of executives at these...
by editor | Mar 8, 2019 | Top Page Links
A new discussion paper by Ernest Boffy-Ramirez at the IZA, a German trade union-backed think tank, shows that increases in minimum wages were not correlated with higher unemployment in four U.S. states that raised...
by editor | Mar 8, 2019 | Top Page Links
Paternity leave and paid benefits actually allow new fathers to turn a profit in Slovakia, according to Radovan Ďurana at INESS. He argues this shows a social insurance system fundamentally out of whack (original in Slovakian). ...
by editor | Mar 8, 2019 | Top Page Links
A new report from the IEA notes the rise of state-funded anti-market advocacy groups across the EU, Wales and Scotland. England is the only place where state funding for anti-market groups is decreasing.Full details...
by editor | Mar 8, 2019 | Top Page Links
The Institute for Public Policy Research, self-proclaimed the UK’s leading progressive think tank, proposes a “radical but necessary” reform to the system governing the residential rental marketplace. Suggestions span landlord tax reform,...
