{"title":"תמונת מצב: התפתחויות ושינויים בהעסקת עובדים פלסטינים בישראל Situation Report - Developments and Reform in the Employment Conditions of Palestinians in Israel","authors":"Maayan Niezna, Michal Tadjer","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3903119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3903119","url":null,"abstract":"תקציר בעברית: הדוח עוסק בשלושה נושאים מרכזיים: ראשית, הרפורמה בהעסקת עובדי בניין פלסטינים בישראל, שנכנסה לתוקף בסוף שנת 2020. שנית, השפעת מגיפת הקורונה על העובדים, שהפכו מעובדים יוממים לעובדים עונתיים, בלא תשומת לב לזכויותיהם הבסיסיות לבריאות, מגורים בטוחים וראויים וזמן פנוי. לבסוף, הפתחויות בהליכים משפטיים הנוגעים לזכויות כלכליות-חברתיות, כגון תשלום פנסיה ודמי מחלה English Abstract: This report covers three main issues. First, the work permit reform, which went into effect in December 2020, shifts Israel’s employment of Palestinians away from employer-designated permits to sector-designated permits. This reform has the potential to end the practice of binding workers to employers and the black-market trade in work permits resulting in exorbitant brokerage fees paid by Palestinian workers. Second, the impact of COVID-19 on workers. Workers' status was changed overnight from commuters to seasonal workers, and while they stayed in Israel for weeks at a time, little attention was paid to their basic rights to safe housing, health and unsupervised leisure time. Third, developments in legal proceedings concerning socio-economic rights, such as sick-pay and pensions. Using quantitative surveys, in-depth interviews and documentary analysis, the report considers these major changes, their impact on the workers, and what other measures are still required.","PeriodicalId":208134,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Other Domestic Development Strategies (Topic)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124066376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Мировой опыт формирования системы косвенных мер поддержки малого и среднего предпринимательства (World Experience in the Formation of a System of Indirect Measures To Support Small and Medium-Sized Businesses)","authors":"V. Barinova, Alexander Krasnoselskikh, Y. Tsareva","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3853565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3853565","url":null,"abstract":"<b>Russian abstract:</b> Косвенные меры важны для формирования устойчивых предпринимательских экосистем. При этом, в отличие от прямых финансовых мер, они зачастую требуют меньших бюджетных затрат, охватывают большее число предпринимателей и в меньшей степени нарушают рыночную конкуренцию. Косвенные меры поддержки значительно более разнообразны, чем прямые. <br><br><b>English abstract:</b> Indirect measures are essential for building sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems. At the same time, in contrast to direct financial measures, they often require less budgetary costs, cover a larger number of entrepreneurs and to a lesser extent disrupt market competition. Indirect support measures are much more diverse than direct ones.","PeriodicalId":208134,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Other Domestic Development Strategies (Topic)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116477396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Togo - 2020 : Politique intérieure, affaires étrangères, le développement socio-économique (Togo 2020 Domestic Politics, Foreign Affairs, Socio-Economic Development)","authors":"Dirk Kohnert","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3761059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3761059","url":null,"abstract":"<b>French Abstract:</b> Les réformes constitutionnelles et institutionnelles controversées votées en mai 2019 au Parlement ont ouvert la voie au président Gnassingbé pour se présenter pour un quatrième et un cinquième mandat parce que la loi ne s'applique pas rétroactivement. En février 2020, le président a remporté à nouveau les élections présidentielles disputées et a ainsi consolidé son pouvoir, assisté par l'armée fidèle et les services de sécurité. Le déclenchement de l'épidémie de Corona au Togo en mars et la récession économique qui a suivi a peut-être contribué à limiter les protestations populaires contre le régime de Gnassingbé. Le bilan du gouvernement en matière de droits de l'homme s'est amélioré, mais reste médiocre. Pourtant, la communauté internationale a suivi une approche de «laissez-faire» dans l'intérêt de la stabilité régionale. L'économie est entrée en récession en raison des effets négatifs économiques mondiaux de la crise corona. L'indice de démocratie de l'Economic Intelligence Unit, à Londres, classait toujours le Togo comme un «régime autoritaire».<br><br><b>German Abstract:</b> Umstrittene verfassungsrechtliche und institutionelle Reformen, die im Mai 2019 im Parlament verabschiedet wurden, eröffneten Präsident Gnassingbé den Weg für eine vierte und fünfte Amtszeit, da das Gesetz nicht rückwirkend gilt. Im Februar 2020 gewann der Präsident erneut die umstrittenen Präsidentschaftswahlen und festigte damit seine Macht, unterstützt von der loyalen Armee und den Sicherheitsdiensten. Der Ausbruch der Corona-Epidemie in Togo im März und die anschließende wirtschaftliche Rezession trugen dazu bei, den Protest der Bevölkerung gegen das Gnassingbé-Regime zu begrenzen. Die Menschenrechtsbilanz der Regierung hat sich verbessert, bleibt aber defizitär. Die internationale Gemeinschaft verfolgte trotzdem im Interesse der regionalen Stabilität einen Laissez-Faire-Ansatz. Die Wirtschaft geriet aufgrund der weltweiten wirtschaftlichen negativen Auswirkungen der Coronakrise in eine Rezession. Der Demokratieindex der Economic Intelligence Unit in London bewertete Togo weiterhin als \"autoritäres Regime\".<br><br><b>English Abstract:</b> Controversial constitutional and institutional reforms voted in May 2019 in parliament opened the way for President Gnassingbé to stand for a fourth and fifth term because the law does not apply retroactively. In February 2020, the President won again the disputed presidential elections and thus consolidated his power, assisted by the loyal army and security services. The outbreak of the Corona epidemic in Togo in March and the subsequent economic recession may have contributed to limit popular protest against the Gnassingbé regime. The human rights record of the government has improved, but remains poor. Yet, the international community followed a 'laissez faire' approach in the interests of regional stability. The economy dropped into recession due to the worldwide economic negative effects of the corona-","PeriodicalId":208134,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Other Domestic Development Strategies (Topic)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128575337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Economic Recovery Through Interstate Cannabis Commerce","authors":"Nicholas Sgroi","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.3800143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.3800143","url":null,"abstract":"America is currently experiencing an economic recession plagued with high unemployment and low economic output. The Alliance for Sensible Markets and other proponents of cannabis legalization think that the cannabis industry can be extremely helpful in recovery through an interstate cannabis commerce plan. This plan could potentially pump in immediate waves of investment and create thousands of jobs. The plan lays out two steps: (1) have at least two states enter into an interstate compact for cannabis and (2) obtain congressional approval for the interstate compact. This article will look at the trends of a few states; speak about the benefits of the plan; touch on the consequences; and talk about the chances of this plan working, especially with the 2020 election approaching. Additionally, the article will tackle questions that face the plan if those two steps are met, such as questions on banking laws, tax laws, and whether psychoactive cannabis will be regulated as a commodity crop or if states will maintain their own existing regulatory framework.","PeriodicalId":208134,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Other Domestic Development Strategies (Topic)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114735355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SOEs Reform and Capital Efficiency in China: A Structural Analysis","authors":"Le Tang","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3786396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3786396","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the effect of state-owned enterprises reform, a policy phrased as “grasping the large, letting the small go” on firms' capital efficiency in Chinese industrial firms. First, we present several styled facts on investment rates in state and private industrial firms from 1998-2007. Then a dynamic programming problem is proposed and key structural parameters are recovered through simulated moment matching method. The estimated dynamic model is able to replicate the styled facts from actual data. Our quantitative analysis shows that the conversion of state firms into private ones reduces capital adjustment costs, in particularly, the quadratic adjustment cost. Thus, the conversion of state firms leads to increased capital efficiency. Based on the structural estimations, we find that state and private firms' output would increase about 2% if the capital adjustment costs in state firms are lowered to the same level in private firms.","PeriodicalId":208134,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Other Domestic Development Strategies (Topic)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127216087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"РАЗРАБОТКА ПОДХОДА К ПОСТРОЕНИЮ ДИНАМИЧЕСКОЙ ИМИТАЦИОННОЙ ПРОСТРАНСТВЕННОЙ МОДЕЛИ РОССИЙСКОЙ ЭКОНОМИКИ (Development of An Approach to the Construction of a Dynamic Simulation Spatial Model of the Russian Economy)","authors":"Kirill Rostislav, Yuriy Ponomarev, K. Borzykh","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3860752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3860752","url":null,"abstract":"<b>Russian Abstract:</b> В настоящее время в России в недостаточной мере проработано научно-методическое обоснование целеполагания основных стратегических документов, определяющих пространственное развитие Российской Федерации.<br><br><b>English Abstract:</b> Currently, in Russia, the scientific and methodological substantiation of the goal-setting of the main strategic documents has been insufficiently worked out.","PeriodicalId":208134,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Other Domestic Development Strategies (Topic)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134069939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ПОДХОДЫ К АНАЛИЗУ АЛЛОКАЦИИ РЕСУРСОВ В РОССИЙСКОЙ ЭКОНОМИКЕ И ЕЕ ВЗАИМОСВЯЗИ С ПРОИЗВОДИТЕЛЬНОСТЬЮ (Approaches to Analysis of Resource Allocation in the Russian Economy and Its Relationship With Productivity)","authors":"Alexandra Zhemkova","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3860103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3860103","url":null,"abstract":"<b>Russian Abstract:</b> В работе предложен подход к оценке эффективности аллокации ресурсов в российской экономике.<br><br><b>English Abstract:</b> The paper proposes an approach to assessing the efficiency of resource allocation in the Russian economy.","PeriodicalId":208134,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Other Domestic Development Strategies (Topic)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121753964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ФАКТОРЫ ИНТЕНСИФИКАЦИИ МЕЖРЕГИОНАЛЬНОГО ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКОГО ВЗАИМОДЕЙСТВИЯ И ИХ ВОЗДЕЙСТВИЕ НА ПРОСТРАНСТВЕННУЮ ОРГАНИЗАЦИЮ ЭКОНОМИКИ РОССИИ (Factors of Intensification of Interregional Economic Interaction and Their Impact on the Spatial Organization of the Russian Economy)","authors":"A. Kotov","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3860753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3860753","url":null,"abstract":"<b>Russian Abstract:</b> Основной целью исследования является разработка аналитического инструментария (матрицы интенсивности взаимодействий) для моделирования различных вариантов пространственного развития России как взаимосвязанной системы регионов. <br><br><b>English Abstract:</b> The main goal of the study is to develop analytical tools (matrix of interaction intensity) for modeling various options for the spatial development of Russia as an interconnected system of regions.","PeriodicalId":208134,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Other Domestic Development Strategies (Topic)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131183026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Подходы к разработке комплексной модели взаимосвязей финансового сектора и социально-экономической системы Российской Федерации (Approaches to the Development of a Comprehensive Model of the Relationship between the Financial Sector and the Socio-Economic System of the Russian Federation)","authors":"Yury Danilov, D. Pivovarov, I. Davydov","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3860275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3860275","url":null,"abstract":"<b>Russian Abstract:</b> В работе исследуются проблемы моделирования системы взаимосвязей финансового сектора Российской Федерации.<br><br><b>Russian Abstract:</b> The paper investigates the problems of modeling the system of interconnections of the financial sector of the Russian Federation.<br>","PeriodicalId":208134,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Other Domestic Development Strategies (Topic)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129588625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Challenges for Youth Employment in Transition Countries - With Special Treatment Kosovo","authors":"Fatmir Halili","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3739739","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3739739","url":null,"abstract":"Unemployment among young people is one of the challenges that continues to face every country without distinction, especially countries in transition. In the case of Kosovo, the challenges have been even greater, given the fact that many processes are intertwined, such as state building, changing the system from a centralized one to a market economy, developing democracy, etc. Young people in Kosovo continue to see no prospects for the future of the country, precisely because of the difficulties in finding a job. Undoubtedly, many factors have had an impact on the existence of high levels of unemployment, especially the protracted transition that has taken place as a result of the non-resolution of the final status of citizenship for a long time. In addition, the state of many years of occupation and war, have left long-term consequences on the overall development of Kosovo, especially on the economic development of the country.<br><br>This paper reflects some of the challenges that young people face in employment in transition countries, with a special treatment in the Republic of Kosovo.<br>","PeriodicalId":208134,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Other Domestic Development Strategies (Topic)","volume":"109 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127071306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}