Dismissals for Cause: The Difference That Just Eight Paragraphs Can Make

Dismissals for Cause: The Difference That Just Eight Paragraphs Can Make

This paper provides evidence about the effects of dismissals-for-cause requirements, a specific component of employment protection legislation that has received little attention despite its potential relevance. We study a quasi-natural experiment generated by a law introduced in Portugal in 1989: out of the 12 paragraphs in the law that dictated the costly procedure required for dismissals for ...

Tolerating vs. supporting research that destroys embryos: a difference that can make a moral difference.

Learning how to learn: eight lessons for impact evaluations that make a difference - ODI Background Notes

This Background Note outlines key lessons on impact evaluations, utilisation-focused evaluations and evidence-based policy. Drawing on recent and ongoing work by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), the Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action (ALNAP), the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) and others, it is aimed at researchers, p...

Endmarkers can Make a Difference

We show that the nonemptiness problem for two-way automata with only one endmarker over unary alphabets is complete for nondeterministic logarithmic space. This should be contrasted with the corresponding problem for two-way automata with two endmarkers, which is known to be NP-complete.

Can we make a difference?

Can we make a difference? If I had a pound for every time I have heard someone tell us that we can make a difference I think I could personally end world poverty. I have a copy of a cartoon in which someone says, ‘What difference can one person make?’ In the next frame two or three more speech bubbles have appeared asking the same question. In the final frame there are a plethora of similar spe...