Equal Tax for Equal Alcohol? Beverage Types and Antisocial and Unlawful Behaviours*

Towards Equal Rights for Higher-kinded Types

Generics are a very popular feature of contemporary OO languages, such as Java, C# or Scala. Their support for genericity is lacking, however. The problem is that they only support abstracting over proper types, and not over generic types. This limitation makes it impossible to, e.g., define a precise interface for Iterable, a core abstraction in Scala’s collection API. We implemented “type con...

Equal pay for work of equal value.

A JOB evaluation exercise is being carried out in 20 UK trusts this month. It involves only 60 nurses and yet the results will help determine how you are paid for years to come.

On the efficiency of equal sacrifice income tax schedules ¬リニ

In an economy which primitives are exactly those in Mirrlees (1971), we investigate the efficiency of tax schedules derived under the equal sacrifice principle. For a given exogenous government consumption level we assess whether there is an alternative tax schedule that raises more revenue while delivering less utility to no one. For our preferred parametrizations, we find that inefficiency on...

Immigrants in the Netherlands: equal access for equal needs?

OBJECTIVE This paper examines whether equal utilisation of health care services for first generation immigrant groups has been achieved in the Netherlands. DESIGN Survey data were linked to an insurance register concerning people aged 16-64. Ethnic differences in the use of a broad range of health care services were examined in this group, with and without adjustment for health status and soc...

Equal Rights for Swampersons