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two sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to … Social Survey (ESS), the American General Social Survey (GSS), and the International Social Survey Program (ISSP). Estimation … indeed more religious than the populations in the receiving countries, both in Europe and in the United States; and (b) while …
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suggests that skilled immigration promotes economic equality in advanced economies under standard conditions. The context is …
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side demands votes and each demand enough votes to alone control a majority. The probability of a minority victory is … independent of the size of the minority and converges to one half, for any minority size, when the electorate is arbitrarily large …
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Economic theory is often abused in practical policy-making. There is frequently excessive focus on sophisticated theory at the expense of elementary theory; too much economic knowledge can sometimes be a dangerous thing. Too little attention is paid to the wider economic context, and to the...
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elasticity of money demand owe more to a faulty methodology than to the data. …
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Social preference research has fundamentally changed the way economists think about many important economic and social phenomena. However, the empirical foundation of social preferences is largely based on laboratory experiments with self-selected students as participants. This is potentially...
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We investigate possible racial discrimination in the context of discretionary parole release. We develop a rational … 1983 and 2003 in the U.S. We apply the outcome test methodology recently used to assess racial profiling in police search … minority and White prisoners become marginal from the perspective of their probability of parole violation. Parole boards …
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Housing survey, which allows for a detailed identification of the channels through which diversity operates. Differentiating …
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In this paper, we propose a job assignment model allowing for a gender difference in access to jobs. Males and females compete for the same job positions. They are primarily interested in the best-paid jobs. A structural relationship of the model can be used to empirically recover the...
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There is a well-established high quality literature on the role of networks, particularly ethnic networks, in international trade. Ethnic networks are a way of overcoming informal barriers (information costs, risk and uncertainty) to trade by building trust and substituting for the difficulty of...
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