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Modelling Financial Incentives To Get Unemployed Back To Work
Boone, Jan; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
We model how unemployment benefit sanctions - benefit reductions that are imposed if unemployed do not comply with job … benefit sanctions are more effective in reducing unemployment than an across the board reduction in the replacement rate. …
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Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Monitoring and Sanctions
Boone, Jan; Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil; Ours, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
effort and benefit sanctions if observed search is deemed insufficient. We find that introducing monitoring and sanctions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005498018
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Experiments on Unemployment Benefit Sanctions and Job Search Behaviour
Boone, Jan; Sadrieh, Abdolkarim; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
This Paper presents the results of an experimental study on unemployment benefit sanctions. The experimental set …-up allows us to distinguish between the effects of benefit sanctions once they are imposed (the ex post effect) and the effects … that discourage the unemployed from risking benefit sanctions (the ex ante effect). We find that both effects matter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791743
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Skilled Immigration and Innovation: Evidence from Enrollment Fluctuations in U.S. Doctoral Programs
Maskus, Keith; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; Stuen, Eric T. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
We study the contribution of foreign science and engineering talent to the creation of new knowledge in the U.S. economy using panel data on 2300 science and engineering (S&E) departments at 100 large American universities from 1973 to 1998. We use macroeconomic shocks and policy changes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468708
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A Nation of Poets and Thinkers - Less so with Eastern Enlargement? Austria and Germany
Marin, Dalia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
Many people in the European Union fear that Eastern enlargement will lead to major job losses. More recently, these fears about job losses have extended to high skill labour and IT jobs. Using new firm-level data, this Paper examines whether these fears are justified for Austria and Germany -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124233
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Making Sense of the Soviet Trade Shock in Eastern Europe: A Framework and Some Estimates
Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992
East European countries have experienced sharp declines in real GDP since 1990. One of the reasons for this decline is the Soviet trade shock caused by the collapse of the CMEA and of traditional export markets in the Soviet Union. This paper is an attempt to quantify the magnitude of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136681
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Foreign Trade in Eastern Europe's Transition: Early Results
Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992
By the end of 1991, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland had achieved a substantial degree of openness to foreign trade. In all three countries, trade is now demonopolized and licensing and quotas play a very small role. Exchange controls have virtually disappeared for current-account...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136686
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Who is in Favour of Enlargement? Determinants of Support for EU Membership in the Candidate Countries Referenda
Doyle, Orla; Fidrmuc, Jan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
We analyse support for EU membership as expressed in voting patterns in the candidate countries’ referenda on EU membership, using regional referendum results and individual survey data on voting intentions. We find that favourable individual and regional characteristics are positively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666521
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Voice of the Diaspora: An Analysis of Migrant Voting Behaviour
Doyle, Orla; Fidrmuc, Jan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
This Paper utilizes a unique dataset on votes cast by Czech and Polish migrants in their recent national elections to investigate the impact of institutional, political and economic characteristics on migrants’ voting behaviour. The political preferences of migrants are strikingly different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666825
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Services Trade and Policy
Francois, Joseph; Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Since the mid-1980s a substantial body of research has taken shape on trade in services. Much of this is inspired by the WTO and regional trade agreements. However, an increasing number of papers focus on the impacts of unilateral services sector liberalization. The literature touches on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008502579