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Do Financial Incentives for Firms Promote Employment of Disabled Workers? A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Lalive, Rafael; Wuellrich, Jean-Philippe; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
We study the impact of employment quota on firms' demand for disabled workers. The Austrian Disabled Persons Employment Act (DPEA) requires firms to provide at least one job to a disabled worker per 25 non-disabled workers, a rule which is strictly enforced by non-compliance taxation. We find...
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An Expert Stakeholder’s View on European Integration Challenges
Constant, Amelie; Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
; the inner nature of discrimination, negative attitudes and internal barriers; as well as the ethnic minorities’ desires … that ethnic minorities do want to change their situation, especially in terms of employment, education, housing and … behavior towards ethnic minorities as well as institutional barriers, such as citizenship or legal restrictions, seem to …
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Affirmative Action and Efficiency in Education
De Fraja, Gianni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
This Paper studies the optimal education policy in the presence of different groups of households, with groups differing in the distribution of the ability to benefit from education. The main result is that the high ability individuals from groups with relatively few high ability individuals...
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The Perception of Foreigners and Jews in Germany - A Structural Analysis of a Large Opinion Survey
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
unobserved attitude towards minorities, which drives the distribution of answers by native respondents. This latent variable in …
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Circular Migration: Counts of Exits and Years Away from the Host Country
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
The economic literature has largely overlooked the importance of repeat and circular migration. The paper studies this behaviour by analyzing the number of exits and the total number of years away from the host country using count data models and panel data from Germany. More than 60% of...
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Unilingual versus Bilingual Education System: A Political Economy Analysis
Ortega, Javier; Tangeraas, Thomas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
We define an economy composed of two language groups. Value is created through bilateral trade between individuals who can speak the same language. The value of trade increases in each participant's level of education. We compare a bilingual education system, under which the individuals who take...
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Racial and Economic Factors in Attitudes to Immigration
Dustmann, Christian; Preston, Ian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
Hostility towards minorities may sometimes have economic rather than racial motives. Labour market fears, or concerns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656173
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Circular Movements and Time Away From the Host Country
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
The economic literature has largely overlooked the importance of repeat migration. This Paper studies repeat or circular migration as it is manifested by the frequency of exits of migrants living in Germany, and by the number of years away from the host country using count data models. More than...
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College Diversity and Investment Incentives
Gall, Thomas; Legros, Patrick; Newman, Andrew - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
This paper studies the aggregate economic effects of diversity policies such as affirmative action in college admission. If agents are constrained in the side payments they can make, the free market allocation displays excessive segregation relative to the first-best. Affirmative action policies...
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Unintended Effects of Anonymous Resumes
Behaghel, Luc; Crépon, Bruno; Le Barbanchon, Thomas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We evaluate an experimental program in which the French public employment service anonymized resumes for firms that were hiring. Firms were free to participate or not; participating firms were then randomly assigned to receive either anonymous resumes or name-bearing ones. We find that...
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