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Seasonality in Smoking Behaviour: Re-evaluating the Effects of the 2005 Public Smoking Ban in Italy

Bono, Emilia Del; Grünberger, Klaus; Vuri, Daniela - CESifo - 2014

This paper investigates the impact of the public smoking ban which came into effect in Italy on January 2005 on individual smoking behaviour. Current empirical evidence supports the existence of a negative effect of the Italian ban on smoking prevalence and consumption in the general population....

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Do Ethnic Enclaves Impede Immigrants' Integration? Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Social-Interaction Approach

Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - CESifo - 2012

immigrants’ inter-ethnic contact networks and social activities, we are able to identify the causal effect of ethnic …It is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society … concentration on social integration. The exogenous placement of immigrants “switches off” observable and unobservable differences in …

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Immigration and Entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - CESifo - 2015

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This …

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International Migration, Transfers of Norms and Home Country Fertility

Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice - CESifo - 2008

This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries’ fertility norms and an incentive to acquire more...

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Labour Mobility and the Portability of Social Rights in the EU

d'Addio, Anna Cristina; Cavalleri, Maria Chiara - CESifo - 2013

The paper first discusses the main sources of concern for people in the perspective of professional mobility abroad as they result from the analysis of the Eurobarometer survey, wave 75.1 of 2011. Second, it tests whether portability of social security within Europe is a determinant of intra-EU...

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Smoking and Social Interaction

Poutvaara, Panu; Siemers, Lars-H. R. - CESifo - 2007

We study the social interaction of non-smokers and smokers as a sequential game, incorporating insights from social psychology and experimental economics into an economic model. Social norms affect human behavior such that non-smokers do not ask smokers to stop smoking and stay with them, even...

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Sources of Productivity Spillovers: Panel Data Evidence from China

Baltagi, Badi H.; Egger, Peter; Kesina, Michaela - CESifo - 2014

This paper assesses sources of productivity spillovers in China’s electric and electronic manufacturing industry using a rich panel data-set of 25,360 firms observed over the period 2004-2007. This industry is characterized by its important reliance on technology. In particular, the paper...

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Large Panel Data Models with Cross-Sectional Dependence: A Survey

Chudik, Alexander; Pesaran, M. Hashem - CESifo - 2013

This paper provides an overview of the recent literature on estimation and inference in large panel data models with cross-sectional dependence. It reviews panel data models with strictly exogenous regressors as well as dynamic models with weakly exogenous regressors. The paper begins with a...

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Chudik, Alexander; Pesaran, M. Hashem - CESifo - 2013

This paper extends the Common Correlated Effects (CCE) approach developed by Pesaran (2006) to heterogeneous panel data models with lagged dependent variable and/or weakly ex-ogenous regressors. We show that the CCE mean group estimator continues to be valid but the following two conditions must...

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Trade, Wages, and Profits

Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter; Kreickemeier, Udo - CESifo - 2012

This paper formulates a structural empirical model of heterogeneous firms whose workers exhibit fair-wage preferences, leading to a link between a firm’s operating profits and wages of workers employed by this firm. We estimate the parameters of the model in a data-set of five European...

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