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Stricter Enforcement May Increase Tax Evasion

Borck, Rainald - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002

This paper shows that stricter enforcement may increase tax evasion. Individuals vote on a linear income tax which is … used to finance lump sum transfers. Stricter enforcement may make redistributive taxation more attractive to the decisive …

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Combating Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism: A Survey

Haigner, Stefan; Schneider, Friedrich; Wakolbinger, Florian - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

Policy programs on anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) have largely called for preventive measures like keeping record of financial transactions and reporting suspicious ones. In this survey study, we analyze the extent of global money laundering and...

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Money Laundering and Financial Means of Organized Crime: Some Preliminary Empirical Findings

Schneider, Friedrich - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

After giving a short literature review, the paper tries a quantification of the volume of money laundering activities, with the help of a MIMIC estimation procedure for the years 1995 to 2006 for 20 highly developed OECD countries. The volume of laundered money was 273 billions USD in the year...

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Employment Protection Legislation in Russia: Regional Enforcement and Labour Market Outcomes

Gimpelson, V.; Kapeliushnikov, R.; Lukiyanova, A. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

plausible for developing and transition economies. But if compliance and enforcement varies widely across regions/cities or … actual enforcement regime shapes incentives and constraints. Most of the studies exploring EPL effects on labour market … performance implicitly assume that EPL compliance is near to complete and therefore all firms bear full adjustment costs incurred …

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The Determinants of Anti-trafficking Policies: Evidence from a New Index

Cho, Seo-Young; Dreher, Axel; Neumayer, Eric - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

-2010 period. We assess a country's level of compliance in the three main dimensions of anti-trafficking policies - prosecution …, protection and prevention. The results show that compliance with prosecution policy is highest, while governmental efforts to …. We employ the new indices to investigate what determines anti-trafficking policies. We find that compliance with anti …

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Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of immigrants' ethnic persistence and assimilation....

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The Cost of Climate Change to the German Fruit Vegetation Sector

Kemfert, Claudia; Kremers, Hans - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

This paper applies the concept of damage coefficients introduced in Houba and Kremers (2008) to provide an estimate of the cost of climate change - in particular the cost of changes in mean regional temperature and precipitation - to the fruit vegetation sector. We concentrate on the production...

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Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.

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Comparing the Determinants of Concern about Terrorism and Crime

Brück, Tilman; Müller, Cathérine - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

Both crime and terrorism impose costs onto society through the channels of fear and worry. Identifying and targeting groups which are especially affected by worries might be one way to reduce the total costs of these two types of insecurity. However, compared to the drivers of the fear of crime,...

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Legacy from the Transition?: Alcohol Consumption by Young Adults in Ukraine

Avdeenko, Alexandra; Bozzoli, Carlos; Brück, Tilman - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

The study analyses the effects of transition on the amount and patterns of alcohol consumption. We test the hypothesis of how far negative experiences induced by the collapse of the Soviet Union have led to drinking in the young generation of Ukrainians. We use data coming from the Ukrainian...

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