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A two-country model of high skill migration with public education

Naiditch, Claire; Vranceanu, Radu - HAL - 2013

This paper proposes a two-country model of migration in a transferable skill sector, where workers education is provided free of charge by governments. We study firstly the non-cooperative equilibrium where the poor country decides on the education level and the rich country decides on the...

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A consensus model of political decision-making

Swart, Harrie De; Eklund, Patrik; Rusinowska, Agnieszka - HAL - 2008

In this paper, a model of political consensus is introduced. Parties try to reach consensus in forming a government. A … government is deﬁned as a pair consisting of a winning coalition and a policy supported by this coalition, where a policy …. Parties may be advised to adjust their preferences, i.e., to change their evaluation concerning some government(s) or/and the …

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At stake with implementation: trials of explicitness in the description of the state

Muniesa, Fabian; Linhardt, Dominique - HAL - 2009

We develop the notion of "trials of explicitness" as a conceptual instrument for the study of the state from a pragmatist, sociological angle. We present results from an empirical case study on how state practitioners (i.e. actors in charge of expressing, evaluating, executing or reforming the...

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Work, jobs and well-being across the Millennium

Clark, Andrew E. - HAL - 2009

This paper uses repeated cross-section data ISSP data from 1989, 1997 and 2005 to consider movements in job quality. It is first underlined that not having a job when you want one is a major source of low well-being. Second, job values have remained fairly stable over time, although workers seem...

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Do Higher Childcare Subsidies Improve Parental Well-being? Evidence from Québec's Family Policies

Brodeur, Abel; Connolly, Marie - HAL - 2012

In this paper, we investigate the effect of a change in childcare subsidies on parental subjective well-being. Starting in 1997, the Canadian province of Québec implemented a generous program providing $5-a-day childcare to children under the age of 5. By 2007, the percentage of children...

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The value of diplomacy: Bilateral relations and immigrant well-being

Becchetti, Leonardo; Clark, Andrew E.; Ricco, Elena Giachin - HAL - 2011

This paper attempts to establish the value of good relationships between countries by considering their effect on a group of individuals who are arguably intimately affected by them: immigrants. We appeal to an index of conflict/cooperation which is calculated as an annual weighted sum of news...

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Unemployment as a social norm in Germany

Clark, Andrew E.; Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen - HAL - 2008

This paper investigates the relationship between the subjective well-being of both the employed and unemployed and regional unemployment rates. While employed men suffer from regional unemployment, unemployed men are significantly less negatively affected. This is consistent with a social-norm...

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Let us pray: religious interactions in life satisfaction

Clark, Andrew E.; Lelkes, Orsolya - HAL - 2009

We use recent pooled survey data on 90 000 individuals in 26 European countries to examine religious spillover effects on life satisfaction. Own religious behaviour is positively correlated with individual life satisfaction. More unusually, average religiosity in the region also has a positive...

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Back to baseline in Britain: Adaptation in the BHPS

Clark, Andrew E.; Georgellis, Yannis - HAL - 2010

We look for evidence of adaptation of well-being to major life events in sixteen waves of British panel data. We find that, with the exception of unemployment, adaptation to other life events including marriage, divorce, birth of a child and widowhood is rapid and complete. These findings are...

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A note on unhappiness and unemployment duration

Clark, Andrew E. - HAL - 2006

Although it is now widely-accepted that unemployment is associated with sharply lower levels of individual well-being, relatively little is known about how this effect depends on unemployment duration. Data from three large-scale European panels is used to shed light on this issue; these data...

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