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Democratic systems are built, with good reason, on majoritarian principles, but their legitimacy requires the protection of strongly held minority preferences. The challenge is to do so while treating every voter equally and preserving aggregate welfare. One possible solution is storable votes:...
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characteristics. Typically, decentralization should empower minorities which are small at the national level, while representing a … at the regional level for local minorities not being harmed by the decentralization process. …
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could play a minor effect in immigrants' decision to retire. Using detailed data on immigrants living in France collected in …
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We present evidence indicating that immigrants and especially those from the Maghreb/Middle-East give first names to …
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La question de l'insertion sur le marché du travail des immigrants est aujourd'hui devenue essentielle. Les dispositifs … sortie d'un épisode de non-emploi de ces immigrants. Nos résultats montrent que les immigrés forment un groupe hétérogène du … immigrants peu qualifiés. …
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empirically explain the location choice of immigrants at municipality level. Speci cally, we aim at separating the network ef … spatial repartition of immigrants in Belgium is determined by both network eff ects and local characteristics. The …
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, Christian immigrants and Muslim immigrants. We develop an econometric specification for educational attainment which shows that … advantage for daughters. We find higher intergenerational correlation for Christian natives than for Muslims immigrants, but an … intermediate level for Christian immigrants. For the three communities, we show an advantage for mother education; however this …
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In this paper, we propose a job assignment model allowing for a gender difference in access to jobs. Males and females compete for the same job positions. They are primarily interested in the best-paid jobs. A structural relationship of the model can be used to empirically recover the...
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Une étude de l'histoire de la discrimination dans l'assurance montre que les données actuarielles sont rarement … suffisantes pour justifier dans le public cette discrimination. On étudie en particulier la discrimination à l'égard des femmes à …'acceptabilité sociale de la discrimination dans les assurances. …
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This paper focuses on the interaction between gender discrimination and household decisions. It develops a general … are assumed to decrease the time that parents spend on their children. The model shows that gender discrimination may … gender discrimination. An increase in the discrimination level implies a related decrease in fertility, women's participation …
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