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Trespassing the Threshold of Relevance: Media Exposure and Opinion Polls of the Sweden Democrats, 2006-2010

Bevelander, Pieter; Hellström, Anders - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

of the media exposure on fluctuations in opinion polls for political parties; i.e. the media effect. In particular to … media with the results of the SD opinion polls as well as the opinion poll results of all the other parliamentary parties … the media effect is more important for the SD compared to the other parliamentary parties, similar in size. The media …

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What Does the Public Know about Economic Policy, and How Does It Know It?

Blinder, Alan S.; Krueger, Alan B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Public opinion influences politicians, and therefore influences public policy decisions. What are the roles of self-interest, knowledge, and ideology in public opinion formation? And how do people learn about economic issues? Using a new, specially-designed survey, we find that most respondents...

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The Struggle for Palestinian Hearts and Minds: Violence and Public Opinion in the Second Intifada

Jaeger, David A.; Klor, Esteban F.; Miaari, Sami H.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper examines how violence in the Second Intifada influences Palestinian public opinion. Using micro data from a series of opinion polls linked to data on fatalities, we find that Israeli violence against Palestinians leads them to support more radical factions and more radical attitudes...

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Did Growth and Reforms Increase Citizens' Support for the Transition?

Golinelli, Roberto; Rovelli, Riccardo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

How did post-communist transformations affect people's perceptions of their economic and political systems? We model a …

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Public Opinion on Immigration: Has the Recession Changed Minds?

Hatton, Timothy J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

It is widely believed that the current recession has soured public attitudes towards immigration. But most existing studies are cross sectional and can shed little light on the economy-wide forces that shift public opinion on immigration. In this paper I use the six rounds of the European Social...

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Have You Heard the News? How Real-Life Expectations React to Publicity

van der Wiel, Karen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

biased, it becomes policy-relevant to know how to influence individuals' expectations. Information in the media is likely to …

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Ranking the Schools: How Quality Information Affects School Choice in the Netherlands

Koning, Pierre; van der Wiel, Karen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper analyzes whether information on high school quality published by a national newspaper affects school choice in the Netherlands. For this purpose, we use both school level and individual student level data. First, we study the causal effect of quality scores on the influx of new high...

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Trust in Public Institutions over the Business Cycle

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We document that trust in public institutions – and particularly trust in banks, business and government – has declined over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in institutions. Cross-country comparisons reveal a clear...

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A Decade of Labour Market Reforms in the EU: Insights from the LABREF Database

Turrini, Alessandro; Koltay, Gabor; Pierini, Fabiana; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper analyses the determinants and impact of labour market reforms in the European Union over the period of 2000-2011. The source of information on reforms is the LABREF database developed in DG ECFIN of the European Commission in cooperation with the Economic Policy Committee of the...

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Labor Mobility in an Enlarged European Union

Kahanec, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

The 2004 and 2007 enlargements of the EU extended the freedom of movement to workers from the twelve new member states mainly from Central Eastern Europe. This study summarizes and comparatively evaluates what we know about mobility in an enlarged Europe to date. The pre-enlargement fears of...

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