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Leaders as Role Models for the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods
Gächter, Simon; Renner, Elke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field evidence suggests that people's behavior in domains like charitable giving, tax evasion, corporate culture and corruption is influenced by leaders (CEOs, politicians) and beliefs...
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Democracy, Dictatorship and the Cultural Transmission of Political Values
Ticchi, Davide; Verdier, Thierry; Vindigni, Andrea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We develop a theory of endogenous regimes transitions (with a focus on democratic consolidation), which emphasizes the role of political culture and of its interaction with political institutions. Political culture reflects the extent of individual commitment across citizens to defend democracy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010667865
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Making Sense of Bolkestein-Bashing: Trade Liberalization under Segmented Labor Markets
Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Trade liberalization is often met with sharp opposition. Recent examples include the so-called "Bolkestein" directive, which allows service providers from a given EU member to temporarily work in another member country. One way to view such a reform is that it simply widens the range of goods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761656
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The Role of Association Agreements within European Union Enlargement to Central and Eastern European Countries
Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert; Sova, Ana Maria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
The main goal of regionalization is the creation of free trade areas and the guarantee for countries to accede to a widened market. Many studies dealing with the effects of regional free trade agreements on trade flows already exist in the economic literature and the explosion in the number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762334
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On the Bilateral Trade Effects of Free Trade Agreements between the EU-15 and the CEEC-4 Countries
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Ana … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
The expansion of regionalism has spawned an extensive theoretical literature analysing the effects of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) on trade flows. In this paper we focus on FTAs (also called European agreements) between the European Union (EU-15) and the Central and Eastern European countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762353
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Emigration and Wages: The EU Enlargement Experiment
Elsner, Benjamin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
restrictions on the migrant sending countries. With EU enlargement in 2004, 1.2 million workers from Eastern Europe emigrated to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371882
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Welfare and Employment: A European Dilemma?
Eichhorst, Werner; Hemerijck, Anton - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
The majority of the Member States of the European Union have undertaken remarkably comprehensive welfare and labor market reforms in the years since the 1990s. Many of these reforms, however, have not followed the conventional retrenchment and deregulation recipes, but rather took a liking to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703459
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Sharp Teeth or Empty Mouths? Revisiting the Minimum Wage Bite with Sectoral Data
Garnero, Andrea; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The paper explores the link between different institutional features of minimum wage systems and the minimum wage bite. We notably address the striking absence of studies on sectoral-level minima and exploit unique data covering 17 European countries and information from more than 1100...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990915
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Youth Unemployment in Europe: What to Do about It?
Eichhorst, Werner; Hinte, Holger; Rinne, Ulf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Youth unemployment has become a severe economic and societal problem in many European countries. This paper gives an overview of the current situation and assesses different policy options. It emphasizes the role of stronger intra-EU mobility of young workers, policies to make vocational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990944
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Migration as an Adjustment Mechanism in the Crisis? A Comparison of Europe and the United States
Jauer, Julia; Liebig, Thomas; Martin, John P.; Puhani, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
new light on this question by comparing pre- and post-crisis migration movements at the regional level in both Europe and … in Europe. Indeed, in contrast to the pre-crisis situation and the findings of previous empirical studies, there is … tentative evidence that the migration response to the crisis has been considerable in Europe, in contrast to the United States …
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