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Lewis, Kevin; Gray, Kurt; Meierhenrich, Jens - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Darfur “Cause” on Facebook to provide a detailed first look at a massive online social movement. While both donation and … contributed no money to it-suggesting that in the case of the Save Darfur campaign, Facebook conjured an illusion of activism …

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Revolving door lobbyists

Blanes i Vidal, Jordi; Draca, Mirko; Fons-Rosen, Christian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

Washington's 'revolving door' - the movement from government service into the lobbying industry - is regarded as a major concern for policy-making. We study how ex-government staffers benefit from the personal connections acquired during their public service. Lobbyists with experience in the...

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Your loss is my gain: a recruitment experiment with framed incentives

de Quidt, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Empirically, labor contracts that financially penalize failure induce higher effort provision than economically identical contracts presented as paying a bonus for success, an effect attributed to loss aversion. This is puzzling, as penalties are infrequently used in practice. The most obvious...

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Four facets of critical news literacy in a non-democratic regime: how young Russians navigate their news

Toepfl, Florian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Fueled by the Arab spring, the question of how the rise of internet-mediated communication affects authoritarian regimes has received unprecedented attention within the discipline of communications. However, in this debate, scholars have not yet turned to the concept of literacy and addressed...

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The strategic use of metaphors by political and media elites: the 2007-11 Belgian constitutional crisis

Cammaerts, Bart - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

On 9 December 2011 a new Belgian government was sworn in after a record-breaking 541 days of negotiations between all democratic political forces with the aim to alter the constitution and provide more autonomy to the different regions that make up Belgium. In this article, the frequent use of...

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Monthly Report No. 4/2014

Landesmann, Michael; Leitner, Sandra M.; Mara, Isilda; … - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2014

liberalisation of access to EU labour markets change migration patterns? (by Michael Landesmann, Isilda Mara and Hermine Vidovic … restrictions for Romanian and Bulgarian migrants, and potential migration to Austria (by Isilda Mara) Migrants in Italy, the United …

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Monthly Report No. 3/2009

Landesmann, Michael; Stehrer, Robert; Vidovic, Hermine - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2009

European Union Topics Macroeconomic Analysis, Forecasts and Policy Migration from the New to the Old EU Member States country … experiences (by H. Vidovic; pp. 5-14) Keywords migration, EU, integration Countries covered European Union, New EU Member States … Topics Labour and Migration Outsourcing and skills an empirical investigation (by M. Landesmann and R. Stehrer; pp. 15 …

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Local economic conditions and the nature of new housing supply

Hilber, Christian A. L.; Rouwendal, Jan; Vermeulen, Wouter - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

migration and is hindered by strict local land use control. Our findings imply that tight regulation may hamper metro area level …

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Globalization and Its Impact on Labour

Feenstra, Robert C. - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2007

, the impact of international migration flows, etc. …

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EU Enlargement: Economic Impacts on Austria and the Five Acceding Central European Countries

Havlik, Peter - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2002

induce income convergence in the CECs, thereby reducing potential migration. Given the similar demographic trends in both the … present EU member states and the candidate countries in Central Europe, migration and the associated labour shortages may also …

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