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Mixed motives: an empirical analysis of ILO roll-call votes
Boockmann, Bernhard - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002
In this empirical paper, we look at individual voting behaviour of government delegates to the International Labour … Organization (ILO). We distinguish between the instrumental motive for voting, which consists in the chance that one´s vote may … from 1977 to 1995. The hypothesis that voting is only instrumental is clearly rejected by the data. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097496
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Direct democracy and local public finances under cooperative federalism
Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Grigoriadis, … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
This paper exploits the introduction of the right of referenda at the local level in the German state of Bavaria in 1995 to study the fiscal effects of direct democracy. In the first part of the paper, we establish the relationship between referenda activity and fiscal performance by using a new...
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The effect of direct democracy on the level and structure of local taxes
Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Heinemann, … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
We study the effect of direct democracy on local taxation. Our setting is the German federal state of Bavaria, where in 1995 a state-wide referendum introduced the possibility to initiate direct democratic legislation into the local government code. Relying on a sample of all Bavarian...
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The indirect effects of direct democracy: Local government size and non-budgetary voter initiatives
Asatryan, Zareh - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
, nor the responsibility of voting on the implied costs of these initiatives. By exploiting a novel dataset containing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957753
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What a Difference Immigration Law Makes: PISA Results, Migration Background and Social Mobility in Europe and Traditional Countries of Immigration
Minoiu, Nicoleta; Entorf, Horst - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004
The purpose of this article is to evaluate the importance of social class, migration background and command of national languages for the PISA school performance of teenagers living in European countries (France, Finland, Germany, United Kingdom, and Sweden) and traditional countries of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097802
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Allocation of human capital and innovation at the frontier: Firm-level evidence on Germany and the Netherlands
Bartelsmann, Eric; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Peters, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14,586 enterprises in the Netherlands over the period...
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Double Standards in Educational Standards: Are Disadvantaged Students Being Graded More Leniently?
Himmler, Oliver; Schwager, Robert - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007
A simple model of decentralised graduation standards is presented. It is shown that a school whose students are disadvantaged on the labour market applies less demanding standards because such students have less incentives to graduate. The model's predictions are tested using Dutch school-level...
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Young and innocent international evidence on age effects within grades on school victimization in elementary school
Mühlenweg, Andrea M. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
This study examines the impact of children's age within grade on school victimization in elementary school. Identification of age effects relies on the instrumental variables approach drawing on official school entry age rules based on children's month of birth. The empirical analysis uses the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097675
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Grade Inflation, Social Background, and Labour Market Matching
Schwager, Robert - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
A model is presented where workers of differing abilities and from different social backgrounds are assigned to jobs based on grades received at school. It is examined how this matching is affected if good grades are granted to some low ability students. Such grade inflation is shown to reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097767
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Noncognitive Skills, Internet Use and Educational Dropout
Coneus, Katja; Gernandt, Johannes; Saam, Marianne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
education vanishes for males once we control for additional characteristics such as occupations, professional Internet use and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097929