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Perceptions of ethno-cultural diversity and neighborhood cohesion in three European countries
Koopmans, Ruud - 2014
localities in Germany, France, and the Netherlands, we explore a crucial individual-level mechanism: perceptions of diversity. We …
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Criminality, social cohesion and economic performance
Entorf, Horst - 2000
aggregation. Our empirical results with respect to the causes of crime clearly reveal the crime reducing potential of family … cohesion and the link between crime and the labour market. Furthermore, we find that higher wealth is associated with higher … rates of property crime and of drug-related offences. Drug offences themselves turn out to be robust factors of property …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428328
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Convergence of European spot market prices for natural gas? : A real-time analysis of market integration using the Kalman filter
Neumann, Anne; Siliverstovs, Boriss; Hirschhausen, … - In: Applied economics letters 13 (2006) 11, pp. 727-732
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Ethnic diversity, public goods provision and social cohesion : lessons from an inconclusive literature
Schaeffer, Merlin - 2013
Over the last two decades there has been a growing debate on the supposedly negative relation between ethnic diversity, public goods production and social cohesion. Despite the amount of evidence, existing in-depth qualitative reviews conclude that the literature is inconclusive. Advancing upon...
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The role of education in determining the attitudes towards crime in Europe
D'Agostino, Elena; Sironi, Emiliano; Sobbrio, Giuseppe - In: Applied economics letters 20 (2013) 7/9, pp. 724-727
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Social capital and health across European countries
Groezen, Bas van; Jadoenandansing, R.; Pasini, G. - In: Applied economics letters 18 (2011) 10/12, pp. 1167-1170
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Shaking Dutch grounds won't shatter the European gas market
Holz, Franziska; Brauers, Hanna; Richter, Philipp M.; … - 2015
The Netherlands have been a pivotal supplier in Western European natural gas markets in the last decades. Recent … analyses show that the Netherlands would play an important role in replacing Russian supplies in Germany and France in case of … Russian export disruption (Richter & Holz, 2015). However, the Netherlands have suffered from regular earthquakes in recent …
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Atypical employment in Europe 1996 - 2011
Allmendinger, Jutta; Hipp, Lena; Stuth, Stefan - 2013
To assess the influence of nonstandard employment for the labor market participation of different demographic groups, we provide detailed descriptions of the development of atypical employment in comparison to standard employment, unemployment, and economic inactivity between 1996 and 2011. In...
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The effective average tax burden in the European Union and the USA : a computer-based calculation and comparison with the model of the European tax analyzer
Jacobs, Otto H.; Spengel, Christoph - 1999
In this paper we present a computer-based model (so-called European Tax Analyzer) for the international computation and comparison of company tax burdens. The methodology follows the forward-looking concepts for the measurement of effective average tax rates (EATR) on the basis of a model-firm....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428279
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Exchange rate regimes and fiscal discipline in OECD countries
Heinemann, Friedrich - 1999
estimation for 20 OECD countries from 1970 onwards. The conclusion is that the exchange rate regime as such is not relevant for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000683878