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Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Swe­den, Switzerland and the UK. We exploit within-country variation in social …
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Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and self-selection biases. The usefulness of survey data is limited by measurement error and by the questionability of their behavioral relevance. Here we present a method integrating interactive experiments and...
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This paper discusses how local tax rates of the business tax are set when communities compete for capital as a mobile factor. In a theoretical model communities provide public inputs financed by a tax on capital income in order to maximize a general objective function, which includes residents'...
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diversion failed as increasing shares of dismissals by prosecutors and judges enhance crime rates in Germany. Crime is …
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currently discussed factors of crime like demographic changes, youth-unemployment and income inequality. We use a panel of the … deterrence hypothesis for crime against property. Only weak support can be observed for crime against the person. Economic and …
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The rising trends both in drug addiction and crime rates are of major public concern in Germany. Surprisingly, the … economic theory of crime seems to ignore the drugs-crime nexus, whereas the criminological literature considers illicit drug … Becker-Ehrlich model of crime supply. We analyse three different channels from drug abuse to crime: system-related, economic …
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Untersucht wird der Einfluss des Humankapitals, der Arbeitsmarktlage, der familiären Situation sowie der Persönlichkeitseigenschaften und sozialen Ressourcen auf die individuelle Arbeitslosigkeitsdauer anhand des Sozioökonomischen Panels (SOEP) in West- und Ostdeutschland. Es wird eine...
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correction models for Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain. Using the weights of the Harmonized Index of Consumer …
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