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two sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to … Social Survey (ESS), the American General Social Survey (GSS), and the International Social Survey Program (ISSP). Estimation … indeed more religious than the populations in the receiving countries, both in Europe and in the United States; and (b) while …
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side demands votes and each demand enough votes to alone control a majority. The probability of a minority victory is … independent of the size of the minority and converges to one half, for any minority size, when the electorate is arbitrarily large …
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suggests that skilled immigration promotes economic equality in advanced economies under standard conditions. The context is …
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Economic theory is often abused in practical policy-making. There is frequently excessive focus on sophisticated theory at the expense of elementary theory; too much economic knowledge can sometimes be a dangerous thing. Too little attention is paid to the wider economic context, and to the...
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elasticity of money demand owe more to a faulty methodology than to the data. …
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Social preference research has fundamentally changed the way economists think about many important economic and social phenomena. However, the empirical foundation of social preferences is largely based on laboratory experiments with self-selected students as participants. This is potentially...
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discrimination or to individual effort. The absence of any evidence of regional discrimination in the process by which misconduct …
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these studies, summarised in the first part of the paper, are that the gender pay gap in Europe is typically increasing … a glass ceiling effect. The existence of this glass ceiling suggests that the average gender pay gap in Europe is mainly … extent to which these stylised facts are due to policies and institutions, discrimination, to other unobservable factors, or …
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National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Survey. …
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