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The Dynamics of Immigrant Welfare and Labour Market Behaviour
Hansen, Jörgen; Löfström, Magnus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
. Immigrants are less likely to remain employed in consecutive years than natives are and are more likely to stay on welfare and to …-refugee countries display a similar degree of ‘structural’ state dependence as natives. The high welfare participation rates among … refugee immigrants seem to be due to the existence of a ‘welfare trap’, while participation among natives and non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136710
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Immigrant Assimilation And Welfare Participation: Do Immigrants Assimilate Into Or Out Of Welfare?
Hansen, Jörgen; Löfström, Magnus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
This paper analyses differences in welfare utilization between immigrants and natives in Sweden using a large panel … data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased substantially in Sweden in … the 1990's. We find that immigrants use welfare to a greater extent than natives and that non-refugee immigrants utilize …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666675
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Politics and investment: examining the territorial allocation of public investment in Greece
Psycharis, Yannis; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres; Tselios, Vassilis - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
This paper discusses how electoral politics shapes the regional allocation of public investment expenditures per capita in Greece. Using regional public investment data for 10 political periods (1975-2009), combined with electoral data by constituency, a model is proposed which captures the...
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Culture, Languages, and Economics
Ginsburgh, Victor; Weber, Shlomo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
The impact of various facets of cultural diversity on economic outcomes has become a topic of intensive research in economics. This paper focuses on linguistic diversity as one of the important aspects of cultural heterogeneity, and more specifically, The aim of this paper is to formally examine...
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Auction House Guarantees for Works of Art
Graddy, Kathryn; Hamilton, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
Auction houses use both in-house and third-party guarantees for sellers who are concerned about the risk that not enough bidders will enter the auction for their works. Auction houses are compensated for guarantees by buyers’ commissions and successful sales after attracting important works of...
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Europe’s Great Depression: Coordination Failure after the First World War
Wolf, Nikolaus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
The purpose of this paper is to survey and re-interpret the extensive literature that tried to explain both the depth of the great depression in Europe and the delay of recovery as a failure to coordinate economic policies. Europe could not exploit her vast economic potential after 1918, because...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466327
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Losing our Marbles in the New Century? The Great Rebalancing in Historical Perspective
Meissner, Christopher M; Taylor, Alan M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
Great attention is now being paid to global imbalances, the growing U.S. current account deficit financed by growing surpluses in the rest of the world. How can the issue be understood in a more historical perspective? We seek a meaningful comparison between the two eras of globalization:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666403
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Human Development in Africa: A Long-run Perspective
Prados de la Escosura, Leandro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Long-run trends in Africa’s well-being are provided on the basis of a new index of human development, alternative to the UNDP’s HDI. A sustained improvement in African human development is found that falls, nonetheless, short of those experienced in other developing regions. Within Africa,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322973
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The Quality of Life, the National Interest and the Role of Economics.
Gruen, F. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1996
This paper is a contribution to a series of seminars in honour of the late Ronald Henderson. The author was asked to address the question of how the national interest, possible loss of national sovereignty can be addressed within the market framework and whether there are reasons for concern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004971421
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Where did the Productivity Growth Go? Inflation Dynamics and the Distribution of Income
Dew-Becker, Ian; Gordon, Robert J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
A basic tenet of economic science is that productivity growth is the source of growth in real income per capita. But our results raise doubts by creating a direct link between macro productivity growth and the micro evolution of the income distribution. We show that over the entire period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123760