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Public Finance in the Era of the COVID-19 Crisis
Agrawal, David R.; Butikofer, Aline - 2022
education, in addition to discussing how technological change creates new challenges for the taxation of income and consumption … crises. Finally, we summarize the key issues discussed at the 2021 International Institute of Public Finance Congress and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014243165
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Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US?: selective features of immigration to four major OECD countries
Geis, Wido; Uebelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2008
Building on a new data set which is combined from national micro-data bases, we highlight differences in the structure of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all immigrants to the OECD world. Looking at immigrants by source...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264459
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Public Finance in the Era of the Covid-19 Crisis
Agrawal, David R.; Bütikofer, Aline - 2022
education, in addition to discussing how technological change creates new challenges for the taxation of income and consumption … crises. Finally, we summarize the key issues discussed at the 2021 International Institute of Public Finance Congress and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470264
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Keep Calm and Carry On: The Short- vs. Long-Run Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on (Academic) Performance
Cassar, Lea; Fischer, Mira; Valero, Vanessa - 2022
business world and in education. While the scientific literature has largely documented the benefits of mindfulness meditation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470357
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International Applicability of Education and Migration Aspirations
Kulka, Amrita; Nikolka, Till; Poutvaara, Panu; … - 2023
We analyze perceptions of international applicability of one's education and migration aspirations and intentions among … education least internationally applicable. Perceived international applicability strongly predicts migration aspirations and … those not studying law, hours spent studying are increasing with perceived international applicability of one's education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290305
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The E-Word - On the Public Acceptance of Experiments
Fischer, Mira; Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2023
Randomized experiments are often viewed as the "gold standard" of scientific evidence, but people's scepticism towards experiments has compromised their viability in the past. We study preferences for experimental policy evaluations in a representative survey in Germany (N1,900). We find that a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469477
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Mobility and the Role of Education as a Commitment Device
Thum, Claudio; Uebelmesser, Silke - 2001
a popular belief that increasing labor mobility decreases the incentives to finance the education of the subsequent … for both the public pay-as-you-go pension scheme and the public education system. Without labor mobility, each generation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315085