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Knowledge Remittances : Does Emigration Foster Innovation?
Fackler, Thomas - 2019
contributes to innovation in source countries. We use changes in the labour mobility legislation within Europe as exogenous …
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Populists in Power
Doerr, Luisa; Potrafke, Niklas; Roesel, Felix - 2021
electorate becomes more polarized under populist mayors. However, polarization is not limited to politics. A major innovation of …
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Populism and the Skill-Content of Globalization: Evidence from the Last 60 Years
Docquier, Frédéric; Guichard, Lucas; Iandolo, Stefano; … - 2022
investigate the "global" determinants of populism, we look at trade and immigration jointly and consider their size as well as … well as high-skill immigration, tend to reduce the volume of populism. …We analyze the long-run evolution of populism and explore the role of globalization in shaping such evolution. We use …
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Understanding the Origins of Populist Political Parties and the Role of External Shocks
Levi, Eugenio; Sin, Isabelle; Stillman, Steven - 2021
impacts on particular locations, and immigration reforms, which led to large spatially concentrated increases in skilled … in explaining the rise of populism in NZ. Understanding how these shocks led to the development of NZF is particularly … relevant for thinking about how populism has been extending its reach in the 2010s. …
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Does Federalism Affect E-Government in Germany?
Bartholomae, Florian W.; Nam, Chang Woon; Steinhoff, Peter - 2023
International comparisons show that the reasons why e-government development in Germany does not occupy the desired “top spot” in rankings lie primarily in the inadequate provision of online services with little corresponding user orientation. In order to provide better and faster public...
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Why is the public sector more labor-intensive?
Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - 2004
A relatively high labor-intensity in government-run entities need not imply slack in their organization. Rather, it is a rational reaction to various forms of wage tax advantage that the public sector has over private firms. Even though an unequal tax treatment of public and private sectors...
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Does Public Sector Outsourcing Decrease Public Employment? Empirical Evidence from OECD Countries
Potrafke, Niklas - 2019
I examine the extent to which public sector outsourcing relates to public employment in OECD countries. I use new panel data on public sector outsourcing. The sample includes 26 countries over the period 2009-2015. Contrary to common expectations, the results do not suggest that public sector...
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Efficiency Wages with Motivated Agents
Armouti-Hansen, Jesper - 2020
Many organizations nowadays combine profits with a social mission. This paper reveals a new hidden benefit of the mission: its role in facilitating the emergence of efficiency wages. We show that in a standard gift-exchange principals highly underestimate agents' reciprocity and, thereby, offer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012825994
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Labor Market Hardships and Preferences for Public Sector Employment and Employers : Evidence from Russia
Jin, Olivia; Pyle, William - 2021
A growing literature connects labor market hardships to stronger preferences for government welfare and redistribution programs. Potential preference shifts with respect to other types of state involvement in the economy, however, have gone unexplored. We draw on both longitudinal and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013216256
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Arm's Length Provision of Public Services
Bennedsen, Morten; Schultz, Christian - 2021
We analyze the economic consequences of strategic delegation of the right to decide between public or private provision of a governmental service and/or the authority to negotiate and renegotiate with the chosen service provider. Our model encompasses both bureaucratic delegation from a...
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