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How domestic constituents respond to signals of weakness in foreign wars remains an important question in international relations. In this paper, we study the impact of battlefield casualties and media coverage on public demand for war termination. To identify the effect of troop fatalities, we...
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-border mobility of inventors within the firm. The inventor team composition has important consequences for how the new knowledge is …
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A recent Spanish tax reform granted regions the authority to set income tax rates, resulting in substantial tax differentials. We use individual-level information from Social Security records over a period of one decade. Conditional on moving, taxes have a significant effect on location choice....
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performance on international markets is shaped by the human factor. This paper proposes managerial mobility as an integral part of … for the presence of self-selected mobility flows. A core finding of the paper is that the maximum return to expertise …
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Despite the importance of the Bologna process for the mobility of students, and the further mobility of graduates, as … outflows of students show imbalances and such imbalances are expected to increase with mobility. Therefore, we first suggest …
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We interpret the Open Method of Coordination (OMC), recently adopted by the EU as a mode of governance in the area of social policy and other fields, as an imitative learning dynamics of the type considered in evolutionary game theory. The best-practise feature and the iterative design of the...
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Bismarckian (with benefits related to past contributions). Labor mobility raises concerns about the sustainability of the most … differ in mobility cost (attachment to their native country). A Bismarckian insurance system is not affected by migration …
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Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In cities singles can meet more potential partners than in rural areas. Singles are therefore prepared to pay a premium in terms of higher housing prices. Once married, the marriage market benefits disappear while the housing...
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A long-standing concern in the literature has been that household mobility implies a serious threat to the viability of …
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We study the effects of decentralized wealth taxation on mobility and the effectiveness of tax coordination at … positive tax rates. We find the mobility responses to wealth taxes are within the range of prior estimates with respect to … income taxes. However, wealth tax mobility responses generate losses to personal income tax revenues that are six times …
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