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Clash of Career and Family : Fertility Decisions after Job Displacement
Bono, Emilia Del - 2014
In this paper we investigate how fertility decisions respond to unexpected career interruptions which occur as a consequence of job displacement. Using an event study approach we compare the birth rates of displaced women with those of women unaffected by job loss after establishing the...
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Is Human Capital Losing from Outsourcing? Evidence for Austria and Poland
Lorentowicz, Andzelika - 2006
Mexico leads to an increase in the skill premium in both the US and Mexico. In this paper we show on the example of Austria … and Poland that with the new international division of labour emerging in Europe Austria, the high income country, is … skill part. As a result, skilled workers in Austria are losing from outsourcing, while gaining in Poland. In Austria …
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So Similar and Yet so Different : A Comparative Analysis of a Firm's Cost and Benefits of Apprenticeship Training in Austria and Switzerland
Moretti, Luca - 2017
The authors compare a firm's costs and benefits of providing apprenticeship training in Austria and Switzerland, using … pay in Austria, which in turn is associated with collective bargaining agreements and competition with alternative school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942011
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Precommitted Government Spending and Partisan Politics
Bohn, Henning - 2011
This paper analyzes government commitments to ongoing spending programs that require future outlays. Spending commitments are important for understanding partisan politics because they constrain future governments. In a model with one government good, a “stubborn liberal” policy maker can...
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Do Parties Punish MPs for Voting against the Party Line?
Kauder, Bjoern - 2017
We examine whether parties punish politicians who vote against the party line in roll-call votes. Using data of German members of parliament over the legislative period 2009-2013, we take into account that the effect of punishment differs along the list of candidates because a candidate is...
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Incumbent Effects and Partisan Alignment in Local Elections : A Regression Discontinuity Analysis Using Italian Data
Bracco, Emanuele; Porcelli, Francesco; Redoano, Michela - 2021
This paper provides a simple model to explain effect of political alignment between different tiers of government on policy choices and election outcomes. We derive precise predictions that, as long as voters attribute most of the credit for providing public goods to the local government: (i)...
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The Influence of Special Interests and Party Activists on Electoral Competition
Martineau, Nicolas-Guillaume - 2021
This paper studies the effects on electoral competition of political parties relying on monetary donations and volunteer labor for their electioneering activities. It also examines whether a recorded decline in party activism increases special-interest influence on party policy platforms....
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Elites or Masses? A Structural Model of Policy Divergence, Voter Sorting and Apparent Polarization in U.S. Presidential Elections, 1972-2008
Krasa, Stefan - 2012
One of the most widely discussed phenomena in American politics today is the perceived increasing partisan divide that splits the U.S. electorate. A central contested question is whether this diagnosis is actually true, and if so, what is the underlying cause. We develop a model that relates the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109748
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Fertility, Female Labor Supply, and Family Policy
Fehr, Hans - 2011
The present paper develops a general equilibrium model with overlapping generations and endogenous fertility in order to analyze the interaction between public policy and household labor supply and fertility decisions. The model's benchmark equilibrium reflects the current family policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124970
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Gender Power, Fertility, and Family Policy
Kemnitz, Alexander - 2012
The birth of children often shifts the power balance within a family. If family decisions are made according to the spouses' welfare function, this shift in power may lead to a time consistency problem. The allocation of resources after the birth of children may differ from the ex-ante optimal...
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