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Do Ethnic Enclaves Impede Immigrants' Integration? Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Social-Interaction Approach
Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - CESifo - 2012
concentration on social integration. The exogenous placement of immigrants “switches off” observable and unobservable differences in …-ethnics increases migrants’ interaction cost with natives and thus reduces the likelihood of integration. …
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Integrated Public Education, Fertility and Human Capital
Azarnert, Leonid V. - CESifo - 2011
This article analyzes the consequences of integration in public education. I show that the flight from the integrated … among more affluent parents whose children flee. In contrast, among less prosperous parents, integration in public education … rich, who can resort to private education. I also analyze the overall society-wide effect of the integration policy and …
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Tear Down this Wall: On the Persistence of Borders in Trade
Nitsch, Volker; Wolf, Nikolaus - CESifo - 2009
-West border; political integration is not rapidly followed by economic integration. Instead, we estimate that it takes at least …
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How Much Do Means-Tested Benefits Reduce the Demand for Annuities?
Butler, Monika - 2011
We analyze the effect of means-tested benefits on annuitization decisions. Most industrialized countries provide a subsistence level consumption floor in old age, usually in the form of means-tested benefits. The availability of such means-tested payments creates an incentive to cash out...
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Should Local Public Employment Services Be Merged with the Local Social Benefit Administrations?
Holzner, Christian - 2011
The German Federal government has allowed some regions (Approved Local Providers) to be solely responsible for the care of long-term unemployed. The remaining regions had to form Joint Local Agencies, where the local social benefit administrations work together with the local public employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124387
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Social Long Term Care Insurance and Redistribution
Cremer, Helmuth - 2011
We study the role of social long term care (LTC) insurance when income taxation and private insurance markets are imperfect. Policy instruments include public provision of LTC as well as a subsidy on private insurance. The subsidy scheme may be linear or nonlinear. For the linear part we...
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Portability of Social Benefits International Trade in Services : Some Reflections
Valdes-Prieto, Salvador - 2014
In this fascinating new field, this paper offers some reflections on portability of social benefits, and tries to identify promising research topics. These reflections are organized in three sections. The first analyzes the channels that underpin the positive value of portability of social...
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Does the Indexing of Government Transfers Make Carbon Pricing Progressive?
Fullerton, Don - 2014
We analyze both the uses side and the sources side incidence of domestic climate policy using an analytical general equilibrium model, taking into account the degree of government program indexing. When transfer programs such as Social Security are explicitly indexed to inflation, higher energy...
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An Empirical Analysis of the Dynamics of the Welfare State : The Case of Benefit Morale
Halla, Martin - 2009
Does the supply of a welfare state create its own demand? Many economic scholars studying welfare arrangements refer to Say's law and insinuate a self-destructive welfare state. However, little is known about the empirical validity of these assumptions and hypotheses. We study the dynamic effect...
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Welfare Stigma in the Lab : Evidence of Social Signaling
Friedrichsen, Jana - 2017
Using a laboratory experiment, we present first evidence that stigmatization through public exposure causally reduces the take-up of an individually beneficial transfer. Our design exogenously varies the informativeness of the take-up decision by varying whether transfer eligibility is based on...
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