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Seasonality in Smoking Behaviour : Re-Evaluating the Effects of the 2005 Public Smoking Ban in Italy
Bono, Emilia Del; Grünberger, Klaus; Vuri, Daniela - 2021
This paper investigates the impact of the public smoking ban which came into effect in Italy on January 2005 on individual smoking behaviour. Current empirical evidence supports the existence of a negative effect of the Italian ban on smoking prevalence and consumption in the general population....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315560
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Seasonality in Smoking Behaviour: Re-evaluating the Effects of the 2005 Public Smoking Ban in Italy
Bono, Emilia Del; Grünberger, Klaus; Vuri, Daniela - CESifo - 2014
This paper investigates the impact of the public smoking ban which came into effect in Italy on January 2005 on individual smoking behaviour. Current empirical evidence supports the existence of a negative effect of the Italian ban on smoking prevalence and consumption in the general population....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011082833
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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
immigrants’ inter-ethnic contact networks and social activities, we are able to identify the causal effect of ethnic …It is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society … concentration on social integration. The exogenous placement of immigrants “switches off” observable and unobservable differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877983
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Immigration and Entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - CESifo - 2015
Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257678
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International Migration, Transfers of Norms and Home Country Fertility
Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice - CESifo - 2008
This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries’ fertility norms and an incentive to acquire more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406148
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Labour Mobility and the Portability of Social Rights in the EU
d'Addio, Anna Christina; Cavalleri, Maria Chiara - 2021
The paper first discusses the main sources of concern for people in the perspective of professional mobility abroad as they result from the analysis of the Eurobarometer survey, wave 75.1 of 2011. Second, it tests whether portability of social security within Europe is a determinant of intra-EU...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315809
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Labour Mobility and the Portability of Social Rights in the EU
d'Addio, Anna Cristina; Cavalleri, Maria Chiara - CESifo - 2013
The paper first discusses the main sources of concern for people in the perspective of professional mobility abroad as they result from the analysis of the Eurobarometer survey, wave 75.1 of 2011. Second, it tests whether portability of social security within Europe is a determinant of intra-EU...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877964
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Smoking and Social Interaction
Poutvaara, Panu; Siemers, Lars-H. R. - CESifo - 2007
We study the social interaction of non-smokers and smokers as a sequential game, incorporating insights from social psychology and experimental economics into an economic model. Social norms affect human behavior such that non-smokers do not ask smokers to stop smoking and stay with them, even...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765665
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The Healthy Immigrant Paradox and Health Convergence
Constant, Amelie F. - 2017
the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and …. Namely, immigrants arrive with better health compared to natives and their health deteriorates with longer residence in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943173
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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