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Bitterness in Life and Attitudes Towards Immigration
Poutvaara, Panu - 2015
provide new evidence on the determinants of individual attitudes towards immigration, using data from the 2005 and 2010 waves … about immigration. This effect cannot be explained just by concerns that immigrants are competing with oneself in the labor … market. Instead, it appears that people who feel that they have not got what they deserve in life oppose immigration for …
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Should Immigrants Culturally Assimilate or Preserve Their Own Culture? Individual Beliefs and the Longevity of National Identity
Grajzl, Peter - 2017
evidence based on data from countries of wider Europe supports our theory. An expert survey-based measure of the longevity of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954570
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Returns to Citizenship? Evidence from Germany's Recent Immigration Reforms
Gathmann, Christina - 2014
liberal access to citizenship improves the economic integration of immigrants. Our analysis relies on two major immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054494
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Minimum Wages and the Labor Market Effects of Immigration
Edo, Anthony - 2017
state regulations to investigate how minimum wages affect the labor market impact of immigration. We find that the effects … of immigration on labor market outcomes of native workers within a given state-skill cell are more negative in U … immigration as well as state minimum wages, and to implementing a difference-in-differences strategy comparing U.S. States where …
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The Economic Impact of Demographic Structure in OECD Countries
Aksoy, Yunus - 2012
We examine the impact of demographic structure, the proportion of the population in each age group, on growth, savings, investment, hours, interest rates and inflation using a panel VAR estimated from data for 20 OECD economies, mainly for the period 1970-2007. This flexible dynamic structure...
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Demographic Structure and Macroeconomic Trends
Aksoy, Yunus; Basso, Henrique S.; Smith, Ron; Grasl, Tobias - 2021
The effect of changes in demographic structure on medium-run trends of key macroeconomic variables is estimated using a Panel VAR of 21 OECD economies. The panel data variability assists the identification of direct effects of demographics, while the dynamic structure uncovers long-term effects....
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Does Female Suffrage Increase Public Support for Government Spending? Evidence from Swiss Ballots
Jaronicki, Katharina - 2013
In this paper, I analyze the voting outcomes of two very similar Swiss referendum ballots concerning the federal government's competency to levy income, capital and turnover taxes to find out how the enfranchisement of women influences public support for government spending. The first ballot...
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Media, Fake News, and Debunking
Van Long, Ngo - 2018
We construct a Hotelling-type model of two media providers, each of whom can issue fake and/or real news and each of whom can invest in the debunking of their rival's fake news. The model assumes that consumers have an innate preference for one provider or the other and value real news. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919058
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Public Opinion on Education Policy in Germany
Lergetporer, Philipp - 2017
To better understand the political economy constraints of education policy, we have conducted the annual ifo Education Survey in Germany since 2014. This paper summarizes selected key findings on the German publics' preferences for education policies ranging from early childhood education and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948329
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Discrete Adjustment to a Changing Environment : Experimental Evidence
Khaw, Mel - 2017
We conduct a laboratory experiment to shed light on the cognitive limitations that may affect the way decision makers respond to changes in their economic environment. The subjects solve a tracking problem: they estimate the probability of a binary event, which changes stochastically. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963774