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Clash of career and family : fertility decisions after job displacement
Del Bono, Emilia (contributor); Weber, Andrea (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003630457
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The parenthood penalty in mental health : evidence from Austria and Denmark
Ahammer, Alexander; Glogowsky, Ulrich; Halla, Martin; … - 2023
prescriptions of about 93.2% (Austria) and 64.8% (Denmark). These parenthood penalties in mental health are unlikely to reflect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014391315
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Is human capital losing from outsourcing? : Evidence for Austria and Poland
Lorentowicz, Andzelika (contributor);  … - 2005
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003297588
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Social capital and the spread of Covid-19 : insights from European countries
Bartscher, Alina Kristin; Seitz, Sebastian; Siegloch, … - 2020
We explore the role of social capital in the spread of the recent Covid-19 pandemic in independent analyses for Austria …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012226751
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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; Mayerl, Martin; Mühlemann, Samuel; … - 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/10011743102
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Elites or masses? : a structural model of policy divergence, voter sorting and apparent polarization in US presidential elections, 1972 - 2008
Krasa, Stefan; Polborn, Mattias - 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/10009503800
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The influence of special interests and party activists on electoral competition
Martineau, Nicolas-Guillaume - 2012
This paper studies the effects on electoral competition of political parties relying on monetary donations and volunteer labour for their electioneering activities. It also examines whether a recorded decline in party activism increases special-interest influence on party policy platforms....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009535105
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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 - 2013 - First version: February 2011, This version: December 2012
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)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009690827
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How does party discipline affect legislative behavior? : evidence from within-session variation in lame duck status
Fiva, Jon H.; Nedregård, Oda - 2022
How important are political parties in motivating and disciplining elected officials? Using a difference-in-discontinuity design, we study how shocks to incumbents're-election probabilities affect legislative behavior in a setting where parties fully control candidate selection. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177096
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Precommitted government spending and partisan politics
Watkins, William E.; 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 use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009127554