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Fighting mobile crime
Crinò, Rosario; Immordino, Giovanni; Piccolo, Salvatore - 2019
their territory. Crime is mobile, ex ante (migration) and ex post (fleeing), and criminals hiding abroad after having com …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011956277
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Educating Europe
Poutvaara, Panu - 2004
The mobility of labor reduces national incentives to invest in internationally applicable education. The European Union could overcome this by allowing member states to institute graduate taxes or income-contingent loans, collected also from migrants. This paper presents calculations on how a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404287
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Job search and savings : wealth effects and duration dependence
Lentz, Rasmus; Tranæs, Torben - 2001
In this paper we consider a risk averse worker who is moving back and forth between employment and unemployment; layoffs are random and beyond the worker s influence, while the re-employment chance is directly affected by search effort. We characterize the worker s optimal savings and job-search...
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Monetary policy and nominal rigidities under low inflation
Holden, Steinar - 2001
In most European countries, money wages are given in collective agreements or individual employment contracts, and the employer cannot unilaterally cut wages, even after the expiration of a collective agreement. Ceteris paribus, workers have a stronger bargaining position when they try to...
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Has the Dutch miracle come to an end?
Ours, Jan C. van - 2003
In the past decades unemployment in the Netherlands has gone down substantially. The main suspects responsible for this decline are the growth of part-time labor, the reform of the benefit system and wage moderation. Nevertheless, in 2002 the unemployment rate in the Netherlands has increased...
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An adaptive targeted field experiment : job search assistance for refugees in Jordan
Caria, Stefano A.; Gordon, Grant; Kasy, Maximilian; … - 2020
We introduce a novel methodology for adaptive targeted experiments. Our Tempered Thompson Algorithm balances the goals of maximizing the precision of treatment effect estimates and maximizing the welfare of experimental participants. A hierarchical Bayesian model allows us to adaptively target...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270365
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The welfare state redistribution and the economy : reciprocal altruism, consumer rivalry and second best
Ploeg, Frederick van der - 2004
Democratic countries with substantial inequality and where people believe that success depends on connections and luck induce political support for high tax rates and generous welfare states. Traditional wisdom is that such policies harm the economy, but there is not much evidence that countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449990
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On human capital formation with exit options : comment and new results
Poutvaara, Panu (contributor) - 2006
Katz and Rapoport (2005) conclude that with linear production technology and the possibility of unilateral migration … result with Cobb-Douglas technology and migration which may go in both directions. This paper shows that the exit option may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003300958
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Voting on public pensions with hand and feet : how young migrants try to escape from gerontocracy
Haupt, Alexander; Peters, Wolfgang - 2001
, nevertheless, is restricted by migration of the young generations. This connection between political voting on intergenerational … case in which the young generations migration decision takes its effect on future pensions into account (strategic … migration) and the case in which it only reflects differentials in labor income (myopic migration). The paper also pays …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399341
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Migration, local fiscal variables and local economic conditions
Carlsen, Fredrik - 2001
on migration plans become weaker when amenity variables are included, indicating that capitalization of amenities cannot … explain weak effects of local economic conditions on migration in Europe. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399727