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Simply a matter of luck & looks? : predicting elections when both the world economy and the psychology of faces count

Garretsen, Harry; Stoker, Janka I.; Alessie, Rob; … - 2014

Economic research shows that candidates have a higher chance of getting (re-)elected when they have the luck that the world economy does well even though this is beyond their control and unrelated to their competence. Psychological research demonstrates that candidates increase their chances if...

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How to measure the tax burden on labour at the macro-level?

Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Volkerink, Bjørn - 2003

The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, we survey the way in which the tax burden on labour has been proxied for … extent the conclusions of some studies change if some alternative indicator for the tax burden on labour is employed. We … indicator for the tax burden on labour is also shown to affect the conclusions of some well-known empirical models. …

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Wind of change? : experimental survey evidence on the COVID-19 shock and socio-political attitudes in Europe

Daniele, Gianmarco; Martinangeli, Andrea F. M.; … - 2020

This paper investigates whether the COVID-19 crisis has affected the way we think about (political) institutions, as well as our broader (policy) attitudes and values. We fielded large online survey experiments in Italy, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands, well into the first wave of the...

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Income inequality and political polarization

Marz, Waldemar - 2024

Value issues such as climate policy, immigration, or identity politics are among the most polarizing policy issues in the U.S. and other high-income countries. That polarization has been rising over the last decades. I investigate a novel channel of income inequality and political campaign...

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Chinese aid and democratic values in Latin America

Freytag, Andreas; Kautz, Miriam - 2022

International economic engagement has been increasingly framed in terms of liberal democratic values. Specifically, Chinese aid has been at the center of this debate. Since Chinese aid comes with "no strings attached," a popular narrative is that Chinese aid poses a challenge to conditional aid,...

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Structural transformation and value change : the British abolitionist movement

Figueroa, Valentin; Fouka, Vasiliki - 2023

What drives change in a society's values? From Marx to modernization theory, scholars have identified a connection between structural transformation and social change. To understand how changes in a society's dominant mode of production affect its dominant values, we examine the case of the...

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What money can buy : how market exchange promotes values

Weber, Roberto A.; Zhang, Sili - 2023

We study consumers' concerns for the ideological values of their market counterparts and the implications of such concerns for the public promotion of values. Using a survey and online and laboratory experiments, we find that consumers are willing to pay premiums to exchange with counterparts...

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Noncompliance and the effects of the minimum wage on hours and welfare in competitive labor markets

Danziger, Leif - 2009

This paper shows that increases in the minimum wage rate can have ambiguous effects on the working hours and welfare of employed workers in competitive labor markets. The reason is that employers may not comply with the minimum wage legislation and instead pay a lower subminimum wage rate. If...

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Unemployment in an interdependent world

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Larch, Mario; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - 2009

We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms. Countries may differ with respect to size, geographical location, and labor market institutions. Contrary to the literature, our single-sector perspective pays special attention...

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Testing theories of job creation : does supply create its own demand?

Carlsson, Mikael (contributor); Eriksson, Stefan (contributor) - 2006

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