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Return, circular, and onward migration decisions in a knowledge society

Constant, Amelie - 2019

, circular and onward migration of the highly-skilled migrants around the world. After it describes the status quo in the … knowledge economy and the international race for talent, it presents the relevant theories and concepts of migration in the …

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Shedding light on the shadow economy : a global database and the interaction with the official one

Medina, Leandro; Schneider, Friedrich - 2019 - 2nd version

estimating the size of the shadow economy for 157 countries over 1991 to 2017. The results suggest that the OECD countries are by … far the lowest with values below 20% of off official GDP and the shadow economy is larger in Latin America and Sub ….9 %. What is really remarkable, that the average decline of the shadow economy from 1991 to 2017 is 6.8 percentage points. The …

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Transportation costs and the great divergence

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2014

This work shows the asymmetric effect of the reduction in transportation costs across different sectors in the process of the Great Divergence. Specifically, the analysis indicates that reductions in transportation costs of industrial goods enhance convergence of the growth rates of trading...

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The dynamic interplay of inequality and trust : an experimental study

Greiner, Ben (contributor); Ockenfels, Axel (contributor); … - 2007

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A theory of tolerance

Corneo, Giacomo (contributor); Jeanne, Olivier (contributor) - 2007

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An economic theory of Switzerland

Blankart, Charles B. - 2011

Switzerland is often viewed as a federalist curiosity and a unique form of direct democracy. But this view does not provide a proper understanding of the country. A theory of Switzerland is necessary. A consideration of the initial, exogenous geographical situation of Swiss territory provides a...

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Rationality in economics : theory and evidence

Dhami, Sanjit S.; Al-Nowaihi, Ali - 2018

We examine the various senses in which economist use the term "rationality" and then outline some of the commonly drawn implications and auxiliary assumptions. Finally, we confront the implications with the empirical evidence, drawing on the insights from the exciting new field of behavioral...

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Non-welfarist optimal taxation and behavioral public economics : presented at CESifo Venice Summer Institute, Workshop on Behavioral Public Economics, July 2004

Kanbur, Ravi; Pirttilä, Jukka; Tuomala, Matti - 2004

Research in behavioral economics has uncovered the widespread phenomenon of people making decisions against their own good intentions. In these situations, the government might want to intervene, indeed individuals might want the government to intervene, to induce behavior that is closer to what...

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Bringing the Copenhagen global climate change negotiations to conclusion

Whalley, John (contributor); Walsh, Sean (contributor) - 2008

(China, India, Russia, Brazil) on the other. -- Climate change ; global negotiation …

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Back to Kyoto? : US participation and the linkage between R&D and climate cooperation

Buchner, Barbara; Carraro, Carlo; Cersosimo, Igor; … - 2002

&D cooperation. This paper explores this idea by analysing on the one hand the incentives for EU, Japan and Russia to adopt this …

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