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Culture, diversity, and the welfare state
Gründler, Klaus; Köllner, Sebastian - 2018
We show that culture and diversity strongly influence welfare systems around the globe. To disentangle culture from …
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Cultural distance and ethnic civil conflict
Guarnieri, Eleonora - 2023
Ethnically diverse countries are more prone to conflict, but why do some groups engage in conflict while others do not? I show that civil conflict is explained by ethnic groups' cultural distance to the central government: an increase in cultural distance, proxied by linguistic distance,...
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Individualism, human capital formation, and labor market success
Hartinger, Katharina; Resnjanskij, Sven; Ruhose, Jens; … - 2021
adult education activities. In fact, individualism is more important in explaining adult skill formation than any other …
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Mentoring and schooling decisions : causal evidence
Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia - 2020
-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012234470
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Competition for the international pool of talent : education policy and student mobility
Haupt, Alexander; Krieger, Tim; Lange, Thomas - 2011
education ; student mobility ; vertical quality differentiation ; return migration ; brain gain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011762
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Student and worker mobility under university and government competition
Delpierre, Matthieu; Verheyden, Bertrand - 2011
overinvest in education, whereas worker mobility generates a free-rider effect for governments, who are not willing to subsidize … the education of agents who will work abroad. At equilibrium, the free-rider effect always dominates the competition …
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The determinants of international mobility of students
Beine, Michel; Noël, Romain; Ragot, Lionel - 2012
fees. -- student mobility ; network effect ; migration costs ; higher education policy …
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The political economics of higher education finance for mobile individuals
Borck, Rainald; Übelmesser, Silke; Wimbersky, Martin - 2012
We study voting over higher education finance in an economy with two regions and two separated labor markets … subsidize higher education costs or whether to rely on tuition fees only. We find that in equilibrium, in both regions a … rates, but the larger are the numbers of exchange students. -- voting ; higher education ; financing scheme ; mobility …
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Taxing expats : instrumental versus expressive voting compared
Blankart, Charles B.; Margraf, Simon - 2011
It is common knowledge that mobile individuals are difficult to tax. Governments accommodate these difficulties by granting special tax reductions to mobile individuals as it is expedient to get some tax revenue from these individuals rather than to lose them as tax payers completely. Taxing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009375253
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The impact of taxation on international assignment decisions : a principal-agent approach
Martini, Jan Thomas; Niemann, Rainer - 2013
In many industries like management consulting, IT consulting, or construction highly qualified employees, i.e., experts or executive managers, have to be assigned to temporary projects. In firms with many employees and various different projects, this assignment decision involves a complex...
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