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Selective outmigration and the estimation of immigrants' earnings profiles
Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2014
immigrants is selective both in terms of migrants' individual characteristics and their economic outcomes. We then examine the …
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Estimating immigrant earnings profiles when migrations are temporary
Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2016
The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many - if not most - migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...
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Immigrants' returns intentions and job search behavior when the home country is unsafe
Bassetto, Jacopo; Freitas Monteiro, Teresa - 2024
Migration is often temporary, and the intended length of stay in the host country is an important determinant of immigrants' labor market behavior, human capital investment, and socioeconomic integration. In this paper, we investigate whether safety conditions in the home country affect...
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How do migrants choose their destination country? : an analysis of institutional determinants
Geis, Wido; Übelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2008
institutional determinants, especially labor-market institutions, on migrants' choices. Based on a large data set constructed from … migrants, while generous pension systems may deter them. Based on separate estimations for high- and low-skilled migrants …
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Public attention and policy responses to COVID-19 pandemic
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Ganslmeier, Michael; Poutvaara, Panu - 2020
Early non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) significantly reduced the death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, there are vast differences in how quickly governments implemented NPIs. In this paper, we analyze the role of public attention, measured as the share of daily Google searches in a...
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What drives financial development? : a meta-regression analysis
Doucouliagos, Chris; Haan, Jakob de; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2020
This paper offers a meta-regression analysis of the literature on the drivers of financial development. Our results based on 1900 estimates suggest that institutional quality is positively correlated to both private sector credit and stock market capitalization (both as share of GDP). Domestic...
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Perception vs. experience : explaining differences in corruption measures using microdata
Gutmann, Jerg; Padovano, Fabio; Voigt, Stefan - 2019
-section of countries. Most studies on the determinants or the effects of corruption rely on indicators of corruption perception … corruption perception is primarily informed by experience with corruption, these two types of indicators should be very highly … examine the variation in individual corruption perception that cannot be explained by individual corruption experience alone …
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Global evidence on the determinants of public trust in governments during the COVID-19
Gozgor, Giray - 2020
Using the Worldwide COVID-19 Attitudes and Beliefs dataset covering 108,918 respondents from 178 countries, the paper examines the determinants of public trust in governments during the COVID-19. It is found that older and healthy people trust more to their governments. Education is negatively...
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Institutions, trade and development : a quantitative analysis
Beverelli, Cosimo; Keck, Alexander; Larch, Mario; … - 2018
We propose and apply methods to quantify the impact of national institutions on international trade and development. We are able to identify the direct impact of country-specific institutions on international trade within the structural gravity framework. Our approach naturally addresses the...
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In-group bias in preferences for redistribution : a survey experiment in Italy
Bruni, Riccardo; Gioffré, Alessandro; Marino, Maria - 2023
Using a new survey and experimental data, we investigate how information on inequality and immigration affects preferences for redistribution in Italy. Our randomized treatments show that preferences for redistribution are generally inelastic to information. However, we find that provision of...
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