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Heckman, James J. (contributor); … - 2005

This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and to supplement failing ones. Targeted early...

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Whot voted for Brexit? : a comprehensive district-level analysis

Becker, Sascha O.; Fetzer, Thiemo; Novy, Dennis - 2017

On 23 June 2016, the British electorate voted to leave the European Union. We analyze vote and turnout shares across 380 local authority areas in the United Kingdom. We find that exposure to the EU in terms of immigration and trade provides relatively little explanatory power for the referendum...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646454

Persistent states : lessons for Scottish devolution and independence

Muscatelli, V. Anton; Roy, Graeme; Trew, Alex - 2022

dynamic state formation process in the context of Scotland within the UK. First, we review the recent research in economic … history on the persistence and evolution of such fundamentals. Second, we consider the history of Scotland both before and … fundamental persistence for current debates on the place of Scotland within the UK. …

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Caring for carers? : the effect of public subsidies on the wellbeing of unpaid carers

Costa-Font, Joan; D'Amico, Francesco; Vilaplana Prieto, … - 2022

evidence from a policy intervention, that universalized previously means-tested caregiving supports in Scotland, known as free …

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Contractual and organizational structure with reciprocal agents

Englmaier, Florian (contributor); … - 2008

Empirically, compensation systems generate substantial effort despite weak monetary incentives. We consider reciprocal motivations as a source of incentives. We solve for the optimal contract in the basic principal-agent problem and show that reciprocal motivations and explicit performance-based...

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Noblesse oblige? : determinants of survival in a life and death situation

Frey, Bruno S. (contributor); Savage, David A. (contributor) - 2008

This paper explored the determinants of survival in a life and death situation created by an external and unpredictable shock. We are interested to see whether pro-social behaviour matters in such extreme situations. We therefore focus on the sinking of the RMS Titanic as a quasi-natural...

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Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US? : selective features of immigration to four major OECD countries

Geis, Wido (contributor); Uebelmesser, Silke (contributor); … - 2008

Building on a new data set which is combined from national micro-data bases, we highlight differences in the structure of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all immigrants to the OECD world. Looking at immigrants by source...

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Bank of England interest rate announcements and the foreign exchange market

Melvin, Michael; Saborowski, Christian; Sager, Michael; … - 2009

Since 1997, the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has met monthly to set the UK policy interest rate. We examine evidence of systematic patterns in exchange rate movements on MPC days over the first decade of operation of the MPC. Daily data reveal significant differences in...

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How do migrants choose their destination country? : an analysis of institutional determinants

Geis, Wido; Übelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2008

For a long time, migration has been subject to intensive economic research. Nevertheless, empirical evidence regarding the determinants of migration still appears to be incomplete. In this paper, we analyze the effects of socio-economic and institutional determinants, especially labor-market...

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Surviving the Titanic disaster : economic, natural and social determinants

Frey, Bruno S.; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - 2009

The sinking of the Titanic in April 1912 took the lives of 68 percent of the people aboard. Who survived? It was women and children who had a higher probability of being saved, not men. Likewise, people traveling in first class had a better chance of survival than those in second and third...

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